Battersea community forum

A most interesting lunchtime meeting of the forum at Katharine Low settlement. How much we need a vision and one way might be through reminiscence groups and using smaller parks more! Shocked to hear about housing where living rooms are used as bedrooms - no wonder libraries are so important! The advice not to have more children is not heeded. To ENO to book for Turn of the screw using the voucher for the resold ticket for Peter Grimes which is to be on again. The computer crashed but got tickets! To National Portrait gallery for Gay icons which had some surprises notably Graham Taylor. No paintings in the exhibition but well done. I chose Britten and Pears. To chorus and finished early as conductor did not turn up. Celia laughing over Liz's remark that I could feed the American choral conductor - the idea is that 20 conductors come over and stay for a week and take part in the MacMillan. That would be most interesting especially if conductor was into church music.