The organist librarian

A most enjoyable organists outing to St Mary Reigate and Hatchlands where the audio guide is excellent.Pat MacHugh transferred to Dulwich circle from Dublin. 

Took Henry to Crystal Palace park - the new cafe is very good and he enjoyed the dinosaurs and farm especially the meerkats and tortoises. To quiet time in hall as Adrian and Daniel were tuning organ. Superb Figaro from the Royal Opera House. What wonderful music and singing!

Monday mosaic, Peter Wright's last recital as director of music at Southwark including Messiaen, Bach, Vierne and Peeters Aria. Spidir committee. Both to Maidstone 800th meeting black tie dinner. Lots of dithering after the meal, Flame is not a charity and Barbara Stevens the guest speaker was not great. Took Henry to Crystal Palace park - the new cafe is very good and he enjoyed the dinosaurs and farm especially the meerkats and tortoises.

Played another new piece Meditation by Gabriel Dupont and Finlandia Liz's Dad's favourite. We sang Boyce Alleluia which fitted well with 4 children admitted to communion and 5 new Mothers Union members. Abandoned attempt to reach St Paul's cathedral for the lunchtime talk - train broken down at Blackfriars meant a long delay at London Bridge. listened to the final evensong from King's conducted by Stephen Cleobury. End of an era? A very calm evensong and Benediction at St John Sumsion ATB setting, Stanford Song of Wisdom, Howells Master Tallis' testament.

Mass at Anerley. To doctor only to find they think the appointment is next Friday which is not so. St Stephen Wallbrook for excellent recital by Laurence Lyndon-Jones Bach, Handel, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn and Fiesta by Emma Lou Diemer. He is going into data science but will keep playing. I hope he does. Welcoming at the cathedral - 40 Sardinian teenagers with orange packs which reminded me of migrant lifejackets! Nice to see Kate. Home to watch Wimbledon. A very pleasant party at Adrian and Terence Roberts lovely garden apartment. Delightful coffee concert by the Ruskin trio at St John's. Nicholas Bucknall clarinet and church warden, Kate Musker viola and David Elwin piano. Mozart, Bruch, Francaix and Schumann. It was lovely to watch their facial expressions and I was amused at the idea of Mozart playing skittles and composing at the same time! 2 of our servers were among those confirmed by Bishop John Sherrington at Mass. Victoria choir sang. Nice to see Fr Mikey Mags!...

Mass at Thornton Heath and a class came from school. Art and good progress. Mind, body, spirit. Gave Brendan Fitzgerald a lift to St Thomas the Apostle school, Nunhead for the Aspirations evening. Some very impressive students - Spanish, actor, musicians.

To Mass then Royal Academy for Felix Vallatton. Michael Moran led quiet day on fortitude. Played for High Mass for St Thomas at St John Upper Norwood. What a treat that organ is!

To Mass and Fr Stuart on his own. Henry came and would not go in paddling pool, We made chocolate cakes although the mixer scared him. Played and read stories and watched DVD. To quiet time and took Ann home. Checked music for tomorrow night. Wimbledon on TV. Watched part of Carmen live from the Royal Opera house. Strange production. 

We sang Prayer of St Richard of Chichester. L. J. White and I played Meditation on Slane by Thiman and Dubois Toccata. To Death cafe and very interesting conversation. Lovely that Bobbie Darbyshire came.Tidied up the patio so we could eat out. Nothing on TV so catching up on Couples come dine with me. Mosaic. Alessandro Bianchi from Lugano played a completely unfamiliar programme at Cornhill. Langlais and Germani were the only composers I had heard of! Quite interesting.

To Mass at Anerley and an excellent homily on not judging others from Fr Stuart. Seneca "We carry other's vices in our eyes and our own vices on our backs". Fitted very well with Chris Chapman on Unconscious bias in life on Monday! To the Architecture displays at V and A and sketched some superb South Indian instruments. Natural history museum Wildlife photographer of the year excellent. Delicious BBQ at Acton.Enjoyed Sean's assembly. The Foundling museum has an interesting display on Hogarth and noise. Listened to some Handel.At the Interfaith lunch we heard about Buddhist hospital chaplaincy. To British library to see Leonardo. Intrigued by Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery Misbehaving bodies at Wellcome. Good to see Canon Christopher and Deacon William Lo at Mass. Byrd 4 part Mass. Sacred Heart of Jesus. Scripture and Violence University of Cambridge Inter-faith programme at LSE. It was all a bit academic but David Ford on scriptural reasoning was good.

A hot and interesting day. The Great exhibition road festival offered perhaps too much! I started at Imperial College with dance and ballet then the sinfonietta accompanied an excellent young bass Jonathan? in Brahms 4 serious songs. Saw a simulation of dementia in the Body and Mind tent and signed up for an Imperial College investigation. The brass were excellent especially the final piece Human but it was very hot. Goethe Institute library is impressive and a display of love letters between Victoria and Albert. RGS Earth photos. To St Mary Balham for an excellent cooked lunch to celebrate Berni Excell's diaconal ordination. To Bloomsbury Baptist for Gordon Stewart. Excellent Bach and a dramatic Andrew Carter tribute to Francis Jackson. Incense at vespers for Peter and Paul. Ealing school choir at Mass - lovely Mawby and Palestrina. Also had a deacon, server taken ill, special minister being odd - you name it! But all went well in the end. Glad car was at Kent House as signal fai...