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 Wednesday Blackfriars Smitf. Nice chat to Jane Crone CAFOD East Anglia. Sisters of St Andrew. Meditatio. Repair shop X 2. Played piano and jigsaw. Final session of Bread for the world and Lent course. Yet again Michael bowled a googly and did not address the wonderings at all.  Lovely singing. Call my agent.  Maundy Thursday up late. SMITF. Bit of Chrism from Southwark cathedral. Excellent lecture on the Arena chapel Padua. Adam Field and William Collinson at Portsmouth. Sam Wells at SMITF with choral scholars. Finished Michael's book. Mass from Belmont Abbey. To Caterham and the simple service went well. Jerry quoted Go to dark Gethsamene in his sermon. I played Wordsworth on the tune.  Good Friday. SMITF Morning song Walton Litany. Acton children's passion very well done and year 5 were great. Wintershall 2019 from Trafalgar Square. Left 12.45 service at 2 reproaches and To mock your reign. Excellent radio 4 programme on Rembrandt Ecce homo with Lucy Winkett and N...

  Nazareth community walk at the Olympic park, Blackfriars, retreat with Fr Michael Holman for Sisters of the assumption. He shared a moving article by Clare Gilbert. Mass for St Oscar Romero at St George's cathedral. Nelson was pleased with drawing. Earth hour so lights off and candles lit. We joined Allendale churches together and compline from Acton and from there. The radio 4 morning service had a good young preacher but was spoilt by 2 pop songs. Palm Sunday played Parry on Rockingham, Bach Passion chorale and Kauffman Valet. Tears of grief Bach at the end. We sang Drop drop slow tears and Sing my tongue to Pange lingua. Watched some of Upper Norwood, Blackfriars and St Mary's cathedral Sydney where they had the full sung service and not a mask in sight! Did minutes of 2 meetings. Death cafe for an hour. Dan Soper's St John passion to which Liz contributed. Come dine with me. Stainer Crucifixion from St John's. SSG evening prayer. La Voix humaine. End of first seas...

 Blackfriars. A long day on zoom with IFnetwork - a lot to take in. Day of recollection so we had silence at 12 and we shone our torches at the door at 8 but nobody else in the street did! Nelson forgot the Brague so to Glasgow for discussion with Cardinal Fitzgerald who was in my breakout room. Delightful talk about the Abbey with Dr John Hall and he answered my question really well mentioning Mark and Canon Christopher and Rabbi Julia Neuberger. Drawers off. Gresham lecture on spying for Queen and country Robert Cecil and the modern period.  Tuesday Blackfriars. An excellent retreat morning on truth at Belmont and Ignatian spirituality with Rosemary Moffat. Henry and Ann-Marie brought us delicious birthday cake from Ann-Marie's 40th. Bed changed. Repair shop and Drawers off. Fr Tom rang. Vespers from Belmont Annunciation. SMITF Bread for the world and Lent sharing group. They are having a Palm procession! Nobody else is? Tom |Winpenny playing at St Alban's and Callum Alger p...

 Whitlock Two Fantasie-chorals played by Mark Jones at Holt, Norfolk - quite difficult. Drawers off won by the wrong person! Callum Alger playing FJ on Love unknown. Canon Mark Oakley on Faith and poetry. Saturday Zoom with Colette and J and P folk about plans for climate crisis events. Blackfriars. Nazareth community walk down Brick Lane with a dancer and on ordinand. Fascinating talk by William McVicker on what an organ consultant does. Vespers from Belmont. Brague drawing Nelson never spoke to me so I did some work and gave up - too many chatterboxes there. Tuesdays are better. I am still unhappy with my drawing. Grayson's art club annoying. Sunday Back to playing at Caterham. The church felt so cold having been indoors for weeks! The livestream sounds good and the Brahms Herzliebster Jesu and Bach Fantasia in C minor are good especially considering I have only had a piano to play and no pedals! We sang Ah holy Jesu and Lent prose. Good to be back! As my s.d. said going to ...

 St Patrick's day.  Some of SMITF. Chat to Ann. Do we really need a ladder? Shed could be a smaller one. Excellent Belmont Abbey retreat on listening as a church which we are not good at! Meditatio. Sion centre Rabbi Alexandra Wright on racism and the curse of Ham. Very good. Croydon hearing rang so asked about ear wax and I am having it done privately on Monday in West Wickham. New belt arrived. Drawers off. Vespers at Belmont. SMITF Bread for the world and a challenging sermon from Sam Wells and Lent group. Watched the rest of News of the World.  Thursday Blackfriars and SMITF still disturbed about Sam Wells' sermon last night. Good chat to Clare. Changed earwax removal to April to match Guys appointment. Watched Live simply seminar. David Castleton on curiosities in churchyards and Holy wells. LMP with Howard Shelley and Rachel Rogers zoom. Chat with Rab in Scotland and Jane. Liz recording RSCM Passion bits. Drawers off. Vespers of St Joseph from Belmont. 5th session o...

 Chat to Caterham folk. Henry and Ann Marie delivered a cream tea and picked up his 4th birthday cakes. Delicious. Played piano and worked on jigsaw which is hard. Gonville and Caius compline. Frick curator on Houdon statue. Channel 4 dispatches on incinerators. Much discussion about Clapham common demo and police response. Liz lit a candle last night. Louise incensed. I looked up last year's Holy Week as I could not remember much - a lot of it at the cathedral with the Cardinal. Lecture on English reformation. Lovely roast beef dinner and Yorkshire from Conquering Hero pub. Final of pottery throw down. Antiques roadshow.  Monday Blackfriars and SMITF. Richard Carter replied to my enquiry about Nazareth companions. Come dine with me. Laudato Si London group getting bigger. Parked at station, train cancelled so got to Guys at 3.20 straight in as nurse met me at the door. Urodynamics was not as bad as expected. Some discomfort. Unfortunately I did not take my socks off and they ...

 Liz off early to Guys. Blackfriars and STMIF at the right times! Callum Alger playing Buxtehude. Excellent zoom from Birmingham interfaith action on the incinerator.  Eleanor Parker on Vikings in mediaeval churches. Fratelli tutti webinar Pax Christi. Zoom LSi and we saw action platform for the 7 year programme. Drawers off. Quite tired. The Global healing was good. Started watching NT Cat on a hot tin roof. The Shard. Friday Liz early start again. Her paraproteins down from 77 to 4 and weight loss is water from legs so that's good. Blackfriars, SMIF Morning song. Cat on a hot tin roof from Young Vic NT at home very well done. Good chat to Mick. Gonville and Caius Anne Page an excellent recital. Drawers off won by Steph! Briefly at zoom post yesterday - 400 events worldwide. Mark Jones playing Howells at Holt, Zoom launch of Patricia Kelly's book on theology. Grayson's art club. Saturday lovely Nazareth walk Tower of London and All Hallows. Blackfriars. Noel rang and I joi...

 Tuesday Blackfriars, SMITF, delightful zoom LMP with Simon Weir about mikes and recording and cellist Sebastian, King's Lynn minster organ. Covid tests delivered and collected because of Brazilian strain locally. The fourth trug assembled while listening to Charles Francis playing at Emmanuel church Wyde Green. He's good! Quiet time. Bargue drawing but I got tired standing so much. Bidding room. Drawers off. Antigone NT at home fantastic. Meghan and Harry interview with Oprah - they are telling it like it is and it's a huge loss for us.  Wednesday Liz to Guys her paraproteins are down from 77 to 4 and the weight loss is water from her legs. Belmont retreat on listening to each other was excellent and included Samaritans. Rails fitted next to back door and in bathroom. Did washing and changed the bed. Meditatio, Spidir supervision group zoom. Cleared downstairs toilet. Bidding room. Drawers off. Bread for the world and Lent group. Southwark retreat weeks 3 and 4. Sheila Han...

 Woke at 5 then slept to 8.30. Nazareth community walk in Crane park, Teddington with Richard's brother and dog. Blackfriars. Daniel Cook launched London organ day at Durham in style with Darke and Elgar. To St Thomas's for 1 p.m. hearing test. Not had one for 4 years and deterioration in right ear particularly so I am to have new aids but first wax must be removed. It's good Liz got the ball rolling. Everyone wearing masks on train and buses. Lots of flats around the power station. Fascinating film about the rebuild of King's Cambridge and Robert Quinney playing Mendelssohn very fast! Francesca Massey at Rochester excellent JSB, Reubkhe, Dupre and Leighton. Did some more jigsaw. Watched The white tiger - I read the book some years ago.  Sunday woke at 6 email to Xavier. Slept again. Blackfriars, Caterham sound very low, impressive baritone singing at Upper Norwood, Caterham zoom - lots of kids and Peregrine was there. Made another trug. Grayson's art club. The edge...

 Tuesday, We both attended an excellent Lymphoma Action workshop. Blackfriars, STMIF. David at the Frick. Zoom Lourdes folk and Fr Brian and zoom with Karin about networking after GH. Brague drawing went well although Liz copped out as expected. Very tired. I did have a short walk outside to escape all these zooms. It's a sin episode 1. Recorded a video for Martin How's 90th birthday in April.  Wed wierd dream about boys attacking deacon after confirmation and a Great Dane stealing my paper! Blackfriars. Excellent Belmont retreat on listening to the Word. Meditatio. Did the washing. Made a trug. Sion centre Rabbi Jeff Berger on Esther and Purim. Drawers off about life drawing and Bidding room. Excellent talk by Fr Augusto to ACTA. St Martin's Bread for the world and concentrated on Nicodemus. It's a sin very well done.  Thursday How nice! The fox had spilled a lot of the food bin contents over the pavement. It's a bit odd as I am sure the handle was up which locks t...