Decorations

 Friday Sm and S. B did not livestream for some reason. Decorations down in front garden, hall and dining room. Tablet has letter by Bob Turner. St Martin's tea chat. Excellent Southwark group meeting working on our statement re the synod. I cooked curry with aubergine. Delicious. Started to watch Don't look up. 

Saturday Rain. SM walk in Lambeth and S. B. To St John's for a lovely concert by the Phacelia ensemble. Cecilia Bignall is a fine cellist and her arrangement of Scarborough Fair was magical. Antonia Kessel on violin and Edward Bale viola. Mozart Divertimento K563 full of delights. Adrian's Christmas cake. Well attended. Took Liz to leisure centre to check on Healthwise scheme. Richard Coles Winter walk to Rievaulx Abbey. More notes for the Southwark group. Belmont vespers X 2. The Tablet this week reviewed Procession which I found on Netflix. Appalling the way priests treated boys and did not believe their complaints. Worth watching. Something must be done. Root and Branch Synod have 4 sessions on zoom about this. Even their parents did not believe them!

Baptism of the Lord. Baptism of the Lord. Played Sumsion cradle song and Bach Christ the Lord to Jordan came. We sang New year Carol arranged Britten. Repeated the communion hymn and people sang the second time! 4 first communions. Delighted that the Croydon nurse was supported by the tribunal for wearing her small cross. Sunday evenings are a delight! Green planet, Call the midwife, pottery throwdown. St Martin in the Fields Epiphany carols and watching again a great programme on being a male ballet dancer. Monday SM S and B. OLd mattress into back bedroom. Spidir committee. Excellent launch of Southern dioceses network once a month. 48 there. New mattress came but we cannot get it up the stairs! Watched Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes. David got the mattress upstairs for us. It is very comfortable and firm! Also the new pillows. Belmont vespers.Only connect, University challenge, Van Gogh on the BBC and an excellent programme based on his letters with Dominic Cumberbatch.

Tuesday S, SM and B. LMP chat with the lovely Leia and Ruth Rogers. Discussion about Korngold's violin concerto. Essex discussion on equality and racism. Quiet time. FJ has died a sad loss. Posted booklet to Martin Davis. Updated Lifting the lid article for Spidir. Synodality and restorative justice principles from the US. Bit of Belmont. Gresham Prof McGlade on the value of nature. Caught up on Bishop of Croydon sermon at Southwark cathedral and Sam Wells on O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.


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