The organist librarian

 Lie-in. Cough not as bad. SM, S and B. Programme about ENO staging of War requiem worth  seeing again. Behind the scenes at the coronation also a repeat. Ghosts in the ruins effective 60th anniverary work in Coventry cathedral by Nitin Sawhney. Ann from Chelsea and Westminster rang about whole day there June 23rd. Are you being served secrets. Drawers off is back. By royal appointment Steinway pianos and jewellery.  Tuesday woke at 8.45! SM, S and B Visitation. Dennis got records from the GP and brought them round. Chat to Henry. Applied to Guys again for my records! Quiet time. Faith, Hope and Charity an amazing NT at home play. Excellent  webinar on Faiths and fossil fuel treaty. Come dine with me. Bakeoff professionals.  Wed have lost 2 pounds. Cough. SM, S and B. Mass from Addiscombe found it on Facebook in the end. Fr Jackson hard to understand (very boomy) he did not read the names of the deceased Catenians. Must make sure that happens next year! Nice cha...

 Swam 20 ended up in fast lane as large lady knocked my foot. B, SM and S. Took cake to school.  Swam 20. To Addiscombe for Fr Denis Paul's funeral which was lovely and so nice to see old friends again! Fr Denis was a really kind and caring priest. Moynihans, Fr Peter, Bishop Paul, Dixies, Sr Sheila, Canon Jim, Tony Charlton. Very nice lunch! Sent in Big Plastic count results. To Balham circle meeting (first time in person). Bedford Hotel which used to have a bad reputation! Bar then upstairs. AGM and meeting - not many there but all very friendly. Pizza. I thought some of the jokes were a bit questionable especially about Jews. Home on train so a wait. Home 10.40 p.m. Tuesday SM, S. To coffee with Fr Antonio - such an interesting conversation! B translation of the relics of Dominic. Trouble in mind. Fantastic performances in a memorable play about racism. National Theatre at home. Animal park x 3 - turns out these are last year's programmes. Chelsea flower show. Wednesday B, ...

 Swam 20. Fr Tom was there again! SM and S. B. Liz went to have arm X-rayed. Platinum jubilee horse show. Jay Blades on Hackney history. Decided not to go to Cornhill to hear Jane Watts play. Edward de Quay has come to life! Seems I sent him too many emails! SMITF meditation. LSi' institute Emmanuel Katangole on Who owns the land? Liz went to UCM. Fell asleep watching Animal Park.  Tuesday 17th SM. To Newton Honda so the mirror and light could be replaced. £136! When I went to collect it it was cleaned and a bar of chocolate! To St Hugh Bermondsey for SPIDIR course - Danny, Antonio and Chris there and met Breda and others. Richard Carter was so inspiring. Very hot. Lecture on The Fountain of life by Prof Ellen Davis. Clare came. B. St Paul's conversation about science and religion Tom McLeish. Theatrical knights on TV. R and B prayer for abused and survivors. Jay Blades in Hackney. Wednesday SM, S and B. Gresham how to vale stocks. Finished jubilee painting! To cathedral for i...

 Enjoyed the exercises at UNACC. Could not get into Catenian AGM no zoom link! Minutes of yesterday's meeting and wrote to Bishop John. Folia concert from Hampton - the encore was the highlight! Gresham Prof Bourke on sexual abstinence. Synod reports from dioceses do not mention green issues at all. Some dioceses have not yet produced reports. Saturday Richard in St James park. B. Catenian conference online from Eastbourne. Remembering Bob Cooper, Mike McCarthy and Brendan O'Connell in Oz who died this year. Helen main speaker - a woman! She co-ordinates university chaplains. Her stats are interesting more women, more BAME, more mature students. To St Andrew Ham Common. A frustrating drive as Liz could not navigate with her phone! I got rather cross! Memorial for Pat Stephens with recordings, songs and speeches most of which I could nto hear as the mike was only used at the end!! Nice to see Stephen, Steve and Caroline Sewry, Judy, David, Chris and David, Betsy, Ray Carter 0 so...

 Friday woke at 5 and then 9! SM and S. To UNACC chair based exercises and we were filmed. Liz came for lunch. I was interviewed for the film.  Here are my notes: Born in Cheltenham 3 months old to Johannesburg. In 1952 my Mum brought me to England to meet my grandparents. I loved it - it was so green! We listened to BBC world service and my Dad bought the 3 records. He was organist and choir master at St Mark’s, Yeoville which had a good choir so we sang many of the anthems sung at the Coronation. Vaughan Williams introduced this hymn for the first time and this has been used many times since then. He also composed O taste and see, an exquisite miniature. Dad had the service books with all the music included. Walton composed Orb and sceptre and this is the organ arrangement. We would go to the cinema every Saturday so we saw the Pathe newsreels and films of the coronation. There was no TV in South Africa at that time. I started collecting books about the Royal family. In 1955...

 Tuesday SM, S and B. LMP zoom harpist. State opening of Parliament with Charles standing in for the Queen. To Royal Society of Medicine. Stan and Tom were there already but John and Richard were late! A lovely lunch. I had sea bass and summer pudding. £45. Hard to hear some of the lively chat! Decided not to go to Tate Britian as my knee was tired. Gresham Loyd Grossman on Bernini and the building of Rome. Bake off. Freeze the fear. Imagine Miriam Margolys.  Wed. Liz to Guys. It was a very long day! SM, S and B. Piano trio Cavatina competition from Wigmore Hall. Michael Traynor's second zoom on Acts. To St Mark Woodcote for delightful concert Emily Earl violin and Ben du Toit Canadian Double Bass Piazzola, Nicholas Walker and Temp Hauta-aho who is Finnish. Evensong BBC singers. Croydon climate action zoom was good. SSG Kevin on shadowy figures in the Gospels. Interesting programme on Dickens by Armando Ianucci. Repair shop and Sewing bee.  Thursday swam 20 it was quieter...

  Lovely day no more jerseys? I could not find my copy of Meditation on Brother James's Air by Harold Darke which I rehearsed 2 weeks ago so I played In green pastures by Darke and prelude on "Bread of heaven" by Andrew Moore. We sang Brother James's Air and I played Easter hymn from "Cavalliera Rusticana" by Mascagni. My hearing aids seen to be affected by wax so I might have to get my ears syringed. Loved BBC4 programme from St John's Cambridge about George Herbert. B and Leeds cathedral Mass.  New to me "The happy birds Te Deum sing 'Ti's Mary's month of May". It is sung to the Lincolnshire poacher. It's not great poetry! Last hymn at Upper Norwood today! To Qou Vadis at St John's excellent piano duets Imma Seltadi and Nigel Clayton. It was difficult to hear Diana Krasovska - she needed a mike as she was moving about the building. We were invited to walk around and look at the pictures while having tea and cakes. Debussy,...

Yesterday I watched the first part of Mahogany by Weill from Parma - not sure I will continue! 

 No mention of Easter on radio 4 programme from Belfast! I played Bach variations on Christ lag in todesbanden and Thalben Ball and Ridout on This joyful Eastertide which we sang. Nice trio in verse 2. Good start on Thomas's Platinum jubilee anthem. To pets service at St John's took Sir Henry and there were cats and dogs. We sang The heavens are telling (Ruth a lovely soprano voice) Lionel's anthem and Ridout Let us with a gladsome mind. Also Think of a world without any flowers. BBC young dancer, New artists musicians, Prisoner 33 about Oscar Wilde in prison. Very moving.  Monday Bank holiday. Took Liz go station to get trains and taxi to Aylesford for servers mass and she got a lift home.  Volunteered at the Migrants Mass at WC. Very colourful. The Hounslow group were good but the backing was far too loud. The quartet from the Ukranian Catholic cathedral sang 3 beautiful anthems and the Ukranian chaplain thanked us all. Great to see old friends Dominic Robinson Carolyn...