The organist librarian

 Thursday jigsaw and set off for Chatham in good time. Lovely day. Hotel is very near M2 - noise in the night from the road. We both woke at 4. Spa treatment very invigorating scrub then shower and massage. Nearly fell asleep! Swim and sauna. LsiUk zoom went very well at 7. Big discussion about encounter next year some of it hardly helpful eg North Wales or a monastery an hour away from Salford by car! Dinner was Ok and met 2 Catenian couples.  Friday swim and good breakfast saw our new friends again. To Chatham Dockyard and visited 2 ships. Di d not attempt the steep stairs or the sub. Call the midwife tour was very good - a lot of walking and standing but the room with the sets excellent. Spent a lot in the rope shop - the ropery not working. RNLI museum very well done. Back in time for 4.30 full body massage very relaxing. Swim and sauna. The dinner was god if the service was slow. Chris Woodward from Wimbledon got me a hearing aid as I had forgotten to bring spares and the...

 Woke early. R4 on BBC singers and morning service. Played Willan on St Peter, Moore Barcarolle and Toccata. LJWhite prayer of St Richard of Chichester went well. Chose hymns for Advent and agreed to use Christmas ones from last year. Drove to NJ overground and underground to North Harrow. 3 flights of stairs. Al Salaam centre is still a building site! Huge sports area and theatre and prayer hall above. It is for everyone. Presented a copy of Laudato Si' and mentioned petition to save Interfaith network for the UK. Chatted to several people. 30 there. Nice samosas. Got home quite tired. Liz had been to messy church. Young musician semi final - wrong 3 got through! Judges are rubbish!  Monday chat to Ann, rang GP as they had not rung back but Xray was on system so straight to Mayday and crown is in my stomach thank goodness. Wait another week. Swim. Liz went to pack medals. Cancelled aerobics and took notes at Colette's meeting. Powerpoint about Salford. Had trouble with sound ...

 Wednesday to Glyn Close to collect the car and swim. Nice chat to Sam. It seems beofre Covid they had one man who went round the 5 centres each week to fix things. Now they have to bring in people each time! Our road looks great and disabled markings done. Drafted letter to bishop and environmental lead about Laudato Si' centre. Heythrop AGM and talk by Daniel Soars on the grammar of God. BBC Singers evensong with orchestra and centenary concert.  Thursday no swim as went to pick up Cathy to go to the funeral. She thought it was next week. Took Liz to Rose's. Got little cakes for my birthday. Art and very good progress. I only have one picture on paper the Cezanne for the library exhibition. Delivered letters about the multiple occupancy proposal at no 47 to Canham Road. No 20 knew about it but had done nothing. Joyce will send email. Badge posted to Karen Thompson. Notes from the encounter circulated. 22 at LSiUK which may be a record. We edited the notes in reply to 7 quest...

 Thursday confusion over time of train bus and tube but we were a few minutes late so paid more and got next one. From Piccadilly walked to get bus and arrived at Luther King House. It's clean and there's a lounge and trees and it's quiet and cheap. Large library. Congregational foundation. To Bridgewater Hall and ate at Society where you order your food on your phone. Very nice but noisy. Pre concert talk with Colin Matthews and Kahchun Wong the Halle's new conductor, Britten Prince of the pagodas suite and Mahler 1. Good seats at the side so we could see conductor. He is brilliant! We have a double bed against the wall so we swopped over.  Friday to the Whitworth gallery textiles and history of life drawing. Nice garden Coffee and scones in lovely cafe. The breakfast was large! To Manchester museum which has been refurbished. The exhibition Wild showed excellent work with kids and we visited the natural history galleries and vivarium. To St Ann's where Alex from G...