Bruce

 Thursday Oct 23 woke at 6 and then 9.30. When  I came down the stairs and saw a man in a coat carrying Ocado bags into the kitchen so I said “Ive got 8 empty Ocado bags for you” and got them out of the cupboard. He said “Oh no I’m not from Ocado I’ve come to put in a stair rail!” “Oh good” said I “hello I’m John” and shook his hand. And it’s a great improvement especially for me.To art and still copying outlines. Hstoric service in the Sistine chapel . BBC news people would not shut up during the historic Sistine chapel service and kept on getting things wrong! Oh for Richard Dimbleby! Watch the video on Vatican media live. Great singing! BBC commentary from the Sistine chapel service “that was a reading from the Epistle to the Romans by the foreign secretary”. Some missive! Another classic 20 minutes on You tube of the cars and the outside of St Paul's and no King and Queen! I found a video from the Royal channel of part of the service from St Paul's outside the walls and royal walkabout. Aerobics. Cheltenham prayer online. Animators meeting. Henry and Dennis came and gave Henry the Egyptians book and the blue lava lamp from my study. "You're the best Grandad ever" was the response. We had pizza and ice cream when Bruce arrived. His birthday tomorrow. The Tablet has published my second letter about Nostra aetate.

Friday Unacc . Liz to servers anniversary dinner which she enjoyed. To Christian Muslim Forum at Regent's Park mosque with Ibrahim Mogra, Helen Paynter, the bishop of Willesden and James Holland. Good speeches on the far right and nice dinner. Went on a bit long as table discussions were reported on. Home by 10.30. Pretty tired.

Saturday woke 6.30. Jolley walked around St Katharine's dock where he now lives and talked about autumn. He is 31. Hurtado zoom for 30 minutes. Spidir quiet day at All Saints. Antonio did a great job. I thought it started 10.30 when it was actually 10 a.m. The labyrinth puzzled me for a while but I worked it out. Coloured in 3 pictures and made 2 crosses out of clay. Taize and lit candles. It was a lovely day. To Anerley. I sang HOly virgin at the right speed and wa s left on my own so I walked out. The homily was unintelligable and Fr J is not cleansing his hands before giving communion. Seems the servers dinner helped a bit and Bishop Paul was friendly. Paul B is fed up with Swk. Strictly. Mastermind X 2.

Sunday Back at St James Riddlesdown. Hill and Norman and Beard 1952. Like most vestries items for other seasons stand ready. I played Thiman and Tambling on Slane, Archer on “All for Jesus” Buxtehude Passacaglia and Toccata in C, Howells Sine nomine at communion. Fr Grant very good sermon and welcoming. It was good to hear Sir Keir Starmer appreciating music on Private passions on radio 3 and saying more must be done to help musicians wanting to play in Europe. BBC Cardiff singer of the world concert. Katarina Karneus at 60 still wonderful! Antiques roadshow.