The organist librarian

Tim tog o home after a fantastic family holiday. Lovely clear day and can see Guernsey. We went to La Braque for a lovely breakfast - I had banana pancakes. Bruce joined us. It has been so good to see him and he is working hard. To NT bird watching hide. A and D returned by ferry - it took 23 hours. We returned cars and got flight without any problems arrived at 2.10 and taxi was there. In the end did not go to cathedral as unpacked and I went to Mass at Anerley and saw Fr Sunith and Stuart.

We set off in time for Liz to get a train from Kent House to go to Vespers. I heard the first 45 minutes of King's in the car including The Lamb and Britten New Year carol. The new carol by Thea Musgrave worked well. Not so sure about Joy to the world. The crib service and Christingle at St Michael's was awful. It was preceeded by a tape (this always annoy me). We sang quite a few carols but the sight of children tearing round the church looking for crib figures was not a happy one. Paul lost it at times suggesting that Jesus travelled on Santa's sleigh and confusing the Christingle symbols - 4 angels or 4 seasons. It just went on too long - nearly 90 minutes and I will certainly play for it again! I got to the station to find trains were every half hour so abandoned the plan to get to cathedral for 6 p.m. Mass and went to Anerley. Organ played OK and Fr Sunith mentioned me at the end. Fr Stuart remarked that I had sneaked in from the cathedral! I picked up Liz at West Nor...