The organist librarian

Swam, turned mattress.  Colour and vision at Natural History museum fascinating - some animals can see more colours than we can! Excellent Satie cabaret prom at Cadogan and perfect for sketching! Painters' paintings at National Gallery some lovely pictures but most of it is Nat Gallery stuff which one can normally see for free!  A fine prom from BBC Phil conducted by Storgards. Schumann violin concerto, Sibelius and Nielsen 5 with stunning playing from the percussion! Jorg Widmann Armonica not to my taste. Pre-Prom talk with Sir Robin Knox-Johnston Shakespeare and the sea. Miserable night and train delayed again. First score disaster - wrong Schumann score!  John tells me Fr Martin Plunkett, a rabbi and an imam were interviewed outside the cathedral and on the TV news on Sunday - excellent!

The Archdeacon Paul Wright led family eucharist - one child out of 18 present! He gave an excellent sermon on his job and resolving disputes in parishes. Hope John was listening! Bill raised the question of the Big lunch clash with first organ recital next June. I did raise this initially and did not get an answer. I played Darke on Brother James air, Andrew Moore and Karg-Elert Nun danket for our ruby wedding. We did sing The summons. Straight to St Paul's cathedral via Waterloo for Graham Usher's talk on Places of enchantment finding God in nature. He was vicar of Hexham and is now Bishop of Dudley. He spoke a lot about mountains. I commented that Peter would have whipped out his Blackberry at the Transfiguration as we live in a recording age. I also said the liturgy needs to convey something of the grandeur of God and he advocated more silence. It was most interesting.  Of all the wonderful places I have seen very seldom was I alone. The 3.30 prom featured the Qatar philhar...