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Sunday Baptism of the Lord. Dubois Mass and Palestrina Sicut cervus. Coffee then Mattins with Elgar Te Deum and Bach Christ unser Herr and the Bach prelude on the tune to follow. Met Dennis at Art gallery cafe and asked about Ridsdale Tate - they have some pictures. Evensong Stanford in G with 2 excellent soloists and Gardner Tomorrow shall be my dancing day. Good chants too Bairstow, Buck. Splendid organ playing from Charles. To Bettys for afternoon tea and saw a book about 1952 when I first went there aged 5! Dennis got train to Manchester and we walked back to b and b over footbridge past the new Wheel of York. Watched Antiques roadshow and Great Barrier Reef.

gListened to choral evensong from the St Pancras festival of contemporary church music. At St John's we sang Gibbons Short service and Pitoni Cantate domino and 2 hymns to tunes by Percy Buck who died in 1947.He was cathedral organist of Bristol and Wells and became Professor of Music at Dublin then London University. he was knighted in 1935. The tunes were "Gonfalon Royal" and "Martyns" - both very singable. We sang "Gonfalon Royal" to an Ascensiontide hymn at the cathedral last night and use it for "The royal banners forward go" at Passiontide. Adrian Adams played Psalm Prelude Set 1 no 1 by Herbert Howells - a favourite of Dad's although I don't think I ever played it in public! Liz was working in the garden and I fixed the water fixture (again). When I went to get bird seed out of the shed, found that the mice had attacked the fruit slabs for the birds. The birds like the seedballs the best! The garden is looking good with fine i...