The organist librarian

Sunday went as usual and I did some more reading resisting the temptation to go to the organ recital at Westminster central hall! Liz went to meet Louise at Westfield. Some of the choir were die to sing at St Paul's cathedral on Monday for the evensong to mark the anniversary of A & M but it was moved to Southwark cathedral. The demo at St Paul's caused it to be closed on health and safety grounds - £20,000 a day being lost but of course if the cathedral was free... yet again the church comes out looking bad. Later in the week Giles Fraser resigned as he was not prepared to condone the use of violence to eventually remove the protesters. Good for him! Monday we set off for Gatwick Liz having been up to Glyn close again as she found there were no lights on. The Aer Lingus flight went smoothly and we landed in heavy rain. Took taxis to go and see Joe and he appreciated it. At 3 p.m. we met up with a large collection of nuns and a few monks for the coach ride to Roscrea. We qu...

Liz and I are safely back from a delightful holiday in Ireland. We set off on Monday and parked the car at a garage near Gatwick. All went smoothly and our Ryanair flight even gained 15 minutes on the flight to Shannon. We picked up a small silver Peugeot hire car and set off for the delights of the Castle Oaks Hotel, Castleconnell. A beautiful bedroom, swim, sauna, steam room and jacuzzi before sumptuous 4 course dinner - the best Irish beef and smoked salmon. The next morning we were in the pool again before a full Irish breakfast complete with white and black puddings. Killahoe has a fine cathedral which encloses a High Cross and Ogham stone. We drove to the Cliffs of Moher. Magnificent views over the sea and bay. The new visitors centre built into the hillside had opened a fortnight before and the audio-visuals were excellent. We were lucky with the weather here. It does look as though there will be charges levied to enter the area. We paid 5 euros to park the car. We stopped at Ki...