The organist librarian

Both swam and Mass. Feast of St Joseph. Signed book of condolence at New Zealand house. The staff were really nice. Don McCullin's photographs at Tate Britain raise so many questions. Should war and famine be recorded? What about violent films? Don't they breed more violence? Images change minds and can lead to the end of wars. Similarly the huge donations in the face of famines. But why are root causes not addressed? New lady at quiet time who was in India for 5 years and did a lot of yoga. Antiques road show, Sewing bee, Bake off for cancer, Only connect. Sorted magazines. 

A St Joseph from Bangladesh! To work on Saturday and a quiet day doing housekeeping things like deleting lots of items not found in the stocktake - dull! At Vespers we sang the O antiphon in Latin - what a thrill to sing that! I put our more leaflets for "Understanding Islam" - the poster is still up! To Mass and Philip and I were the servers for Fr Dwayne. Deacon Ed gave an excellent homily about Joseph - not heard him preach before. On the radio we had Prokofiev's "War and Peace" from the Met and in the opera quiz an extract from "O holy night". Liz went to take Ann Marie to the airport and borrow her car over Christmas. Watched Monarchy programmes on TV - the Queen is amazing! Sunday to collect meat from the butcher in Addiscombe and Liz was thurifer at the solemn Mass with Bishop John Arnold. We sang "Hail blessed Virgin Mary" and "For Mary, mother of the Lord". Started with "Come thou redeemer of the earth" and ...