St Nicholas Day and the RSCM
To St Anne's Wandsworth for the Council Christian fellowship carol service. The preacher was good but wore a suit and pink tie. The Swaffield junior school choir sang 3 items unaccompanied and there were some growlers! They did not sing the congregational carols as nobody had given them the words! The Mayor read a lesson. Saw Sandra MacNiven and Neville Squires who is now church warden at St Mary Merton. His beard is quite gray! To Wandsworth Museum and had a long chat to Pat about the closure and her redundancy. Saw Barrie Temple's watercolours (Dawn was there - she volunteers at the library for the Englsih conversation group). Had a last look round the collection before it goes into store for at least a year. To Trafalgar Square where the tree is up but not yet lit. Such a queue in the Post Office I just bunged stamps on Ann's cards and posted them! To Westminster Abbey for 5 p.m. evensong. On Dec 6 1927 Sydney Nicholson founded the Royal School of Church music there. We ...