The organist librarian

16.9.17 Early start and 2 stops for coffee and snacks and icecream to get to Seville. Gloria the guide and group photo taken outside bullring. A good tour of the huge cathedral third largest in the world after St Peter's and St Paul's. Walked through former Jewish quarter and Santa Cruz area. Very nice modern hotel. Tea. To Flamenco show with dinner which was not that great but the dancing and playing including a Carmen sequence were excellent. Sangria on our return to the hotel.

Wednesday Louise arrived with the boys and I looked after Seán while they went to get a grown up car seat for Ciarán. At first he was a bit unhappy but had his milk and rice cake and settled down to playing quite happily. He will be walking before he is one at this rate! Ciarán enjoyed being in the garden and announced the little house is No.24 and Grandad lives in a shop! We went to the prom. The talk featured Timothy West about playing Falstaff so I asked a question about Verdi's version and how Falstaff treated his followers. It was most interesting. At the prom we had Elgar and Walton's Falstaff plus lovely works by Bantock for cello and orchestra and Tchaik 4 well played by BBC National of Wales under Jan van Steen. Thursday more games including monster bingo then they went to Angela's. We will not see them for 2 weeks as they are going to Ireland and not coming to Provincial President's Sunday after all as they go to Stansted early on the Monday. Worked on Liz...