The organist librarian

To training on security - 4 of us went and reactions differed. We will need to review our procedures and shred lots of paper! To the cathedral for the first of the Cardinal's lectures. Sat next to a lady from Our Lady of Victories, Kensington where we were married and also saw Elizabeth Simon from Southfields and Andrew who was on the Orthodox spirituality course with me. Lots of noisy protesters outside and their noise rather worked against their anti-war cause. Problems with the P.A. system. Tony Blair spoke really well on "Faith and globalisation" and the work of his new Foundation for interfaith. The Abbot of Worth, Jonathan Aitken, etc were there.

Swimming pool not open at 7 a.m. nobody had a key! Chatted for a while to Raphael and David and then got to work early. Only 55 emails to read! Had been another incident on Friday involving teenagers. Security guard is with us until August. To Tai chi. Watched University challenge, Book quiz and Round the Horne on TV.

Apologies to anyone who felt excluded by the new restrictions. This was not my intention and I am happy to invite anyone to read my blog. I suppose Dennis is right that giving out too much information could be a problem.

The security guard arrived at the library today and he seems fine. This measure has been introduced until November and I think we may have turned a corner on this one with the kids one of whom wanted to know why she could not use the computer. I pointed out that apologising now was a bit late and the consequence of her rudeness was that she would have to wait until her parents had responded to our letter which has been held up the postal strike. To chorus where Mark brought great enthusiasm to Carmina Burana. Friday was a peaceful day with autumn glow in the evening in the park after a murky start and choir practice not very well attended. Still we went through all the music for this month.