The organist librarian

Welcome back Solomon I have surpassed thee! It was so good to see you at Mass again but please do not overdo it! To work and it was quiet so caught up on admin prior to our week in Germany with Ann and Paul. In the car enjoying the new Cathedral CD of Palestrina Lamentations. The weather was 4 seasons in one day including squalls of snow and sunshine. The library was cold so we were wearing our coats. There was one unfortunate episode when a member of staff took a fan heater out of the study room to warm up the staff room and did not offer an alternative heater. Mind you the person concerned was wearing a short sleeved shirt and no coat! Liz spent the day after attending morning prayer cleaning and preparing for the vigil. I made copies of the prayers for Holy week for the servers and publicity for the interfaith group. I arrived at the cathedral at 5.30 p.m. for the rehearsal. I checked my route up to the gallery where Liz, Lerone and I lit hundreds of nightlights right round the buil...

Friday's choir practice went well and we have a practice on Monday to work on the carols. Worked Saturday and the reading group met and went out for lunch at Antipasto. I went along at 12 and ordered rigatoni and tiramisu. It came quickly so I was back at the library at 1 so Elizabeth could go along. There were 12 at lunch and it only cost £10 as Graham organised half-price! To Brompton oratory where I met Liz. Rose vestments but the priest did everything including the readings and the psalm read without response. He also stands at the high altar with his back to us. Very unimpressed by it all. The homily was good but the same delivery for everything meant that it all went by in a blur! To the Royal Albert Hall and got parked near the hall. Robert Dean was on good form although the jokes were pretty bad. What do you get if you drop an organ down a mine shaft? A flat minor. And if you drop the Albert Hall on an army base? A flat major. It was a fun concert and we were wearing our br...