A lovely Sunday

There was a baptism at Coulsdon - Autumn a lovely 8 month old who had been very ill. I played Arthur Wills's Lullaby for a royal prince, some Andrew Moore and Mendelssohn Song without words in E. I didn't think the Venetian gondala song suitable! Chat to Jill Cliff about the magazine. we are to try a half hour with the girls after Sunday service which avoids me going down there again on a Wednesday or early on a Friday. Listened to Roberto Alagna's Desert Island discs (his second wife died) and Just a minute. Liz had been shopping in Croydon. To Geffrye Museum in Shoreditch to see the excellent photographs of Ethelburga tower in Battersea and Newlyn copper. The herb garden and formal gardens are delightful and it was very sunny. The smell of rosemary and thyme very strong. They even have hyssop and valerian! Swopped buses to get to Museum of London to see the excellent history of Anti-Apartheid movement exhibition. Walked to St Paul's cathedral through the lovely Paternoster Square for organ recital by Norman Harper. An unusual programme of Jacques Boyvin, Alan Ridout Nativity dances, Thomas Hyde's Lucis creator and Ride of the Valkyries. Chris,Peter, Michael and Martin all there and a good audience mostly tourists. Bus and train home very quickly so TFL came up trumps despite one wrong but of information about bus stops at London Bridge!