Mary Crinnegan RIP

To St Chad's to play for Mary's funeral. There was a good turnout and the grandchildren all did well. The first thing was to find the new on/off switch which is inside the organ! The blocks I left there years ago to raise the stool had gone! All went reasonably well. We took Josie to Beckenham crematorium where we had Irish recordings and then to the Surprise for a very pleasant lunch and met lots of Addiscombe and South Norwood folk. To the pre Prom talk by Matthew Rowe on the B minor Mass, Harry Bicket's professional chorus were almost unrelentingly LOUD. Soloists were good especially Matthew Rose and Iestyn Davies the countertenor.