The organist librarian

I did not go to Hurtado centre but took the decorations off the tree and packed it all away. The small tree and crib stay up until Candelmass. Caught up on TV - carols from King's and a survey of the 50 years of the TV programme also the 1954 broadcast with plummy posh accents. Midnight from Arundel and the cathedral on radio and the Queen's garden with Alan Titchmarsh. To vespers and Mass for Baptism of the Lord. Programme on Hampton Court and the christening of Edward VI.

Programme on the Queen's garden by Alan Titchmarsh.

A fairly quiet day at the library and Oliver Brett played at Mass. We enjoyed the Last Night on TV - we have been to it several times when Liz's Dad was a steward at the Royal Albert Hall. It was an interesting programme with Joshua Bell playing the violin and Anna Netrebko singing splendidly. Alan Titchmarsh gets on one's nerves - he says very little about the music! Jiri Belohlavek is such a nice man and he coped well with conducting and giving the speech. It's annoying that the choirs in Glasgow, Carrickfergus and Wales were again not named.