The organist librarian

Swam, Mass. Emma has knee problems. Delivered some St John's leaflets in Canham Road - some gardens had dodgy steps. Facebook comments on the Catena letter. To Westminster Abbey for a service about Christians in the Middle East. Reflections including Prince Charles, Sayed Ali Razawi, the Patriarch of Jerusalem. Excellent sermon from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Great to have the Coptic and Syrian orthodox choirs.

Lie-in and to mosaic. 2 hours to do 3 stars! Came home for lunch. To National Gallery to see the wonderful Lotto portraits for free. Archbishop Justin Welby spoke well on Encountering God at St Martin's in the Fields. Watched Lego masters. 

To Kent House to get 7.43 train to Bromley and then on to Canterbury East. £15.10 senior return. The course itself was free on my student card which nobody checked! Walked from Canterbury East to Christ Church University campus which is impressive. Turned out we were in the Maxwell Davies building, The conference was based on the B.A. church music course and it was interesting to meet some of the students. Huw Morgan spoke about his unaccompanied Lenten setting, Stephen Barker told us about St Stephen's Canterbury, Andrew Larner on an educational model (Cairán is very advanced) Michael Chandler and David Dewar on beauty. Christian Griffiths from Monash Melbourne on Trinitarian model. Colin Davey talked about the RSCM survey -  we heard about some of the ridiculous requests for wedding music - Star Wars, Sister Act, Benny Hill theme, Doctor Who! And equally bad for funerals! Chris Price who sings tenor in Canterbury cathedral choir told us about the enthronement of the Archbishop....

Louise arrived with Seán and we went to St Gertrude's South Croydon for the funeral of Clare's Dad John Taylor who was only 53 when he died. Fr Martin MacCarthy as vague as ever but all went OK. The organ a Viscount very dusty! Louise sang Ave Maria and Panis. Louise dropped me at East Croydon and I had a baked potato in the cathedral cafe. Joan and Rita came to Lent group and we had a lively discussion. To Tate Britain to see the Schwitters exhibition - I liked the portraits very much. Also an interesting film of past exhibitions in the Duveen galleries. To M & S for tea and then to Andrew Carwood's excellent talk with illustrations by the Heythrop Schola who were much better. I commented on parish repertoire and condemned CDs replacing live music. Watched the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury.