A sunny Sunday
Our weather has been so miserable is was great to have some sunshine today and I even managed some time sitting in the garden which is looking particularly lovely at the moment after all the rain! Liz reports that James MacMillan's music was sung at the cathedral. At Coulsdon we were celebrating Music Sunday. We sang Stanford in C and F which has a beautiful Agnus Dei. The anthem was "How goodly are thy tents" by Ouseley. There wasn't time after the communion anthem to sing "When in our music God is glorified" to Stanford's "Engelberg". I played Parry on "Rockingham" and Willan on "Darwall's 148th" - both fine voluntaries. After a Generations rehearsal there was sherry in the hall to celebrate Linda Williams' forthcoming ordination and departure. Her preaching is much more confident and she tells me she knows the churches I visited yesterday! The Tour de France went through that part of Kent today and we saw some of ...