The organist librarian

Very much enjoyed the Merchant at the Globe. Jonathan Pryce and his daughter were excellent. How anti-Semitic the play is and the forced baptism at the end underlined this. Second half of Vespers with the Abbey choir at the cathedral.Pity it had to be Vittoria and Phillips. Daniel Cook played Bach but it just became a great wash of sound! I walked Globe to Blackfriars so was tired. Schutz on radio 3. Domingo at the BBC. Family arrived and had fish and chips.

Swam 30 lengths. Took Ann to the library and went on to Louise and Tom's for an excellent lunch. We did the wedding service booklets. Then Liz came home and Tom went swimming. Louise, Ann and I went by tube and DLR to Canary Wharf to visit Bruce at the Evans cycle shop. He had safely ridden home from Bath. We really enjoyed "The Merchant of Venice" at the Globe. We had excellent seats and all acted so well. The programme is enlightening on the problem aspects of the play which I know very well as I studied it for matric and acted in it too! Here are Louise and Tom opening Ann's lovely present from Tasmania made of sassefras wood and Ann's photo of the Globe stage.