The organist librarian

Swam and Mass, Took old Catenas to Anerley. To art group to plan future events including exhibition in July in the library (I have a lot of work for that), life drawing and garden party at Julie's.  Wrote minutes of the Skype meeting. To St Mary at Hill for evening prayer sung by the quartet Seraphim including an unusual item by Saint-Saens. Lord Paul Boateng spoke about Pentecost and globalisation. Considering he is a Methodist lay preacher he was sometimes hard to hear. To Malet Street for the Ramadan Tent Iftar which had the largest turnout ever. Sat with SOAS students including a Turkish Erasmus student from Cologne. Neil Jameson of Citizens UK spoke well. He does look like Jeremy Corbyn. Home by 11. 

I was surprised and delighted to receive £180 as a gift from St Andrew's during the service. We sang Bob Chilcott's The Lord is my shepherd - such a lovely setting. I played Worthy is the Lamb and we took photos. The after service party was very pleasant and gave me an opportunity to  thank everyone. Several spoke very highly of the choir and my playing which was kind. The at home this afternoon was abandoned because of the rain and people not being able to get to Vicky's. I cleared out some more files and the keyboard and its stand. There are just more organ music, hymnbooks and robes to come home. I certainly have no intention of giving up playing. I saw Martin and he knew nothing of the All Saints saga and says Tommy may not be leaving after all! I picked up Liz and headed for Streatham for the LAMAG meeting on Faith and Politics. Neil Jameson of Citizens UK spoke really well, Ghanesh Lall less so but the real star again was Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi. He went to Whit...