The organist librarian

Tuesday reading and to college for 5 for session on good essay writing with Damian and an interesting lecture. To Acton and slept better on my own. Took Ciarán to music without buggy and he shouted out the names of instruments! Liz arrived during coffee - we were watching tractors dredging the river. Lost my hat. To Chiswick for Mass for St Andrew's Day with Fr Graham. Ciarán singing Happy birthday (Advent wreath candles look like a cake!) and Baby Jesus! Lunch at Carluccios - nice risotto. Tiring walk back and he didn't drop off! To Heythrop for 4 for lecture on Syrian Orthodox church with Sebastian Barry from Oxford. I asked a question about relations to Islam and got a good answer from Anthony O'Mahony. Met a PhD student from Oxford - interesting chat. To library and then to cathedral for Kynaston's 70th birthday concert. Hearing aids made organ very loud and eventually took them out. Awful lot of loud reeds in use - score for Franck No. 2, Mozart. Alain and Liszt no...

On Wednesday Malcolm Riley who is an expert on Percy Whitlock played the last of the series at St Michael's. He included works by Andrew Carter and one of his own composition written for Francis Jackson's 90th birthday. It was a shame the rpogramme did not give the verses of the psalms on which the Whitlock pieces were based. I returned home for lunch then went to the Cathedral for Sharing in his life group which was interesting. I served at Mass and attended the recital by Nicholas Kynaston. A strange programme of Franck, Karg-Elert and Reger. I enjoyed the Langlais pieces and Thomas invited me to the drinks afterwards where I met Stephen Disley and his father, Peter Wright, Fr Aidan Rossiter among others.