The organist librarian

Thursday another good breakfast - one of our nights was complimentary as we had a noisy night on our previous visit! I wnt back to Royal Armories museum to see floor 3 and found the South African war material and the jousting. To Town Hall for 12 and really enjoyed playing the organ there. Another treat! I played Moore, Vaughan Williams, Eric Smith and Karg-Elert. I should have brought my Bairstow! To Leeds City museum - interesting Roman and Egyptian stuff, display on stolen, smuggled or taken. Leeds story very well done. Picked up case from hotel and 3.45 train back arriving at 5 p.m. so time to get to college. Nobody has had any results and no sign of The Lion. Martin Ganeri seems to be serving up his research as a lecture! Chatted to Xavier about the India trip - we have brought the flight forward and saved £300 by going with Etihad. This will give us longer in Kochi and Xavier will investigate a room at the Jesuit provincial house which is away from the city. Watched Come dine wi...

Tuesday X68 to Holborn tube to King's Cross 9.45 train to Leeds. Walked to Jurys Inn and very helpful manager got us into our larger room with view. To Royal Armories museum and this was most interesting and included sections on peace and live demos. Saw 2 of the 3 floors including hunting and War. Eventually ate at Rajas next to the Opera House - huge pizza! Faust was very well done and the seats were in the middle of the Upper circle which felt close to the stage and reduced for OAPs! The production used a lot of video and it really worked. Excellent singing too. Peter Auty and James Cresswell outstanding plus Marcin Bronikowski and Robert Anthony Gardiner. Juanita Lascarro and Sarah Pring also very good.