The organist librarian

An excellent day with lunch at Hurtado centre Wapping studying Hurtado and watching a new Spanish film about Ignatius Loyola. VERY Spanish and overlong but interesting.  At Mass the offertory procession organiser was not there so had to go get the gifts myself with Michael so there was a hiatus. You would have thought the person concerned would have arranged cover. Rain and missed 52 so went home listening to the Brahms. The interval talk on happiness was interesting and I enjoyed the Sawyer and the Haydn. The audience fell neatly into the trap and applauded before the real end! I have been asking for more Haydn at the Proms so ironically I get to not be there! Liz on way home from Lourdes apparently on the same plane as the gang! Sunday Arrived home 12,30.  Not a good start. Came out of Purley station to see rail replacement bus driving off. I pointed out to the staff that my train was delayed and he replied that he did not know and station staff should have told him. As a 3...

Swam 20. Spent the day on Catenian business and emails about the interfaith group. Laurence Jones is no longer a Catenian - he joined in 1977 - sad really. I managed to get onto the portal and discovered Head office had a very old email address for me - no wonder I have not been receiving circulars! The visit to Hyderi mosque to discuss Sunday's meeting was cancelled. Liz went to servers council but there were too few to meet. I sent an email to the Catholic Herald about an attack on Paul Inwood in the paper and on Face Book -outrageous! Peter Sanders rang about his visit to St Michael's on Thursday. He said John Mander had pushed Alan into the Kellner tuning and Nigel Groome had said he would not play that organ as it just sounds out of tune! To Vaughn House for the launch of Monks and Mystics 3. Lots of people there I knew and delighted to see Shakyh Hamzy. The speakers were good Fr Jonathan from Ampleforth, Archbishop Kevin and Dr Shomali. I said I found mosques full of wa...