The organist librarian

Wed March 25th to the Queens gallery to see the beautiful Breughel to Rubens exhibition with excellent commentary featuring our friend Jenny Scott! We had tea at a nice Italian place nearby and I went to Lent group and then to extra chorus rehearsal. Thursday Liz went to Birmingham with Jet in the van to take Bruce's stuff and she returned on Saturday and all is well. I went to chorus on Thursday evening and to choir practice on Friday on public transport so decided to go straight there and practise. I am not playing Bairstow's Toccata prelude on "Pange lingua" this Maundy Thursday. I have revived a fine piece by William Wordsworth on "Nicht so traurig" instead. The tune is set to "Go to dark Gethsemane". I kept up the pace at rehearsal but at one point I told choir to shut up so I could explain the plainchant pointing of the psalm. I was mot embarrassed but really there was no alternative! Friday's interfaith lunch gathering at All Saints was ...

To Grandma's with lunch from Marks and Spencer for £15 - beef, vegetables, Chilean red wine and berries in jelly. To St Augustine's Grove Park for recital by Robert Munns and Sally Johnson marking anniversaries - Haydn, Handel, Mendelssohn, Purcell, Avison, Eben, Mathias, Ireland and Bridge. A good concert well thought out. Watched The No 1 ladies detective agency - delightful! Monday 34 lengths. To tai chi. To St George's Beckenham to see Nigel Groome with Vicky and John. Met some Catenians on way to Beckenham meeting! A positive and helpful meeting.