The organist librarian

After the rain of yesterday, Boxing Day is clear. We remember St Stephen first martyr, deacon and patron saint of servers. Watched 2 episodes of Monarchy on the computer. To Grandma's to put all her china and glasses away now the decorating is done and new carpet is down. Bruce fixed the downstairs phone up. I walked home and saw the end of Carmen from Covent Garden which I recorded. Also listened to the rest of King's Carols and midnight mass from the cathedral and watched Derek Jacobi in "The old curiosity shop". We enjoyed bubble and squeak. Bruce watched "The Terminal" after buying an enormous clock at IKEA.

A St Joseph from Bangladesh! To work on Saturday and a quiet day doing housekeeping things like deleting lots of items not found in the stocktake - dull! At Vespers we sang the O antiphon in Latin - what a thrill to sing that! I put our more leaflets for "Understanding Islam" - the poster is still up! To Mass and Philip and I were the servers for Fr Dwayne. Deacon Ed gave an excellent homily about Joseph - not heard him preach before. On the radio we had Prokofiev's "War and Peace" from the Met and in the opera quiz an extract from "O holy night". Liz went to take Ann Marie to the airport and borrow her car over Christmas. Watched Monarchy programmes on TV - the Queen is amazing! Sunday to collect meat from the butcher in Addiscombe and Liz was thurifer at the solemn Mass with Bishop John Arnold. We sang "Hail blessed Virgin Mary" and "For Mary, mother of the Lord". Started with "Come thou redeemer of the earth" and ...

Tuesday had my final dental treatment and Judy suggested I go to the Mayday eye clinic as a floater had appeared in my left eye on Sunday. It was thoroughly checked by Dr Hun and nothing was found so now I must get used to the floater whizzing around my eye! The Sharing in his life group had a good discussion and I served at Mass. James has joined the team and really looks the part! I also saw Sarah and got the fliers for "Understanding Islam" copied. Liz is to do sacristy duty on 3 days. She is busy redecorating at Grandma's while she is in King's with a urinary infection and bleeding again. She is getting much better care there than at Mayday.At Chorus Robert rehearsed for Classic carols including his own rather good arrangement of "Silent night" which is one carol I loathe! Thursday to King's to see Grandma and chorus where we rehearsed Elgar Te Deum and Vivaldi Gloria. The rehearsal was taken at short notice by a young man with beard and heavy rimmed...