The organist librarian

To Purcell room for hour with Stefan then there was an hour when we sang nothing and finally got away at 1 p.m. To M & S at Clapham Junction to get black shirt as Brice must have taken his back! Reminiscence group - 6 all very vocal about childhood some in extreme poverty in Battersea. Saw RA. To St Paul's cathedral and first to play. Simon Johnson changed stops and I played Murrill's Postlude on a ground as I did at Westminster Abbey. Big thrill to have the tuba at the end! Simon saw Adrian and myself out. I hailed a taxi to the Artists entrance Royal Festival Hall and was early as a result. Concert went very well although I think the pros were still too loud. Train home and liz picked me up after coming back frm confirmation class. She was upset at Stefan's result which was poorer than Edward's and saying she must have lessons.

A most interesting lunchtime meeting of the forum at Katharine Low settlement. How much we need a vision and one way might be through reminiscence groups and using smaller parks more! Shocked to hear about housing where living rooms are used as bedrooms - no wonder libraries are so important! The advice not to have more children is not heeded. To ENO to book for Turn of the screw using the voucher for the resold ticket for Peter Grimes which is to be on again. The computer crashed but got tickets! To National Portrait gallery for Gay icons which had some surprises notably Graham Taylor. No paintings in the exhibition but well done. I chose Britten and Pears. To chorus and finished early as conductor did not turn up. Celia laughing over Liz's remark that I could feed the American choral conductor - the idea is that 20 conductors come over and stay for a week and take part in the MacMillan. That would be most interesting especially if conductor was into church music.