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[wildeabandon]

Yesterday I went to Walsingham for the wedding of Fr Daniel and his lovely bride Elise. It was a beautiful service, presided over by the Revd Canon Stephen Gallagher, Elise's father, and with a sermon from +Philip North which was both moving and highly entertaining. The music was exquisite - the ordinary was William Walton's Missa Brevis, which I'd not heard before, and sounded beautiful but also very hard! It was marvellous to spend some time in Walsingham, and I somehow managed to come away from the shrine shop without buying any tat, and only one book.

As Fr Daniel had other places to be this morning, we had a visiting celebrant today, and since she had enough on her plate getting to grips with an unfamiliar ceremonial, I was asked to step in as cantor for the Alleluia. I'd had enough warning about this that I was able to ask CN to turn half my piano lesson the previous week into a singing refresher, and that helped me feel a lot more confident. Despite being frightfully anxious, I think I did a pretty decent job, and I might ask about possibly doing it more regularly, so I can work on getting over my nerves.

We continue to settle in to the new house. We still lack a functioning dishwasher, and have slightly more furniture in the spare room than we actually need, but apart from that we've done all the urgent jobs, and are starting to move on to the longer term nice-to-haves. Today I put together a new standing desk, which I'm hoping will have the twofold effect of being good for my back and shoulder tension, and discouraging me from wasting too much time hitting refresh on social media.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Oh a functioning dishwasher is one of the best things we ever bought.

[wildeabandon]

Frustratingly, we've done the buying the dishwasher bit, but it looks as though the problem with the old one wasn't actually that it didn't work, but that there's a problem with waste-water draining further down the plumbing, and our plumber has had the audacity to go on holiday over Easter! He should be back to look at it on Tuesday though, which we're all very much looking forward to!

[miss_s_b]

Oh that must be incredibly frustrating.

Here's to Tuesday!

[sfred]

Iff it is OK to ask: what does the "+" mean in "+Philip North"? My Googling isn't finding the answer.

I'm glad being cantor went well.

[wildeabandon]

+ means Bishop, similarly ++ means Archbishop

[sfred]

Ah! Thank you.