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If things have been quiet on the blogging front recently, it's for a good reason: Beloved and I were married on 28th September, and only returned from honeymoon a few days ago. Now, life returns to "normal" -- except it isn't the same. I'm getting on with various bits of practising, fundraising, Song Cycle planning, and the like. I was back at work playing for the service at St Andrew's on Sunday...

This Saturday, London Open House day, London Gallery Quire will be going on a Church Crawl. We will be singing music from our book, Your Voices Raise, at the following churches and times: 1.                  St Mary Woolnoth                                                      10.30 a.m. 2.                  St...

The organ at St Andrew's needs the bellows re-leathered. So far fundraising has been going well -- we've had a hymnathon, concerts, and various other events, and raised over £11500 of the £25000 we need. We're also planning Mystery Plays next summer, and if the money isn't raised yet, I hope to do some fundraising as part of the Song Cycle pilgrimage. These are all events that take a lot of...

At St Andrew's Leytonstone this summer we're hosting Mystery Plays as an organ fundraiser. I've made an initial list of ten plays (playlets really). The idea is to have all of these covered by the beginning of June, after which if more people want to join us they're welcome and we can expand. Various local groups have expressed interest in participating and I'll be approaching them this week to...

With many thanks to @Turkeyplucker for the words: Now some say that Minister Lansley Is better than Jeremy Hunt; They're both set on privatisation, And I say that each one's a -- Come for your jabs and your X-rays, Come get your broken bones set, And come buy a piece of the service, They haven't sold all of it yet! Give back, give back the National Health Service to us, to us! Give back, give...