A busy day!

[kathyh]

I had a very busy but very enjoyable day yesterday. After a morning spent wrestling with some computer problems (still ongoing so if I vanish don't be surprised) we headed off to a lunchtime concert at what used to be the Parish Church but is now grandly described as a Minster. It has a particularly good acoustic and what appears to be a hotline to

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[kazzy_cee]

I was pleased to see the Pre-Ralph Sisters twice as I needed to digest some of the information a bit more. I’m glad you enjoyed it.

[kathyh]

Yes, I really did. I wish I'd gone to see it a bit sooner but I'm glad I got there before it closed.

[curiouswombat]

A Minster - how very upmarket :)

I would have liked to see the Pre-Raphaelite Sisters exhibition - much though I love my home there are definitely disadvantages to living on an island.

[kathyh]

I can't remember quite what the technical reason for it becoming a Minster is. We do have a Bishop so it might be that. The Midnight Mass at Christmas came from there so it can also put "as seen on TV" after Minster :)

Sometimes I wish I lived somewhere a long way from London but then I remember all the things we can do so easily and stop wishing that.

[archaeologist_d]

The exhibit sounds like it was great.
While I wasn't in the UK during the storm of 1987, I had a friend whose parents lost about 1/2 their trees in that one.

I'm not religious but the 'do unto others' is something that I feel should be universal and I try to follow.

[kathyh]

Yes, I'm not religious either but it has always seemed to me to be a sensible principle to follow.

It was terrible how many trees fell around here. It was a mild and wet autumn I think so the trees were still in full leaf which made them more vulnerable. The extraordinary thing was that the big tree in my parents' front garden didn't go but went over 20 years later in winds that were nowhere near as strong.

The exhibit was really interesting.