It was time for some leisure after all the shifting of house malarkey of the last 2 weeks. After a perfectly enjoyable service (Phillip the organist's last) with the wonderful Howells Collegium Regale as a Mass setting, it was off to the pictures to see "Quartet". OK, the Filmhouse was awash with the middle-aged (ourselves included) but it was a good film about aged musicians in a Home for the crumbling artiste. No one delivers a waspish put down like Dame Maggie Smith, Billy Connolly nicks scenes like billy-o as a randy old tenor, Pauline Collins is sweet and touching as an old dear in the early stages of going ga-ga - and I completely forgotten how good Tom Courtney was as an actor. Plus Jim from the Dibley PCC turns up and sings! Worth an afternoon out of the cold.
Then home to cook a nice beef stroganoff and find the heating's on the blink. Life resumes on Tuesday with a return to work. Poo!
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