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Date: 10 October 2005 09:39:44
This year was a harvest of babies rather than crops - with a baptism and a visit from a young niece just before her first birthday. We enjoyed a good, loud sing with, 'The Heavens are Telling' by Haydn, and 'We plough the fields and scatter (the good seed on the land)', with a harvest lunch in between the modern Eucharist and the traditional evensong. Evensong had to be early this week because the Antiques Roadshow was being broadcast (from our town) and there would have been nobody in church at 6 o'clock. The little wardrobe organ was broken (as well!) so we had to sing accompanied by the piano. Which sounded great at the front of the church, but the people at the back could hardly hear it. The youngest of the top line (16 and under) sang the Haydn trio, with a 17 year old bass and his father singing tenor. It sounded good.
The following Sunday almost saw the most unfortunate spoonerism ever heard in our church - the 'wedding banquet' during the Gospel reading; fortunately only half of the unfortunate phrase emerged, and the day was saved...... 'O for a closer walk with God', by Stanford fortunately had a strong top line, and a strong tenor line as well thanks to our new recruit (new to our choir, not new to singing). And thence to the parish centre, to make our part in the town mosaic - the church, understandably enough, providing a fish motif.