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Date: 25 May 2009 10:15:20
One of the curates came into the vestry, for pre-service prayers, calling 'Order! Order!' She will henceforward be known as 'Betty'.
A very small, nervous group of sopranos gamely kept the show on the road today - being the First Sunday of Half-Term (that well-known date in the Liturgical Calendar) - singing the first verse of 'Come Holy Ghost' (Attwood) before we all came in singing SATB. People in the congregation seemed to appreciate the quiet sound though, although one person asked who was the soloist.
Quiet was not the word to be used for the organ voluntary ('Transport de joie' - Messiaen), which I'm sure the Director of Music played louder than usual to make up for the general air of quietness in the chancel this Sunday. He'd also had fun earlier in the service playing Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet' as the Gospel Fanfare (as a lead-in to the other curate's sermon theme about 'The Apprentice'). I think these curates are having too much fun while the vicar's away..... I expect he'll come back and say, 'You're fired!'