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Date: 28 September 2007 16:27:32
St Eustachius would have been delighted with the cut-out hats worn by the children in church this morning. Startled by a vision of a cross caught between the antlers of a stag, the saint was the inspiration for the vestry group to make their own 'antler-with-cross' headgear. And very smart they looked, too.
Meanwhile, the choir looked the same as usual, in their red cassocks and white surplices, this time being matched by the clergy, also dressed in red. We sang, 'Teach me O Lord' by Attwood, accompanied by the enthusiastic singing of our next would-be chorister, who was certainly not tall enough to see the conductor. The rest of us, unfortunately, did not sound pure and childlike this morning - more like we'd just returned from the pub.
We made up for our ragged performance in the evening though, fortified, no doubt, by the Friends' afternoon cream tea. Being a festival, the music was hyped up a notch, with the Sweeney responses, Brewer canticles and 'Let all the world in every corner sing' by Vaughan Williams.