yummy harvest lunch

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Date: 09 October 2006 13:39:49

We sang for our supper again today - for it was the town church Harvest Lunch. It was also the 50th anniversary of one of our choristers being made priest, so he celebrated and preached and at special request asked us to sing Psalm 122 (a capella) as well as 'Lead me Lord' by Wesley. It is very rare for us to sing two anthems in one service but as he treated us to drinks on Friday after choirpractice, we agreed unanimously.

After a blow-out lunch of beef in ale and summer berry cheesecake, it was surprising how many people stayed awake in order to sing Evensong. The decision to sing a two-part anthem ('I give you a new commandment' by Aston) was probably a wise choice given the danger of a snooze seeming more preferable. We sang SA top line, TB lower line for a change (normally ST, AB), which sounded rather bare when unaccompanied during rehearsal but sounded fine with organ accompaniment on the night.

The name of our new vicar was announced at the start of both services - I only hope that the poor chap, coming from Oxford, is not expecting Oxford college standard singing every week. For a parish church we don't do badly, but there is always room for improvement.