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Dear all,
As I write this Christmas is approaching far too rapidly! I'm having to take an increasing part of the care of my elderly parents (you think I'm old?!), which takes me down to Newton Abbot about once a month. Happily, they are still in their own home, and that's the way we (my sister, two brothers and I) wish to keep it for as long as they're, with the care they're receiving, able to cope. I try hard to avoid the occasions when we're singing at Mass, but may not always be able to do this as time progresses.
I shan't repeat my plea for your commitment to attend between now and the beginning of January; you have the Dates List, and even though it doesn't generally include Tuesdays....... (does that count as repeating it?!) it does include Tuesday 3 January!!!
A huge 'Thank you' to Sitso, for bringing, with his direction, a new breath of life to our Choir. It has made such a difference (and will, hopefully, increasingly help us improve into the future).
Wishing all of you, and yours, a wonderful Christmas - may your turkeys be huge, your stockings overflowing, and the baubles on your Christmas trees plentiful. Most of all, I pray that the sight of the crib in your homes brings you joy, hope and peace in these troubled times.
Love, Tony x
PS: Please remember you can always contact me on 07967 467313 (do leave a message if I can't answer), WhatsApp, or by email at tony.price@blueyonder.co.uk.
Choir Dates List 2022/23 The latest Dates List, dated 28 October, is to be found here.
Final music for our Christmas Concert, Midnight Mass & Mary Mother of God An outline of the (hopefully) final music is to be found here. Printed copies are available if you want one; please ask me if you haven't picked one up yet.
Forthcoming Poly Masses
Herewith the anticipated Music Lists for the
4 December and
Christmas & 1 January Masses.
Forthcoming Plainchant Masses The anticipated Music List for the 18 December Mass.
Forthcoming Hymn Choir Masses There will be no Hymn Choir on Christmas Day. Then 11:30 Masses on 22 January, 26 February and 26 March. All are welcome to come up and sing!
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Prayers, please Please continue to keep Maria, Terry F., Jane, Terry J. and Mary & Frank in your prayers.
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St. Bart's Memories No. 57 Our Christmas Concert Programme 15 years ago
I always think of A maiden
most gentle as NEW! Also dates from when I had the wrong
spelling of a word in v.3 of Hark the herald! I'll always be
grateful to Gordon Clark for spotting that!! I subsequently picked
up on the further error in the title all on my own!! Both had gone
unspotted for many years!!! December Jigsaws For the grown-ups, a tricky 70 piece Nativity & for the youngsters an easy 12 piece Nativity!
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I sing of a maiden Patrick Hadley - YouTube Advent EF Missa Cantata 11:15 at St. Georges Cathedral 3 December - Andrew Cusack Especially for December! - a fun Christmas Organ Concert with Jonathan Scott - YouTube Give the gift of Museum Membership this Christmas - IanVisits London Mozart Players + Croydon Bach Choir's Christmas on Friday 9 December - LMP Fanny Cradock has her way with the Christmas Birds (absolutely brutal viewing!) - BBC iPlayer The first broadcast Christmas message by a British monarch (1932) - BBC 100 Christmas Religious Programming on BBC 2022 - BBC Media Centre We received our first Christmas card of 2022 on 16 November, posted from .... Norbury!! Royal British Legion Remembrance Festival 2022 from the RAH - BBC iPlayer Old postage stamps: deadline extended - Update Telephone landlines will be obsolete by 2025 (do any of us still use one!!?) - Update The first floor of some houses in Braxted Park had an ingenious fifth bedroom (1905) - Update 5 December is the 60th anniversary of 'The Great Smog' - History Pub Culture: The Lost Art of Spitting - Boak & Bailey & a Pub Spittoon Trough - Update A huge, and searchable, video archive - BBC Rewind How borders have changed over time - Tom Rogers/Twitter ..... and The history of Europe 1500-2022 in Country balls - Wall Street Silver/Twitter Bollards! - Artfletch on Sketchfab Kwasniewski - Fr. Hunwicke Museum of London uncovers the hidden stories of people executed by the state - IanVisits A great way of presenting census information - e.g. 'select' Croydon and then 'go' ONS Croydon artist's works included in major Mall exhibition - Inside Croydon Love Norbury - Love Norbury The Isolation Hospital at Beddington Corner - YouTube Hancock's Half Hour: The Wedding Bureau (that missing episode!) - BBC Sounds London Maps - A London Inheritance Ukraine's national orchestra to play Croydon's Fairfield Halls - Inside Croydon London's Lost Department Stores - Most decent bookshops + Amazon A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates - Some bookshops + Amazon The Harold Wingham collection of aerial photographs - Historic England The Labour Files - The Spying Game - Al Jazeera Investigations Top of the Pops 1978: what an amazing voice!! BBC Arts IKEA's Crimes Against Cartography - London Reconnections The true message of Vatican II - Catholic Herald An absolutely amazing carved mahogany writing desk - Massimo/Twitter A Party with Auntie - BBC Arts The Changing Face of Leicester Square - A London Inheritance Switzerland sets record with world's longest passenger train - BBC News A real phantom ride - Tim Dunn/Twitter More flee London's failing concert hall - Slipped Disc The three 'norths' combine over Great Britain for the first time in history - Ordnance Survey ..... and Three identical norths - Diamond Geezer Central London's free museum mile - IanVisits London's rivers, above and below ground - Wandle News/Update Whoopee! I got 6/6 for this children's Maths Challenge! You?! BBC Bitesize Oldest Footage of London Ever - YouTube What's inside a bank card - BBC TWO BBC returns to Minster to hear Croydon's Choral Evensong - Inside Croydon The Life and Death of London's Crystal Palace - Heritage Calling And finally..... realistic toys of the Russian army are now being made - Update |
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