{"id":1272,"date":"2009-10-21T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2009-10-21T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T11:17:40","slug":"bit-of-a-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Bit of a star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Granddaughter Amy gets to grips with Bewilderwood while waiting for the boat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The concert by Stuart Townend was announced as something different. I was dubious at first, but it turned out to be exactly that, as the first half-hour or so was taken up by jazz from Mark Edwards and band: superb stuff, very high quality. The musicians generally were top-notch, adding another dimension to Stuart Townend’s fairly straightforward Celtic-inspired hymns and songs. Some of these were extremely good (In Christ Alone<\/em> is still the best); others were merely good. He did a great deal of talking too, and the concert lasted for three hours, including a 20-minute interval. Bridget and David were there, and Harriet, who took Vicky’s place when she realised it would be too much of a rush after spending the day in London. Holy Trinity was packed, of course.<\/p>\n

Dot had just finished a tiring afternoon delivering some philosophy for teachers at a school just outside Norwich. We were both feeling a bit shaky, but it was worth making the effort. Today is wet and dismal, and Dot has gone off to Diocesan House for a conference for aspiring heads. She is giving one of the talks. She is actually a bit of a star, but of course I always knew that. I have one or two things lined up: I am writing a story for Oliver for Christmas, a Christmas dramatic poem for church, a course for editors of church magazines on behalf of the p<\/a>arish pump website<\/a> and some material for the Paston website<\/a> to bring it up to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The concert by Stuart Townend was announced as something different. I was dubious at first, but it turned out to be exactly that, as the first half-hour or so was taken up by jazz from Mark Edwards and band: superb stuff, very high quality. The musicians generally were top-notch, adding another dimension to Stuart Townend’s … Continue reading Bit of a star<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1450],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-concert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog360.back2sq1.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}