The Whale

Sad news the whale that caused me to spend ages getting along the Embankment has died! They tried to rescue it by putting it on a floating pontoon thingy to take it back out to sea (it really was miles up the Thames) but it didn't make it and died at 19:00 yesterday. They are now going to work out why it died.

On a brighter note we had the Churches of Herne Hill annual joint service at our church today which was great. I had to do the reading though - scary with so many people but it was fine. They got lots of the kids/young people to play the music and they were all really good.

Did have one horrific moment though as i realised my ex-music teacher from school was there. He was a strange man who used to get very annoyed with the windband - he was once heard to say during a day full of rehearsals for a concert in the evening: "if i haven't thrown myself off the roof by the end of the day it will be a miracle" I think he got a little stressed.