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Come and Sing! Journeying through Holy Week A service of readings and music for Passiontide St Mary the Virgin, Wheatley Palm Sunday, 29th March 2026, 5.30pm Full rehearsal on the day: 3.30pm Note-bashing rehearsal: Thursday 26th March, time tbc Music list on the website: https://www.stmaryswheatley.org/music Please contact layministermusic@stmaryswheatley.org if you would like to sing

Come and sing some fantastic Passiontide music on Palm Sunday. Music includes Ireland 'Many waters' and Chilcott 'There is a green hill'. Full music list is on the website here: www.stmaryswheatley.org/music
Please let me know if you'd like to sing - basses especially welcome!

Well that went down a treat. Churchwarden and vicar came up trumps with the missing items. The chorister loved the dressing up and the small congregation joined in the memory game with great enthusiasm.

Tomorrow evening's all-age talk finally committed to paper. It's the Armour of God, so I shall get a chorister dressing up, with the focus being on remembering the 6 items & what they represent. A certain amount of improvisation involving a frying pan lid & a cycle helmet: still looking for a sword.

I fell for the one of each non group first!

More generally, making music with other people or disciplined practice on my own.

Listening or playing Mendelssohn - specifically (playing) the final movement of the 4th organ sonata or (listening, or playing with the cellist) the 1st movement of the second cello sonata. Possibly a bit niche, but both these pieces of music lift my mood one notch from wherever it was. 1/2

I often do this now with learning long and difficult pieces of music. I can't remember who suggested it, but it means that when you've finished practising for the day you can always play to the end.

Though to be fair, I'm meeting my parents on the Saturday: because I work on Sundays.

If you're going to be pedantic, it's Mothering Sunday. #Pedant'sCorner

We have the builders in. 3rd week of a 2 week job. No kitchen. The trouble with eating out is that I can't get on with my knitting while waiting for the Beloved to finish eating. (He's *very* slow, but then again, I am grateful that eating out is an option again.)

@chilternrailway.bsky.social why have I been issued with an £85 fine for parking at Haddenham & Thame Parkway when I paid for my parking when I purchased my ticket? Registration on the purchased parking ticket is the same as on the charge notice, so it's not an error on my part. 11th Feb.

I'll leave it at home ...

Oh no! Do I need to rescind that invitation to meet for coffee?!(My profile picture is a tad misleading.)

Actually, it just shouldn't take 12 weeks to get a blue badge. If you need it, you need it straight away.

I think perhaps once you're in the system for cancer care everything is amazing. Macmillan nurses were *so* helpful. (BTW he's currently cancer free, but left with the damaged cerebellum.)

The palliative care nurse applied for the Beloved's blue badge and it came within days. When it ran out, we mentioned it to the consultant and the Macmillan nurse sorted the replacement. Can you get a medical professional to help?

Well, I was a tad surprised myself!

The Beloved has just demolished his share of a Chinese takeaway. Yes, slower than me - but *nowhere near as slow as last time we had one* (probably Valentine's Day 2025). Small steps. 😍

They struggled to work out the percentage increase in my absence...

(They're discussing my organist salary: I've declared an interest and have left the room!)

I think this probably boils down to the fact that Cambridge doesn't have the same sort of centralised admissions system that Oxford has. There are lots of inconsistencies between colleges for some courses.

or St John's - one of my colleagues is checking furiously! I have to go to a church meeting. Looking forward to finding out where we've got to when I get back. This shouldn't be how it works. Oxford had a single really clear announcement about their changes, very carefully timed.

It's mentioned on King's website, but not Trinity or Peterhouse or Queens.

I wonder if they think this will encourage more students to apply to Cambridge to read maths? And more disadvantaged students? I am utterly baffled...

Ok, the Christ's website says the TMUA is now needed, but the Cambridge site doesn't. What the ... ?

To be fair, lots of Cambridge applicants will be taking TMUA anyway, because they've got Warwick or Imperial or Durham as their second choice. But I still think it's an admin error.

And I'm speaking at a conference tomorrow on Admissions Assessments! Aaargh! Will have to waste time on the train checking websites at the last minute. It has to be wrong, but why wasn't it checked?

I've just checked the Cambridge website and it's clear that the TMUA is *not* required for maths. If Christ's are requiring it as well as STEP I suggest choose another college. But I think this is an admin person getting it wrong.

I'm 99% certain this is incorrect info from Christ's. The UAT-UK website says Cambridge only requires TMUA for Computer Science and for Economics. Don't take my word for it, but do double check as I'm sure they're wrong.

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