1978

K holding Dennis after his baptism. 5/2/78 Note the furniture which we had bought from Germaine Spencer. When we were on the bus in St John's Wood she asked the conductor to ring the bell! Who did she think she was? The suite was lovely but rather impractical for young children.

Unsurprisingly 1978 shows lots of watching opera on TV and visits to the theatre were limited. Memorable at the Albert hall were Max Boyce, Macbeth and Cosi fan tutte. At the Fairfield we enjoyed Hinge and Bracket and the King's singers. Saw Plunder at the Lyttelton and Death in Venice and Peter Grimes at Covent Garden. Went to Curlew River and the Prodigal Son at Southwark cathedral. The Gondoliers at Sadler's Wells and Hans Andersen starring Tommy Steele at the Palladium. I did keep going to chorus and Beethoven 9 appeared regularly. Ann got about quite a bit, Bath, Stratford and she loved snow! Dennis was baptised by Fr Farmer at St Chad's on Feb 5 along with 5 others and we had 50 to the party in the evening. Ann left on Feb 16 having enjoyed the visit. I persuaded Mr Parker to let me go to Battersea Park music which was upstairs (it later became a computer room) and started there Feb 28th. Much of my career was spent there. In those days we walked to the station together! The estate was not nice but it was more convenient without a change of trains.

Fr Farmer died 2005