I realised yesterday that I hadn't bought one... so I got out my paints and spent a while experimenting! It's not beautiful but it'll function... (I actually did a second which was tidier, but gave it to a friend)

Indeed. If they can't afford a £2m house, maybe they shouldn't have one?

That would be a massive GDPR breach here. Do you have a similar data protection law? If so... *maybe someone needs to be in trouble?*

Ah! Knowing that would have saved me a lot of time.

That took me so long to figure out! Having to work out which octave each note is in definitely didn't help - and the positioning of the commas/double "mi" at the end of the first line really confused me too.

Oh and it even has an arrangement of Jerusalem with all the most important harmonies and stuff but which is actually playable! 😁

My goal when I started teaching myself to play was that I wanted to be able to help out with the odd special occasion - midnight mass and the like - at tiny village churches that otherwise wouldn't have an organist. Books like this put that goal firmly in reach! (I just need a car now...)

Also I found this book in a chaotic second hand bookshop yesterday, which was incredible luck because it has in it about 150 tunes in playable 3-part arrangements which mostly sound very effective and were perfect on these little village organs with no pedals!

Yeah wish I could feel more hopeful but sadly I'm struggling to believe the CofE is capable of appointing anyone with a spine. Hope to be proved wrong.

I can't remember what it's called or find it but at some point there was a website going round where you put in your date and time of birth and it gave you all the milestones for number of days, number of hours, etc. You could sign up for notifications when you hit a milestone.

13. Alciston (open)
14. St Michael and All Angels, Berwick (open)
15. St Andrew, Alfriston (open)

Both the weather and the access to churches definitely improved as the day went on. Which was good because for the first 5 hours I don't think it stopped raining for more than half an hour altogether!

9. St Pancras, Arlington (open, I took a lovely picture of Georgina but my phone didn't save it properly)
10. St Bartholemew, Chalvington (open, no sign-in sheet)
11. St John the Baptist, Ripe (closed while they stop it falling down)
12. St Mary, Selmeston (open, with freshly-pressed apple juice!)

5. St Elizabeth, Eastbourne (open!)
6. St Andrew's, Jevington (closed)
7. St Peter ad Vincula, Folkington (open!)
8. St Mary and St Peter, Wilmington (open, no sign-in sheet)

I was going to post these as I went but it was too wet!

1. St Mary the Virgin, Eastbourne (open, no sign-in sheet)
2. Emmanuel Church, Eastbourne (closed)
3. St Michael and All Angels, Eastbourne (closed)
4. St Gregory, Eastbourne (closed)

Not even 10am and my waterproofs have officially surrendered. Joy!

Stats so far:
Churches open: 1/3
Sign-in sheets available: 0/3

And yes it's pissing down...

We tend to keep them if they fall on a Sunday but don't transfer them if they are on a weekday. Means we occasionally get something different pop up. This year, I feel like we're getting more of it than usual, but I'm not complaining as it means I can mix some festal stuff in the music lists!