It’s a while since I wrote here. I have been so busy and then I felt down - just couldn’t be bothered to write anything. But so much has happened since early April.

Dinesh Singh, a good friend of mine and a research physicist at the University of Regina in Canada, visited on 7 April. It was an opportunity to continue our long-running conversation about science and religion. Like me, Dinesh is a Baha’i. Unlike me he is a scientist and he has given some serious and interesting thought to the subject.

Hari and Avril turned up while Dinesh was here. I introduced them (both astrophysics postgrads) to Dinesh and they were able to pick his brains about physics and work in physics.

Erica and I attended the last of a series of four organ recitals at the Royal Festival Hall on 4 April. In fact, this was the organ’s last outing before being dismantled and refurbished when the RFH itself is refurbished. This was actually a rather fine recital by Simon Preston. The hall was full and Preston was warmly applauded.

Our other musical outing was to the ClassicFM concert in the Royal Albert Hall on 21st April - the first day of the Baha’i festival of Ridvan. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra played, amongst other things, the final movement of Saint-Saens’ organ concerto and Elgar’s cello concerto. The RAH organ is in good voice now that it has been refurbished, but it is so loud that it drowned out the orchestra - as happened the last time we heard this concerto at the Proms last year (with Dame Gillian Wear). Julian Lloyd-Weber was the soloist in the Elgar - truly one of my favourite pieces of music.

We met up with old friends Eric and Tricia Hanson on 20 April. Eric and Tricia, whom we met many years ago at Bosch Baha’i School in California when Erica and I were teaching a course there, are now working at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa. They were over here for a few days and we had a wonderful evening together, catching up. The friendship is such that we could have talked on and on through the night.

Having looked at a whole range of journaling and note-taking apps, I am now trying MacJournal.
Thursday, 28 April 2005 20:52 PM
OK, I bought it.