Following on from yesterday's "Last Lunch of the Year" post where Lynn and I ate in the new Patisserie Valerie in Norwich and thoroughly enjoyed it, the new year finds me sitting in the same seat in the same café with our Peahen, enjoying much the same yumminess.
We'd also enjoyed the morning's New Year's Day Organ Recital at Norwich Cathedral.
Here's a little taster. Please excuse my shaky camerawork.
Happy New Year, folks!
Now home again and enjoying the Pasadena Rose Parade live on a KTLA5 link Petrea posted.
Mmm … cheerleaders … Yay!
13 comments:
What a beautiful, glorious sound to open the New Year!
This is how I thought the organ I went to hear last year, so beautifully restored by the Historic Landmarks people, should have sounded. I got 2nd rate roller-rink instead.
Lucky you, Dive!
Speedway, the computer and camera will never do justice to the AWESOME sound you feel through the magnificent space and the very stones of the Cathedral.
Come on over for the next New Year.
Well done not as shaky as I thought it would be,it is hard to hold still, but the Cathedral looks great as always.The sound is very good.
Nice to see Shiela…
Mum, remember my camera weighs a whole lot more than yours! Having said that, I'm ashamed at my shaky camerawork,
And yes, it's always nice to see Shiela.
Can't believe you have the Rose Parade on your blog! I'll be linking to you today.
I was just telling John: a tourist might think that Wells and Salisbury and the like are unusual, because they get a lot of press. But this is just as magnificent. I'm beginning to think these glorious cathedrals are all over England. Am I right?
Yup. Thanks to you I'm loving the Rose Parade (the sun has just come out in Pasadena after a cloudy start).
Yes, there are beautiful cathedrals all over the place here. Norwich is one of the earliest and most magnificent (easily trashing Wells and Salisbury … ha!); second only to Durham in awesomeness.
Right … Back to full screen Rose Parade fun …
Glad you had a good time!
Practicing for brekkies and lunch with you on Saturday. Hee hee.
Happy New Year, Lynn. Love to your Mum and Dad.xx
A wonderful New Year to you and yours.
Looks like a splendid way to start the new year!
And thank you for the link to the organ recital. Must have been a tremendous experience hearing it live in the cathedral!
Hi, Neetzy. Wishing you and the family a splendid 2013.
Ms.M it was not unmighty. You don't so much hear as feel an organ played seriously in a place like that.
Happy new year, David! And I'm so glad you posted the organ recording—how lovely! And after watching the Rose parade, did you think Americans odd, I mean odder than you originally thought?
Happy New Year to you, too, Robyn! And welcome back home from the deep South.
It's my second year of watching the Roas Parade; compared to Pasadena's "Doo Dah Parade" it is positively dull, but still great fun.
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