Glasgow University Chapel

...Where we found ourselves today reliving our past as the University Chapel Choir celebrated 60 years in its current form. Several quick, exhausted thoughts: the present choir is very, very good; the alumni like me (though not all as old as me) made a respectable contribution; we must have been the noisiest crowd of pensioners to hit an Italian restaurant in Byers Road after it was over.

What did I love? I was glad - yes - finally to have a chance to sing Parry's I Was Glad, complete with coronation vivats. What a sound! What a blast! The new organ was hair-raising and we were on wings. I didn't know how I'd feel about singing with a large group, but for this occasion, and with this group, it was great.

And I loved not having to be the one that gets it right. Just for once.