In the end...

...I didn't go to Westmin Cathedral. Too complicated a day, with a hectic rush to meet a deadline in the morning, then other features to be written through the day, and lots of admin. and phone calls and things. So it was the Jesuit church at Wimbledon at 7.30pm instead...I'd forgotten how large the church is, and if was full, full, of people, and there we were with the lady next to me sharing her hymn sheet and we were singing "To that cross my sins have nailed Him...." Long silent lines of people trooping up to receive ashes on foreheads. The choir sang Ave verum corpus at Communion. Large crowds so it was long, but beautiful...home late by bike.