A traditional...

...and beautiful funeral Mass at Westminster Cathedral for Mrs Brigid Utley. Celebrated by Bishop John Sherrington with  a number of concelebrants including Canon Stuart Wilson of St Mary's, Cadogan Street, who preached. He recalled her at Fr Michael Hollings' parish in Baywater, helping with costumes for the Notting Hill Carnival, and later as a dedicated parishioner of the Cathedral where she was always seen at daily Mass. The Utleys are a family of writers and journalists...oh, and much more, read here, and here...  and the Cathedral was filled with friends.  Afterwards, over drinks and delicious food much talk....conversations ranging over the ghastliness of  Cameron's loopy same-sex marriage scheme with its all-too-easy-to-unpick "quadruple lock", and on to the general hopelessness of the Cameron project generally...