Accidents will happen...

Playlist
Various - Potential Covers
Klaus Schulze - Interface
Epica - The Phantom Agony
Klaus Schulze - The Essential 1972-1993

Blue skies this morning...

...and green trees...

..and a new blue pot...

...in which the beast was reflected...

..and which will replace this clay-based accident victim...

Uptown, the tram work continues - pathetic that this has taken probably around seven or eight years so far now...

And no sign of an end in sight...

There are still some nice-to-look-at things to be seen though...

Home for another quiet evening in...

A takeaway for the first time in a while and some usual Friday night staples on the box...

And bringing this drivel up to date...

Early to bed...

Tired...

Another week over...

Wedding tomorrow...

Highlight of the Day : It's Friday?

Artificially dark skies...

Playlist
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
Klaus Schulze - Mirage
Schubert - Octet D803
Kamelot - Silverthorn
Epica - The Phantom Agony

Snail on the door...

Dark skies...

Some not too great CDs purchased for charity...

...and a good one which...

...unfortunately, it turned out I already had, albeit in re-issue format...

Some good stuff has arrived lately though...

...including this 3CD box of Anne-Sophie Mutter playing some enjoyable tuneless modern stuff...

... and this, purchased at Mr Fopp's Emporium...

Tonight, with Anne out walking in the Pentlands with chum Teresa, I captured the late evening sun...

...through artificially darkened skies...

Highlight of the Day : Annie having fun...

Cat in a box, pt 658...

Playlist

Holzmann - Wandelung

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mutter Modern

Sigur Ros - Inni

Introduce a box in a house with a cat and the cat will undoubtedly enter the box at some point...

Sunshine and showers - your correspondent was soaked a number of times...

...and then blinded by the sun...

Strange weather...

More blinding...

More soaking...

..including raindrops picked up in the camera flash...

Home for a quiet night in, spent mostly watching the telly or listening to new acquisitions...

Highlight of the Day : When the rain was off...

Talking about the old days, again...

Playlist

Various - Acquisitions 2012/13 on Shuffleplay

Anne-Sophie Mutter - Mutter Modern

Sigur Ros - Inni

A squirrel spotted in the back garden this morning - source of nut based feast unknown...

Good skies on the way home...

...after a day on which a 2CD + DVD set by Sigur Ros was bought at an invigorated Fopp - turns out I had it on a hard drive having borrowed it from the library a year or so ago...

The real thing is better...

In the evening, we picked up Lynn and drove into town to meet up with birthday boy, ten days my younger, Mr Jim Park, seen here between the Exec Producer and Robert Hind...

Jim is a stand up comedian, gardener and erstwhile IT contractor and drummer...

Jim's sister Ann - through whom Jim and I first met 30 odd years ago was also in attendance, along with Paul Reynolds...

Restaurateur David Bann soon joined us too, as did unpictured poet and artist Pete...

...and erstwhile unbeatable fiver-a-sides goalie, Spiderman Greg...

Jamie Frain was also in attendance, his own birthday having been yesterday...

What a bunch of May-boys we are...

Good times...

Home late, not too much the worse for wear after an enjoyable evening...

Highlight of the Day : Meeting up with some very old friends...

Cracking up...

Playlist

Various - 20 Jahre Kompact : Kollektion 1

Handel - Serse

Dark skies this morning...

But bright sun too...

...glinting on the spires of the deaf school...

The cathedral continues to impress...

..as did this distant dome on the way home...

..to a slipper loving Meg the Black Cat...

Some tidying and ordering of books was done...

...and I noted that "Untitled No 9" (if I recall correctly), is cracking up... 

My Documenta postcards take pride of place...

On telly, "Vicious" continues to be top notch...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Tidying...

Bursting out the top...

Playlist

Kat McKenzie - Demos

Kat McKenzie - Hiding EP

Nitin Sawhney - Human

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

Up reasonably early considering last night's shenanigans...

Amending this slightly...

Breakfast featured an attempted eggscape...

With Anne off to see Hearts lose 2-1 to Hibs at Tynecastle in the last local derby of the season, I drove to Loanhead to catch up with my mum and sister Sheila...

The starlings are back - they have been coming since at least 1967... 

Mum is improving everyday and hopes to start driving again on Tuesday - meanwhile Sheila is up to her eyeballs in preparations for next Saturday's wedding of CBQ's "Crocodile Song" co-writer, nephew Andy...

Over to Anne's mum's for my birthday tea...

Young Olly sported an excellent Queen of the South top...

...and beans were on the menu - my only culinary request...

There was, of course, some of Anne's mum's best sponge cake in the world...

...which was duly sliced by the one-week-ago birthday boy...

Olly begged for some extra icing...

Later Anne helped out her mum with her camera - the latter did not believe it featured such a thing as zoom...

She was soon proved mistaken...

Back home for some telly and a reasonably early night...

Highlight of the Day : Olly is a Queens fan...