Third time lucky...

Playlist
Ken Hensley - Eager To Please
Ken Hensley - Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020
Capital Models - 2020-03-10
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen
Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Wes Montgomery - Movin' Along
Capital Models - 2020-02-25
Various Artists - Funked!: Volume 1 1970 - 1973
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Yes - Talk
Various Composers - The World of Your Hundred Best Tunes - The Top Ten
John Cale - Slow Dazzle
Johnny Harris - All To Bring You Morning
Various Composers - Shutter Island OST
Max Richter - Voyager: Essential Max Richter

I did not mention that, while Anne was cooking last night, I recorded the links for today's podcast...

So, up just after six to get it done...

The views from the office, first thing...

Back...

Front...

Inside...

Done in the two hours it takes to record and then, a break for breakfast - a tasty treat from the butcher...

..and some time spent in the living room just listening to Radio 4, with the Rev Richard Coles...

Then to uploading the podcast...

Done...

But then...

I discovered some glitches in tracks 3, 4 and 5...

I had to delete it and re-record those parts and then insert that into the existing MP3 over the glitched part...

Then uploaded it all again...

Done (pt 2)...

Then, the MP3 had stayed exactly the same length and so the start and end of the podcast had both been cut off...

And so, once again, I had to delete...

Had to re-record the start and end and re-edit it all together for the third time...

Finally out into the world around 2pm - just the 8 hours after getting going this morning...

Done (pt 3)...

Then some more WFH - which is simpler at the weekends as no colleague is e-mailing me incessant questions...

Anne started cooking a very tasty indeed lamb curry...

There was a four hour timeframe for this, so, with just the rice to go, we popped out for a walk...

Nicer weather today than yesterday...

Not sure what the story was...

...re this...

Onwards...

A chat in the street with neighbour Gail via her bedroom window...

She reckons it's this till at least August...

Uplifting...

Home...

In the kitchen, I noted the wee cat on the calendar was showing us how to wash our hands...

The last of yesterday's white wine was enjoyed....

...along with the today compiled initial playlist for next Saturday's podcast...

This, by Hammock, was particularly beautiful...

...as was Anne's curry - outdoing any Indian restaurant, I'd say - and I've been to a few...

We continued "The First" with episodes 3, 4 and 5, followed by two of "Extras" - already 15 years old - noting a very young "Mr Hansen" from "Holby" in one of the roles...

Lights out just after midnight...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's curry...

The seventh of the first is missing...

Playlist

The Bad Plus & Wendy Lewis - For All I Care

Spock's Beard - Snow

Peter Gabriel - Scratch My Back

Nina Hagen - Freud Euch

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Icehouse - The Berlin Tapes

Françoise Hardy - Françoise Hardy VIII (Comment Te Dire Adieu?)

David Bowie - Pin Ups

Bryan Ferry - Another Time, Another Place

Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On

Mathilde Santing - Breast And Brow

Steve Harley - Poetic Justice

Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness

Rush - Feedback

King Crimson - Heavy ConstruKction

Sex Pistols - Kiss This

Pet Shop Boys - Pop Art

Moby - I Like To Score

Brian Eno - ENOBOX II / Vocal

Isaac Hayes - The Very Best Of Isaac Hayes

Gentle Giant - Playing The Fool (Remaster)

Soft Cell - The Hits

Various Artists - Hut Ab! Hommage An Udo Lindenberg

Adrian Belew - Young Lions

Allan Holdsworth - Against The Clock The Best Of Allan Holdsworth

Japan - Adolescent Sex

Mott the Hoople - Mott the Hoople

Yes - Close to the Edge (2013 Stereo Mixes)

Herman Van Veen - You Take My Breath Away

John Cale - Fragments Of A Rainy Season [Live]

Various Artists - Poem - Leonard Cohen in Deutscher Sprache

Various Artists - Return To The Dark Side Of The Moon

The Tubes - Now

Udo Lindenberg - Belcanto

Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music - The Platinum Collection

The Beatles - Chronology

The Flaming Lips - With A Little Help From My Fwends

The Pink Fairies - What a Bunch of Sweeties

Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now

Maxence Cyrin - Novo Piano 2

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Alice Cooper - Killer

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes To Hell

Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion

Alice Cooper - Special Forces

Alice Cooper - Zipper Catches Skin

Alice Cooper - Da Da

Alice Cooper - Constrictor

Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist And Yell

Alice Cooper - Trash

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

Alice Cooper - Dragontown

Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds

Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Hollywood Vampires - Rise

Tangerine Dream - Sessions I

Tangerine Dream - Sessions II

Various Composers - 50 Piano Masterworks

Listening to day was mainly a playlist of 40 cover versions, one track from each of Alice Cooper's 29 LPs, a couple of hours of the latest work of the revitalised Tangerine Dream and some quite superb classical piano music...

I was, as usual, up reasonably early to get working...

WFH is a lot more stressful now it seems, than it was when I started a week ago...

Hard to believe too, that it's merely 2 weeks since nephew Craig's wedding...

Like a different life...

But, onwards...

Once again, poached eggs, yesterday having been such a triumph...

It worked again...

Yum...

After working as much as I possibly could all day, post 5:30, out into the gloom for a walk...

We went to the local grocery store in search of bread but there was none...

The view from the office late afternoon...

...including Anne's hood...

Later, once again, Anne saved the day from aforesaid gloom with a top notch pasta dish...

...utilising 4 minute fusili, which made a wee change on the pasta texture front...

A cheers pic was sent out to family and friends...

We started watching a series from November last year, "The First".  There are 8 episodes but, on looking more closely at the library on the Tivo, it seems episode 7 did not record...

Oh well, we'll just need to fill in the blanks...

Lights out for the weekend...

Highlight of the Day : Getting out the house for a wee while...

Isolating with talent...

Playlist

Klaus Schulze - La Vie Électronique 1

Robert Fripp, Bill Rieflin, Trey Gunn - Birth Of A Giant

Gabi Delgado - 2

Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Bill Rieflin - The Repercussions Of Angelic Behavior

Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest

Bach, J S - Glenn Gould Plays Bach

Bob Dylan - Masterpieces

Various Artists - I Get My Groove

Brian Eno - Music For Films 2

Various Artists - Trojan D.J. Box Set

The Clash - The Essential Clash

Deodato - Os Catedraticos 73

Curved Air - Second Album

Brumel - Missa Et Ecce Terrae Motus

Everything Everything - Man Alive

Paul McCartney - Pure McCartney

Ezekiel Honig - A Passage of Concrete

Amsterdam Guitar Trio - Plays Music by Debussy, Fauré, Chopin

Im With Her - See You Around

Muddy Waters - The Essence Of Muddy Waters

John Foxx - Metamatic

Various Artists - Super 70's Reggae

La Dusseldorf - Individuellos

The Tubes - Goin' Down

Mathilde Santing - Under Your Charms

Various Composers - 100 Best Baroque

Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct

Martin Taylor - Artistry

The Moody Blues - On The Threshold Of A Dream

Various Artists - Trojan Upsetter Box Set

Muse - Muse Greatest Hits

Various Artists - Move On Up

Omega - Omega 5

Soler - Harpsichord Sonatas Vol.1

Bert Jansch - Bert Jansch

Phil Manzanera - Guitarissimo

Uriah Heep - Rarities From The Bronze Age

As (almost) always - up early...

This morning we tried poached eggs as per the instructions from self isolating chum Gina...

It worked...

Thank you Gina!

Simple really.  Add "some" salt and vinegar to some water in a pan and bring to the boil and simmer.  Swirl around a little, crack two eggs into it, swirl it carefully a little bit more then leave for 2'30"...

Perfect...

At lunchtime, tomato on sourdough bread...

...and left over green soup...

As I worked away upstairs, Anne started her next creation, following on from the magnificent hot air balloons...

In the evening, with a whole tin of coconut milk used (probably twice as much as normal)...

...a very lovely and creamy Red Thai Chicken Curry was produced by the Exec Producer...

So glad to be isolated with someone of such talent!

Highlight of the Day : Anne's cooking...

A walk can be a welcome distraction...

Playlist

Tallis - 16th Century Music for Viols

Ortiz - Music For The Spanish Kings

De Rore - St John Passion

Byrd - Play

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Monteverdi - Teatro D'amore

Allegri - Miserere/Messe/Motets

D'India - Il Primo libro de madrigali a cinque voci (1607)

Schütz - Symphoniae sacrae I

Marini - Curiosi & Moderne Inventioni

Corelli - La Folia

Marais; Sainte-Colombe: The Greatest Masterworks

Purcell - Essential Purcell

Albinoni - Oboe Concertos Complete Op 7 & 9

Vivaldi - LCO 07 : Vivaldi

Telemann - Parisian Quartets

Rameau - Suites pour Ballet

Heinichen - Dresden Concerti

Händel - Chamber Music (Complete)

Bach, J S - Das Orgelwerk - Complete Edition

Richter - Quatuors opus 5

Boyce - The Eight Symphonies (Menihun)

Bach, C P E - Cello Concertos, WQ 170-172

Haydn - Streichtrios

Bach, J C - Symphonies

Dittersdorf - Symphonies in D Major, A Major and E Flat Major

Mozart - Requiem

Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets

Field - Piano Music, Vol. 1

Schubert - Piano Trios

Mendelssohn - Streichquartette

Schumann - String Quartets No. 1 & 2

Liszt - Piano Concertos 1 & 2; Totentanz

Janacek - Piano Works

Debussy - Works For Piano

Satie - Piano Works

Zemlinsky - String Quartets 1 & 2 (Artis)

Scriabin - Piano Works

Bartók - String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartet)

Hindemith - Piano Sonatas 1-3

Scelsi - String Quartets

Tippett - Piano Sonatas No. 1 - 3

Cage - Complete Piano Music

Feldman - Music For Cello

Stockhausen - Piano Music

Gubaidulina - Piano Works

Pärt - Fratres, Festina Lente, Summa

Lachenmann - Complete String Quartets (Arditti)

Rihm - Musik für drei Streicher

Max Richter - from Sleep

Music today was 500 years of classical, with ten tracks each from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries - after yesterday's mainly podcast related listening...

Another reasonable day weather-wise as the isolation continues...

Breakfast at home was bean-centric...

...while lunch was a sandwich (and an unpictured tea was a tasty home made green soup)...

..plus the remainder of the beans - heated up though, not cold like the other day's dad emulating scenario...

Also at lunch time out for a walk in the environs of Crispycat Towers...

Back home, while I WFH, Anne got the disappointing news that her IT department had run out of time, before her office's lock down, to supply her with the necessary equipment to work for home and so she has been deemed "furloughed" under the government's new scheme - although, of course, no-one actually seems to know how that works...

The last of the Xmas stash was demolished...

In the late afternoon, calls to our mums - both doing ok...

...and, later on, the second of "Jean and Joki", erm I mean "Kate and Koji" was enjoyed, along with "The Goldbergs" and the last in the series of "Star Trek : Discovery"...

That was it...

Highlight of the Day : Out for a walk...