Not remembering what you've already done can be a not good thing...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik
Sumner McKane - The Northeast by Eastern Film Soundtrack
Bennie Green - The Swingin'est
Piebald - Barely Legal & All Ages
Orion Tango - The Apple of No
Martin Kohlstedt - Tag
Dylan Howe - Subterranean - New Designs On Bowie's Berlin
Various - The Wire Tapper 33
Various - Leaders Of The Pack
Various - The Wire Tapper 24
Various - The Wire Tapper 32
Bacewicz - Piano Works
Various - Family Affair Chapter Two
Anathema - The Optimist
Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Copland - El Salon Mexico, Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Etc.
Various - Move On Up, Vol. 2
Schumann - Schumann/Chopin/Bacewicz
Rod Stewart - The Best Of Rod Stewart
Various - Pure... Rock
Sumner McKane - Allot Upon
The Neal Morse Band - Alive Again
Jaco Pastorius - Anthology: The Warner Bros. Years
Adiemus - Songs Of Sanctuary
Lou Donaldson & The Three Sounds - LD + 3
Kats-Chernin - Unceremonious Processions
Niagara - Don't Take It Personally
Strawbs - From The Witchwood
Victoria - Masses
Brade - Hamburger Ratsmusik Um 1600
David Reilly - Rubinmusik 1977-2017
Manchester Camerata - Haçienda Classiçal
Various - The Wire Tapper 34
Deep Purple - Infinite
Marin Marais - Suites pour viole de gambe - Juan Manuel Quintana
Purcell - Instrumentalmusik
Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways
Stamitz - Sinfonias
The Weeknd - Beauty Behind The Madness
Beethoven - String Quintet, Op. 29 & String Quartet, Op. 132
Spring - Spring
Faust - Faust So Far
Schoenberg - Works For Piano
Various - The Krautrock Archive Volume 2
Tangerine Dream - Rot Weiss
Webern - Complete Works
Jean-Jacques Kravetz - Kravetz
Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle
Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartets #1 & 2
Pixie Ninja - Ultrasound
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of
Glass - The Hours
loscil - Sea Island

Recent acquisitions on shuffleplay soundtracked today and some tracks made it later on into the final list for this week's podcast...

Went to rip Kate Bush from yesterday, only to find it was added to the hard drive back in March, courtesy of Prog Rock Willie and Dropbox...

Oh well...

Another fine morning but rain was forecast...

A "Simpsons" sky on the hill...

The beast was about its business...

The rain never materialised...

Anne out at Zumba this evening and compiling undertaken...

No recording as yet though, as a long call to my mum as required re helping her sort her telly - last night I had had to sort it too - she's obviously pressing some secret button on one of her many remote controls that knocks everything off-kilter...

There was also much deleting of stuff from her Tivo last night...

A call from TalkTalk asking if all was now well with the internet...

Just as they called, it went down for the first time since we installed the new router...

Spooky...

And annoying...

This was the call that was supposed to have been made to me three weeks ago...

I came out of it with a discount on this month's broadband charge and a promise that they will meet my bill re phone calls made to their "free" number (it turns out it's only free if your landline is with TalkTalk)...

Internet back up and the case appears to be closed...

Listening to the choices for the podcast - eclectic as ever...

"The Windsors" was up to the high standards set thus far...

More listening, bringing this up to date, then, bed...

Highlight of the day : Rebate...

Just as well it's only a game...

Playlist

King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, Vol. 1

Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'album Di PFM

The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues

Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest

Captain Beefheart - Doc At The Radar Station

The Move - Looking On

Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Various - Top Of The Pops 1967

Net Prophet - Net Prophet

Spring - Spring

The Rolling Stones - Through the Past Darkly

Strawbs - Grave New World

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Pink Floyd - Relics

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

The Kinks - The Singles Collection

Pavlov's Dog - At The Sound Of The Bell

Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest

Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees

Strawbs - Hero and Heroine

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Genesis - Foxtrot

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th Anniv)

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik

Kate Bush - Before the Dawn

A beautiful morning as I set off down the hill...

Liked these crows on a roof...

...and these undoubtedly eventually to grow much, much taller trees...

At lunchtime, to Tollcross for a look around...

This found at BHF there for £2.99...

Home under blue skies once again...

A baked potato and quick turnaround then out to Loanhead to catch up with my mum on her first full day back home after seven and a half weeks...

Doing well...

Back home to find Queen of the South unable to break down non-league East Kilbride...

A 0-0 draw, which, in the League Cup is followed by a penalty shoot out for a bonus point...

East Kilbride won 4-1...

Oh dear...

"In the Dark" continued nicely but darkly...

And "Holby" was on form too...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Holby...

Getting home and back to normal...

Playlist

De Rore - St John Passion

Maxwell Davies - Naxos Quartets #1 & 2

Heinichen - Concerti Grandi

Corelli - La Folia

Bach, J S - Goldberg Variations (Gould 1955)

Carter - Chamber Music

Vivaldi - Cello Sonatas

Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas

Victoria - Masses

Brade - Hamburger Ratsmusik Um 1600

Schubert - Sonates pour piano D.784 et D.894

Strauss, R - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

Webern - Complete Works

Monteverdi - Scherzi Musicali

Satie - Piano Works

Dowland - Lacrimae, Or Seaven Teares

Tippett - Piano Sonatas No. 1 - 3

Haydn - Doric String Quartet - Wigmore Hall Live

Marin Marais - Suites pour viole de gambe - Juan Manuel Quintana

Albinoni - 12 Concertos, Op. 10 1-6

Schoenberg - Works For Piano

Boccherini - Cello Concertos & Sonatas

Glass - The Hours

Feldman - Music For Cello

Locke - The Broken Consort

Varèse - Arcana, Integrales, Deserts

Allegri - Miserere/Messe/Motets

Bach, C P E - Symphonies & Concertos

Jenkins, J - All In A Garden Green

Tallis - Mass For 4 Voices, Motets

Gubaidulina - String Quartets 1-3 & String Trio

Mozart - Divertimenti K. 334 & K.247 "1. Lodronische Nachtmusik"

Purcell - Instrumentalmusik

Dittersdorf - Sinfonias on Ovid's Metamorphoses, Nos. 1 - 3

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Through the Day

Stockhausen - Piano Music

Stamitz - Sinfonias

Hindemith - Piano Sonatas 1-3 (Glenn Gould)

Pärt - Fratres, Festina Lente, Summa

Janácek - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905

Today, I was mostly listening to the new classical playlists of 10 LPs from each of the 16th to 20th Centuries...

It was a scorcher, although the sometimes strong wind was also welcome...

Word from Anne and sister Sheila around midday, mum home...

Within an hour, it was apparently like she'd never been away...

Home under blue skies...

Down the path but no sign today of wee Tiger...

...a plane had passed overhead...

Tasty pasta for tea...

Further listening plus the return of University Challenge - Edinburgh 165, Ulster 160, Crispycat Towers 105...

Not bad...

"Fearless" concluded well...

Enjoyable...

Late on, proving on twitter that an old man can like both Gentle Giant and Girls Aloud...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day: Mum finally home...

One person's waste of time is another's well spent...

Playlist

King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, Vol. 1

Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'album Di PFM

The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues

Barclay James Harvest - Baby James Harvest

Captain Beefheart - Doc At The Radar Station

The Move - Looking On

Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

Various - Top Of The Pops 1967

Net Prophet - Net Prophet

Spring - Spring

The Rolling Stones - Through the Past Darkly

Strawbs - Grave New World

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

Pink Floyd - Relics

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

The Kinks - The Singles Collection

Pavlov's Dog - At The Sound Of The Bell

Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest

Bee Gees - Best Of Bee Gees

Strawbs - Hero and Heroine

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Genesis - Foxtrot

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed

Albinoni - 12 Concertos, Op. 10 1-6

Webern - Complete Works

Strauss, R - Chamber Suites Op 60, Duets, Sextet

Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour

Schoenberg - Works For Piano

Carter - Chamber Music

Feldman - Music For Cello

Purcell - Instrumentalmusik

Händel - Oboe Concertos #1-3 Suite In G Minor

Corelli - La Folia

Bach, C P E - Symphonies & Concertos

Schoenberg - Schoenberg: Works For Piano

Ginastera - Complete String Quartets

Stockhausen - Piano Music

Bartók - String Quartets (Alban Berg Quartet)

Janacek - Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 -- In The Mists -- On The Overgrown Path Series I

Glass - The Hours

Vivaldi - Cello Sonatas

Tallis - Mass For 4 Voices, Motets

Various Composers - Lumieres : Music of the 18th Century

Pixie Ninja - Ultrasound

Holger Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle

Spring - Spring

Faust - Faust

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of

Up at 5 but back to bed and slept till well after nine...

On Friday a shout out to Twitter as to what track people might use to demonstrate a mellotron to those not in the know was made...

As a consequence, a playlist has been formed and this was listened to this morning...

Breakfast at home then some classical music, collating playlists for the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, with 10 composers in each...

500 years of music in 50 albums, kind of...

Also watched the three performances from the opening night of the BBC Rpoms with pieces by Coult, Beethoven (played by Igor Levit) and Adams...

I will try and watch every performance over the next couple of months...

I will try...

The strong likelihood is that that project, like almost all my other projects (other than keeping this up to date and recording my weekly 2 hour podcasts of eclectic music choices), will fall by the wayside...

We'll see...

Late afternoon, with the tennis in full swing (an 8th win for Federer), took Anne down to Lynn's and drove over to the hospital for the 26th (and, hopefully, last) time in 53 days...

I was now in extreme pain re my right hip after walking stupidly last week re my left knee...

So it goes...

Mum's walking practise continued, with, as yesterday, two walks during my visit...

Packed her bag in readiness for sister Sheila picking her up tomorrow...

To Anne's mum's - with Keith & Maureen and Jane, Olly and Kitty, unpictured but back from Spain - Bob on dog sitting duty...

In fact no pics till after all but Anne and I had gone...

Home to finish off "Ackley Bridge"...

And, this afternoon, it was announced the 13th Dr Who will be a young woman...

Good stuff...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling...

Chance meetings can sometimes be the best meetings...

Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 28
Pavlov's Dog - At The Sound Of The Bell
The Moody Blues - This Is The Moody Blues
The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Passed
Hoelderlin - Clowns & Clouds
Edgar Froese - Epsilon In Malaysian Pale
Barclay James Harvest - Octoberon
Sombre Reptiles - Paraphernalia
King Crimson - The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson, Vol. 1
Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'album Di PFM
Kansas - The Prelude Implicit
Teresa Salgueiro - O Horizonte
Tord Gustavsen Ensemble - Restored, Returned

Up pre 6 and finishing off the podcast...

Uploaded at 8...

Not out for breakfast...

Around midday to the bank and then over to the infirmary...

Mum will be released on Monday - for the time being, walking is being practised...

Home for a quick lunch and then a rush to Stenhousemuir for Queen of the South's first competitive match of the season in a five team mini-league to commence the League Cup...

We arrived just as the game kicked off...

Stenhousemuir are in the fourth tier, Queens in the second - on paper this should have been easy...

The rain was drizzling down...

The wind was blowing fiercely against QoS...

After 16 mins we were 1-0 down to a stonewall penalty - the manager was not happy...

Despite 60% possession, we could not break through for an equaliser...

The view from the office this afternoon...

Finally, after around 65 minutes, our talisman, Stephen Dobbie, scored with a shot from the edge of the box which, it must be said, took a deflection...

Just after 80 minutes Queens took the lead after Dobbie floated a free kick into the box to see it expertly headed home by Sean Rooney, on his debut, the new right back who had conceded the penalty in the first half...

Two minutes later and Dobbie stepped up again, blasting home a shot from well outside the box right into the bottom left corner of the goal...

All over...

I must admit when Queens were 1-0 down and struggling to make any headway, I thought a draw might be an excellent result...

All in all, not the best performance ever from our team and, as last season, relying a little to heavily on the Dobster...

He is by far and away the best player in our league - his footballing brain is on another level...

The team was applauded off the pitch - something which, half an hour earlier seemed like an impossibility...

Home through the still falling rain...

This evening, out for a tasty, unpictured, meal at the Omar Khayam at Haymarket...

Unpictured apart from this, post starter...

A bus home and we chose to alight at the terminus...

And so, by chance, we bumped into neighbours Gail and Kevin as they headed up onto the hill to pick raspberries...

By the time our extended chat had finished, it was probably getting too dark to see any fruit...

A wee dog entertained as we made our way down the hill...

...where we were joined by Tiger the Cat...

...who knows when he's on to a good thing...

...and, as predicted inside his wee feline head, goodies were indeed dispensed...

A late coffee and some relaxing music before hitting the sack...

An enjoyable Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : Out with Anne...