A veritable spree...

As usual, up early and I copy more backing tracks to the hard drive, should I ever need them - the complete "Callingstill" (42 songs!), "Doveloveshawk" and various other bits and pieces.

Burn a few recent CD orders to post out to people and copy my two latest Blue Note CDs to the Jukebox.

Then out for breakfast to Stockbridge and Patisserie Florentin - truly we are creatures of habit, for, from there, it's down to the main street for a browse in the Oxfam Music shop where I pick up this John Abercrombie CD....



Excellent Jazz-Fusion and features none other than Mr Jan Hammer (ex Mahavishnu Orchestra) the writer of Mr Crazy Frog's superb "Axel F" hit....

Here's Anne with some lovely bread...



...as you can see, it's more like October than the end of July today here...

...a further shopping spree for a couple of shirts leads me to buy a double DVD by Yes??



Then, when we get home, there's a couple of packages from e-bayers for me....

Firstly, a book of songs and stories (in German) by Herman Van Veen - which, rather poignantly, bears the inscription inside of "Frohliche Weinachten wunscht dir deine Jesa" ("Jesa wishes you a Happy Christmas") and a date, 24/12/83 - so this must have been a Christmas present to someone at one time...

Then a double CD by ex Spock's Beard main man, Neal Morse...



Neal found God and indeed Jesus and left Spock's Beard. Now some people slag him off for his Christian lyrics but, frankly, the music's great so I can see beyond that, even though I'm an atheist myself...

Here's the radio alarm clock we bought for a fiver at Asda - the batteries cost nearly as much - amazing...


Finally home to Meg the Black Cat, who, once again, prefers to laze on the bed amongst my debris, rather than run around outside. Anne thinks she's gaining weight and wants to start weighing her and her food...I think she may have inherited some bad fat genes from her adopted Dad....



She looks just fine to me....

A bad week for Celtic as they start their league campaign against Motherwell (where they lost it on the last day last year) and can only manage a 4-4 draw, indeed saved, by a last minute goal, from further humiliation after their midweek 5-0 thrashing from, what appears to be a team from a print shop in Slovakia called Art Media...oh dear

Anne's cockahoop as the Jam Tarts get off to a good start with a 4-2 away win against Kilmarnock.

The mighty Queen of the South sweep aside lowly Albion Rovers 4-0 in the Bell's Challenge Cup which QoS won a couple of seasons ago.

Can I just say that, last week, QoS beat Motherwell 4-0 - which means they are better than Celtic, which means THEY actually won the European Cup in 1967 - what a team - and they're only part timers!!

The day is rounded off by four (4!!) episodes of "Desperate Housewives" and the washing machine going tits up...

Oh and I nearly forgot...turns out there's more than one hall at the venue for our gig on the 16th August and so the performance will go ahead as planned (well by me anyway as Jamie is still blissfully unaware of preceedings, being incommunicado and all....)