Burning and being thrashed...

Albums of the day
Terje Rypdal – Lux Aeterna
Isaac Hayes – Shaft
CBQ – Deeperdown
Asia – Heat of the Moment
Porcupine Tree – Deadwing
Rheostatics – Best of
Dar Williams – Best of

Up at 7 and to the computer to continue the fulfilling of the big “Deeperdown” order...

By 9:30 the final batch of CDs is completed from the point of view of burning and printing...

Still need to do the covers but the deadline’s still a couple of weeks away, so I figure I’m ahead of schedule...

By this time Anne is up and by 9:45 we’re on our way to the usual breakfast haunt – don’t need to tell you the name but, here’s a pic...



I took a couple of pics of Anne today - she's very nice don't you think?







Fill up the car with petrol on the way back and buy two Cadbury’s Crème Egg Dairy Milk Bars for the journey down to Dumfries...

Then try to compile and burn a couple of CDs for the journey but the PC spits the first one out half way through and it’s time to go so I grab the 1CD Best of Rheostatics and 2CD Best of Dar Williams I compiled last weekend...

We drive down the A701, the tourist route – and it’s beautiful and quiet. I don’t much like the route that takes me down the M74 and this is a pleasant change....

It takes around an hour and half to get to Dumfries and we go straight to Palmerston Park. I buy a programme and a new QoS key ring and then it’s into the club bar for a drink. The players who aren’t in the squad today are in the bar having a drink with the fans...

Then in to the game. This is only my second time of seeing the Queens live this season. It’s the last game of the season. My last game was the first game of the season – thrashed 4-0 by St Johnstone in Perth....

Today, in a disastrous four minute spell around 3:25, QoS go 3-0 down and it’s all over really....

At half time Kilmarnock are beating Rangers 1-0 and Aberdeen are beating Hibs 2-0 – both good situations for any Hearts fan so Anne’s mood is up despite the Queens’ drubbing...

In the second half, the team is much better (later today the manager apologised to the fans for experimenting in the first half, which led to the triple goal loss) and after five minutes we pull one back...

So Queens won the second half 1-0...

Here are a couple of goalmouth incidents - the terrace at the back is unused due to danger - the crowd was around 3,000...





After the game we get back to the car to find Rangers have come back to beat Killie 3-1 while Aberdeen have gone on to thrash Hibs 4-0...

We stop off in Moffat for an excellent Indian at Bombay Cuisine, run by a couple of Glaswegians – then it’s back to Edinburgh and we finish off the day with “Dr Who”, “CSI:NY” and “Law & Order:Criminal Intent”...

Highlight of the Day : Return to Palmerston (despite the defeat)