Meanwhile, back in the real world...

Playlist
Freddie Hubbard – Sky Dive
Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay
McLaughlin / De Lucia / Di Meola – The Guitar Trio
California Guitar Trio – Rocks the West
CGT – CGT+2
Bill Bruford – The Earthworks Underground Orchestra
Herman Van Veen – Zwei Reisende
Grandaddy – Just Like the Fambly Cat

Up too early at 6 am and went downstairs with Meg the Black Cat where I leafed through the next two weeks’ copies of Radio Times, highlighting all the programmes I want to watch, including the repeats on More 4 of “Howard Goodall’s How Music Works”...

While doing so, listening to a couple of Freddie Hubbard’s early 70’s albums on the CTI label, followed by my recent purchase by McLaughlin/De Lucia/Di Meola and then, for guitar trio comparison, a few tracks from The California Guitar Trio – I must come down on the side of the former....

Out at nine, having called to cancel Anne’s optician appointment due to her ongoing flu like scenario, and along to Helen the podiatrist for a check up on the toe she so masterfully returned to full non-sore condition a couple of weeks back...

I was in and out in 15 minutes with another appointment booked for late January...

Then uptown for some Christmas shopping. In the event all I bought were DVDs of “2001: A Space Odyssey” and a Billy Connolly concert ("Two Night Stand") from a couple of years back and the final CD from one of my favourite recent bands, Grandaddy – “Just Like the Fambly Cat”...

In the afternoon, due to Anne’s illness I accompanied her mum to Tyncastle for the Hearts v Motherwell game which turned out to be Hearts’ first win since early October as they romped home 4-1. A reasonably good game – though the patent non-understanding of many of the rules of the game of those sitting about us became more and more irksome as the game progressed...

Back home and into the welcoming warmth of Crispycat Towers, I downloaded Keith Jarrett’s “Koln Concert” from 1975, and watched “Robin Hood” and, for my sins, quite a bit of “Strictly Come Dancing” then the first half of the film “The Sum of All Fears”, the end of which I’ll watch tomorrow...

A take out Indian was scoffed...

The night ended with me starting to show the same cold symptoms as Anne as we watched “Match of the Day”...

Oh dear....

Didn't seem to be anything on the box yesterday about the anniversary of John Lennon's shooting...

Highlight of the Day : Grandaddy’s Fambly Cat...