Hometown trip...

Playlist
Reid Anderson – Dirty Showtunes
Reid Anderson – Abolish Bad Architecture
Reid Anderson – The Vastness of Space
Miles Davis – Circle in the Round
Bryan Ferry & Roxy Music – 21 Songs
Various – The Milano Jukebox 2006
The Guess Who – The Greatest of the Guess Who
Eels – Eels with Strings : Live at Town Hall
Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up

Up at 6:30 and listening to some great jazz from The Bad Plus’ bassist, Reid Anderson...

Around 10, Made some coffee and poured out some fruit juice whilst Mr Miles Davis jazzed up the kitchen with his “Circle in the Round”...

Today it was off to Glasgow for some shopping and some eating – our ETD was 10:30 but we finally got out of the house around 20 minutes late...

We parked up off Byres Road just before 12 and looked for somewhere to brunch....

Everytime we’re in Byres Road we make a joke about the rhyming sign outside the chippy there – “Jack McPhee Fresh from the Sea” – but, today, we went in to the café part and enjoyed an excellent and good value brunch...



Directly opposite is Thorntons with their own rhyming sub-title “chocolate heaven since 1911”...

I think Jack’s is better...

This place would have been stinking of smoke before the ban – but now it’s fine – the only good thing to come out of devolution....

A quick look around Lost in Music and then to the tube station and into town...



Once again I toyed with the Uriah Heep and Barclay James Harvest CDs in FOPP. I also had Weather Report’s not very good eponymous album (the second eponymous album from 1983 not the early 70’s one – which is good) in my hand along with a compilation of German electronica...

In the end I put everything back apart from Dio’s “Evil or Divine : Live in New York City” which, I imagine, will rock big time...

I added to that the live album by Eels, “Eels with Strings” along with two Pat Metheny Group albums, “Quartet” and “The Way Up”...

Then along to Missing Records, where I spent £2.50 on the best of The Guess Who – I’ve never heard them before and don’t know any of their songs but I understand they were big in the late 60s/early 70’s in Canada and the USA – apparently they were the first Canadian act to have a number one in the USA...

Meanwhile Anne had been buying some lovely new clothes in various stores – we met up just after 3 and, after buying me some new black T shirts, we headed to The Metropolitan for a couple of drinks...



I enjoyed the Kriek cherry beer and Anne enjoyed the Staropramen...



Around 5:30 we headed back to St Enoch for the tube back to Partick, where we intended to dine at Mr India’s Dosa Curry House (where we went back in May when we were in Glasgow for our first Paul Buchanan concert of 2006)...



After a bit of a mix up involving staying on the train one stop too many, coming out of the station and starting to walk the wrong way, turning round and going back to get the train back one stop and finding the last train left at 6:30 – we found the place (Hyndland Rd) just a few minutes’ walk in the right direction...

Our second Indian of the weekend was every bit as good as the first, if not better – well different anyway. I had a dosa to start with (on Friday I started with vegetarian haggis fritters)...

The main courses were superb. The sauce had just the right consistency and texture ...

Tasty!

After the meal, we strolled back along to Byres Rd to the car and drove home to the sound of Roxy Music and Anne’s best of 2006 CD...

Back home, I started listening to the new discs while watching "Match of the Day 2"...

Another good day...

Highlight of the Day : A trip to my hometown