Robot cake...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Ersatzreal
Various – The Wire Tapper 16
Air – Pocket Symphony
Vivaldi – Adagios
Various – Holiday Hits Vol 11
Various – Quiet Music Jukebox Playlist

To the computer first thing like some kind of PC obsessed automaton...

First off I burned a disc for John & Ali of Impossible Songs of the pics taken at their housewarming barbecue a couple of weeks back...

Then breakfast and a taped episode of “Coronation St” – the only one of six I watched today (I’m pretty sure Anne watched all the others at some point)...

Back to the internet and I booked us some tickets for some shows at the Edinburgh International Festival, six in all, two ballet pieces, two operas and two recitals...

Also, after consulting my webmiester extrardinaire, Creek's programming guru Mr Craig Sutherland, I purchased a 500Gb external hard drive along with the new CDs from Rush (I know I downloaded a copy but their artwork is always superb), Marillion and Lucy Kaplansky...

Then, spurred on by our in-car listening during the Irish Trip (Holiday Hits Vols 1-10), I transferred tracks lasting between 4:30 and 4:59 from the Jukebox to the hard drive with a view to burning ten new Holiday Hits CD compilations...

Around 1, we drove uptown to the Planning Office to view the plans for the rather large housing development due to take place on the site of the Queen Margaret College which is closeby to Crispycat Towers...

We came away reassured that things will not be as bad as we expected – the majority of the trees will remain – of course it all hangs on the Developers sticking to the plans and the detailed restrictions – something for which developers are not usually renowned...

We popped into a wee Turkish Café (Truva) by the waterside in Leith for a coffee before I checked out a couple of 2nd hand music shops (Elvis Shakespeare and Vinyl Villains) – nothing of any interest...

Then to Falko Konditormeister on the way home and we bought two slices of lovely cake, Plum and Schwabisch Apple, and a small loaf of German bread. Their site doesn’t have pics of the cakes we bought but here’s a couple of samples...





Back home we partook of some tasty “Kaffee und Kuchen” while watching taped episodes of “Criminal Intent” and “Doctor Who”...

In the evening the indulgences continued with a late Indian Takeaway from the India House in Morningside near Count Brodski’s flat...

Then “Ugly Betty”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Question Time” and “This Week”...

Bedtime

Highlight of the Day : Kaffee und Kuchen