Cloudland Blue Quartet – Deeperdown
Brian Eno – Remasters Promo CD
Pink Floyd - Echoes
Finished the Pink Floyd book – reasonably illuminating and, again, drawing me to their excellent music....
Once again the last day in August – once again my mum’s birthday – the last year has just flown by...
Anne and I drove out to Loanhead for 7 and picked mum up for a meal at the restaurant of her choice – The Steading on the outskirts of Edinburgh...
A couple of fine sirloin steaks were consumed by Mr & Mrs CBQ while mum opted for the scampi...
A lovely bottle of South African Gewurtztraminer accompanied the over-sized but enjoyable helpings...
Mmmm mmmm...
Sweets followed after a lengthy period of conversation, reflection and general letting out of belts...
Cassis for mum, ice cream with hot chocolate sauce for Anne and banoffee freezecake for me....
Oh yes...
Back to mum’s and we were joined by sister Sheila who proceeded to entertain us for a couple of hours with tales of her life in Penicuik with her husband, sons (younger one – apprentice plumber – under the floorboards collecting scrap copper to fund his spending money for a Cypriot holiday) and dogs (spaniel viciously attacked by neighbour’s cat, big black Labrador chasing off said cat, spaniel’s neurotic insistence on gaining entry to the downstairs bathroom)...
We asked if there’d been any more murders in Penicuik recently – to which the matter of fact response came “No, but a house had a petrol bomb through the living room window at three in the morning recently” – something got do with “taxi wars”....
Home at 12:30 am and falling asleep watching unfathomable baseball...
Highlight of the Day : Family get together
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