Friday, April 04, 2008

Square memories...

Playlist
Electronic – Raise the Pressure
Bob Dylan – Love and Theft
Bob Dylan – Modern Times
Bob Dylan – Time Out of Mind
Erasure – Nightbird
Natalie Merchant – Motherland
Natalie Merchant – Ophelia
Natalie Merchant – Tigerlily
Various – Invictus Club Classics
Various – Invictus Club Classics Vol 2
Various Composers - Modern Classics
It Bites – Still Too Young to remember
Francis Dunery – Welcome to the Wild Country
Darren Thornberry – On the Edge
Lindsay Sugden and the Storm - Same
Moby – I Like to Score
Patti Smith – Horses
David Reilly – Anthology 1977-2007 Vol 1 (1977-86)
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Souvenir XVI Ersatzreal Live
Fiona Apple – Extraordinary Machine
Devo – Hot Potatoes : Best of
Hope of the Stars – The Lost Riots
Sigur Ros – Hvarf Heim
Liza Minelli – Results
Erasure – Union Street
Dionne Warwick – The Very Best of
Leonard Cohen – Death of a Ladies Man
Leonard Cohen – Recent Songs
Leonard Cohen – The Future
Bob Dylan – Dylan
KD Lang – Absolute Torch and Twang
KD Lang – Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygene
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams

A new playlist today - rock & pop albums from the last 100 CDs living room shelf...

To Linlithgow tonight on the train to meet up with old friends Ken and Rose...

Before heading to Waverley Station, we stopped by the new gardens at St Andrew Square and partook of a couple of Americanos at the coffee pavilion...



Quite apt really, as Ken and I first met in 1982 when we worked at Guardian Royal Exchange which, in those days, was situated at No 13 on the square – of course, it’s a bar now...

I love travelling by train – always reminds me of our days travelling around Europe on what were known as Transalpino tickets....

We met up at the very busy Four Marys for a couple of drinks before heading to Marynka for dinner...

I opened with scallops and crispy bacon and continued with the beef fillet – all very tasty and we sat and shot the breeze till we were the last people in the place, possibly overdoing matters by drinking three bottles of excellent French Rose between us...

One final drink at Platform 3 by the station before catching the train back to Haymarket and a night bus back to Crispycat Towers...

An excellent night in good company...

Highlight of the Day : Out with Ken & Rose

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

you should come and sample some of that french rose that you like so much sur place one day. It tastes better here than under the grey skies of Edinburgh...!

Cloudland Blue Quartet said...

..and considerably cheaper too I'd warrant....

Anonymous said...

Indeed....even with the pound limping along in a wounded sort of a way....