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Playlist
Kensington Prairie – Captured in Still Life
No Horses – No Horses
Sarah Harmer – We Were Here
City and Colour – Sometimes
Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light
Holy F*ck – LP
Various Composers – Radio 3 Broadcasts
Various – Jazz and Classical Jukebox Shuffleplay
Blank Dogs – On Two Sides
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Tortoise – Standards
Hawkwind – Epocheclipse Anthology (3CD)

Couldn’t sleep so got up around 2am and went down to watch teletext while listening to my new CDs...

Turned in around 3:30 and soon got to sleep only to be woken buy the alarm at 6:45 as I was to take the car to Arnold Clark today because the CD Player isn’t working...

Left the house at 7:50 and returned around 10:30 having enjoyed a walk along Portobello Beach while Arnold Clark took an hour and a half to tell me the CD Player wasn’t working and they’d need to order a new one – you’d think, being a Seat dealer, they might have some replacements in stock, but that’s asking too much of course...



So it’ll be at least another week with no decent music in the car...

Back home wrote up more of the diary entries for the holiday...

After viewing all 1,100 pics from the Canada trip (soundtracked by songs from the CDs bought during it) Anne had to go for a sleep in the afternoon – it seems we’re both still somewhat jet-lagged (or the pics were particularly boring – I’m sure it wasn’t the latter)...

Up again by 4, she set off over to fife to meet up with some of her work colleagues for a drink, while I watched a DVD of Canadian band Stars, which came free with the CD I bought by them a few weeks ago, before taking the bus on the 90 minute journey from Corstorphine over to the Royal Infirmary to visit my mum – accompanied on the way by the raucous space noise of the mighty Hawkwind...

Despite her procedure having been inconclusive, mum was in good spirits and we chatted for an unprecedented hour and a half before I set off for Crispycat Towers around 8pm, taking a mere 75 minutes to get home...

An excellent dinner awaited comprising chicken breast with pesto and carmelised onions with tastily dressed salad...

TV tonight comprised “Al Murray’s Happy Hour” followed by “Harry and Paul” – and I have to say that one sketch from the latter was funnier than the entire content of the former...

We watched Stevie Wonder on Jonathon Ross (which made me want to get my Stevie Wonder records out) before retiring around 1am...

Highlight of the Day : Harry & Paul...