Rickenbacker boy...

Playlist
UK- Danger Money
Tangerine Dream – Ricochet
UNKLE – End Titles...Stories for Film
Fripp & Eno – Paris Olympia 28/5/75 (CD-R)
UK – The Best of UK (CD-R)
Alexis On Fire – Crisis
Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime II
Bartok – Rhapsodies Nos 1&2; Piano Quintet
Donald Byrd – Fuego
The Church – Starfish
King Crimson – Live at Park West, Chicago, 07/08/08

To bed at 2am with headphones as loud as possible (without being audible to the Executive Producer) in order to drown out the neighbour’s boiler pump...

Awoke around 7 to hear it still going, on again off again once every minute (as ever) so UK and T Dream did their best to send me back to the land of nod - but to no avail...

Anyway, up and listened to UNKLE as I did the dishes, then transferred the Canadian pics for printing, on to a CD to take into town...

At 9:15 we were off and listening to more UK on the brand new replacement CD player in the Cloudland Blue Mobile – it seems to be ok...

To Patisserie Florentin and, who should we find sitting outside enjoying a coffee in the morning sun but old chum, ex-Pure Bear and erstwhile co-member of Disco Complex, Mr George Coleman...



Always a delight to see George and he came inside with us where we enjoyed a good old chinwag about this that and the next thing, including the current state of the art market...

George illustrates for comic books and has an exhibition coming up in January at Newington library in town – so hopefully we’ll get along to that...

Our little trio made its way on foot from Stockbridge up to Princes St where we bade farewell to George and hoped it wouldn’t be so long till we saw him again...

Into Boots and ordered the 100 or so photos via a self service machine - they should be available for pick up tomorrow...

A trendy wee scarf for Anne after a trawl through the neighbouring clothing emporia before we walked back down to Stockbridge where I snaffled three CDs for under £9 at Oxfam – Bartok, Queensryche and Alexis On Fire (as opposed to Alex Is On Fire), for which recent Canadian discovery, Dallas Green of City and Colour, plays geetar and sings BVs...



Meanwhile Anne was procuring a loaf and some freshly made pate and goat’s cheese from Herbie’s Deli for lunch, which occurred once we’d driven home...

While Anne was off at Tynecastle, watching Hearts win ugly, 1-0 against Inverness (and while QoS drew 2-2 with St Johnstone in Dumfries – Big Jim Thomson scoring for both sides), I spent most of the afternoon mucking about with the Canadian photos, updating the diary, playing a couple of songs to no-one but Meg the Black Cat and trying to get someone on the Hearts message board to help Anne out re our PC’s seeming inability to show any videos from the Hearts site to which she subscribes for an unfeasibly hefty sum each year...

It’s definitely autumn now of course as “Strictly Come Dancing” has started, along with this year’s replacement for “Robin Hood”, “Merlin”, which is described in the Radio Times as being aimed at Harry Potter fans – heaven help us...

Well it wasn’t as bad as that – not quite – and no doubt it’ll become another staple of nonsense for Mr CBQ on a Saturday night...

A very tasty Indian followed and a (I know this is such an overused adjective these days but) “fascinating” programme, on the life a woman living in Medieval times in Merrie Olde Englande – in fact near where Sister Pam lives now – and her and her contemporaries’ plight at the hands of the then (prior to the impact of the Black Death which wiped out 50% of the country’s population and put labour at a premium – and the subsequent Peasants’ Revolt) all powerful church...

Fascinating indeed...

Avoiding “Casualty”, I uploaded recent acquisitions to the various Jukeboxes and listened to some music till “Match of the Day” and the end of the first half of yet another weekend...

Hard to believe it’s four weeks ago today that we set off for the West Coast of Canada - but such is life approaching 50, time whizzes by like something that whizzes in a very fast way...

Dammit...

Highlight of the Day : An unplanned meet with a good old friend...