Just having fun...

Playlist
Dido – Safe Trip Home
Sigur Ros – I Eyrum Vir Spilum Endalaust
The Killers – Day and Age
Brian Eno – Biography Soundtrack (CD-R)
Nico – The Aura Anthology
Leonard Cohen – Various Positions
Shawn Colvin – Polaroids
Iggy Pop – New Values
Iggy Pop – Soldier
Iggy Pop – Party
Various – Tighten Up Vols 1 &23
Various- Trojan Dub Massive Chapter Two
Various – Is It Rolling Bob? Dub Versions
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Up at 5:30 feeling gruesome...

Downstairs and took the opportunity of this “quiet time” to listen to Xmas acquisitions whilst reading the opening chapters of the Brian Eno biography, “On Some Faraway Beach”...

Upstairs and created a compilation soundtrack for the book, the tracklisting being the chapter titles...

“Wallace and Gromit” entertained before we headed for the bus terminus to travel to Jane and Bobby’s...



An excellent afternoon/evening ensued, pervaded by an unbridled sense of fun – I handed out presents I’d bought for all and sundry, CDs, DVDs and books and watched as Ollie and Kitty opened more presents...

The champagne flowed, as did the wine, as we played chocolate trivial pursuit – if you answered just one of the three questions correctly, you got to eat the chocolate question card....

Dinner was the highlight, with partridge and turkey on offer preceded by a starter of various fish dishes including anchovies, salmon mouse, salmon itself, trout etc...

A large home made trifle, home made roulade and (not for me) cheeseboard rounded matters off...

During the post meal game, I managed to reduce poor wee Ollie to tears – the object was to describe three people and have the assembled throng guess their identities, the third person being someone kids might know...

Now, if I was to say that the individual in question’s catch phrase was “Can we build it? Yes we can?”, and you were seven years old, would you say (a) Bob the Builder or (b) Barack Obama in order to try and ensure your uncle won the game?

Kitty was soon bawling her lungs out too when I told nephew Craig (22) that she (4) preferred her school friend Lennon (5) to him...

Oh dear, evil Uncle David...

The evening continued with an entertaining game of "Blankety Blank" and ended in a rather inebriated and somewhat extended game of Sing Star, with the Exec Producer winning every bout she was involved in, excelling with Pet Shop Boys as usual...

Your correspondent was also “reasonable” at “Smoke on the Water”...

Bus home and off to bed, tired but happy...

Highlight of the Day : Food, fun and games...