King Crimson – Asbury Park 1974
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Soundingfall
Various – Best Xmas EP in the World...Ever
Haydn – Complete Piano Sonatas
Shawn Colvin – Polaroids
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Various – Singles Oct 08
Various – Happy Songs
Various – The Best Disco Album in the World...Ever
Dido – Safe Trip Home
Up at 5:50 and listening to more King Crimson – this time the concert from Asbury Park in 1974...
Unfortunately, as seems often to be the case, I have been struck by the Xmas Lurgi...
No matter, I soldiered on to the PC and worked on an idea for “My House Could Be Your Home”, involving the deletion of a verse, the moving of another and some mucking about with guitar sounds...
We’ll see...
Anne eventually woke around 9am and it was time for the present opening...
I suddenly realised I’d forgotten to wrap and put out three of Anne’s presents and, while Slade blasted out in the living room I dashed upstairs to rectify my oversight...
There were some exciting surprises amongst our gifts, along with items which had been included in our letters to the North Pole...
In the afternoon, after “The Two Ronnies” and the compiling of a Xmas 90 Album MP3 DVD for sister Pam, we were off out to Loanhead for dinner...
It was good to see our nephews Andrew and Alastair again – their chat is very entertaining indeed – Andrew is a DJ and Alastair a plumber – unfortunately sister Sheila was ill in bed with the flu and couldn’t attend, while her husband (also) Andrew, was working...
Pam did a splendid job preparing the main course while my mum chipped in with her signature prawn cocktail as a starter...
All too soon though the boys had to set off, Andrew to work and Alastair to his girlfriend’s house for another Xmas dinner...
The remaining quartet settled down to watch the Dr Who special which was opined to be much better than last year’s Kylie Minogue related travesty...
We had agreed to pick up and take home Anne’s mum from her brother Keith’s Xmas do and so, with my cold starting to take an annoying hold, we set off around 8:30pm and headed over to Leith to the house of Keith’s neighbour, the professor...
The hosts prepared me a Lemsip while Anne partook of a tasty wee port and some excellent chat was enjoyed, before we headed home, dropping off Anne’s mum on the way...
We watched the “Blackadder” documentary and then I headed to bed with Dido – on the headphones that is...
A good end to my 50th Xmas Day on the planet...
Highlight of the Day : It was Christmas Day!!
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