Candleman...

Playlist
Dorham/Clark/Gordon/Green – Shuffleplay
Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full
Alice Cooper – Ballads 1975-2008 (2CD-R)
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Tracks from the Crispycat Library

Late to rise today – 7am...

Listening to all the discs I have on the jazz jukebox by the boys I bought yesterday...

Intended to write this but got caught up in updating my list of “Blue Note Albums I Have” and, before I knew it, Anne was awake and it was time for breakfast...

Weather - bright and cold...

Today we visited Café Citron for a change – they do an excellent bacon roll and Americano deal...

A quick visit to Homebase for new bathroom door handles and to M&S for some groceries, then home – to find the handles will need more work than we thought and the drill needs recharged...

So that’s for tomorrow...

Decided to tidy out the computer room and ended up with a set of very tidy shelves but books all over the floor...

More work for the coming week...

A visit to Italy in late Spring to celebrate 50 years is on the cards...

Spent a couple of hours compiling and burning a 2CD set of Alice Cooper ballads for brother-in-law Bobby who is impressed with “Only Women Bleed” as featured on “The Beast of Alice Cooper” which he recently obtained from Fopp for £3...

To Anne’s mum’s for Anne’s birthday tea which, as it was Burns Night, comprised Haggis, Neeps and Tatties – and very tasty it was too – followed by home made chocolate cake and ice cream...

Bobby fully expects to see a pic of himself lighting the lone candle – he has just discovered the blog (four years down the line) after his cousin revealed how it was he knew that Bob had recently become a convert to Progressive Rock...

So here you go Roberto...

Ollie and Kitty had a good time tonight as we firstly made place names for everyone who was to attend – spelling all their names intentionally wrongly – then making films with the Cloudland camera...

Ollie; Craig; Kitty

Nephew Craig was present for the first time for a couple of months and regaled us with tales of his job at a local hotel, the bar of which routinely runs out of such staples as vodka, wine and beer...

The restaurant meanwhile offers (a) macaroni cheese when they have no macaroni (but they do offer to replace it with tagliatelle) and (b) fish and chips – despite having no fish...

Other stories involved student cooking – he trumped my “spaghetti with a tin of baked beans” by giving us “pasta with Heinz Tomato Ketchup and mayonnaise” – the recipe comprised leaving a wee bit of the hot water in the pasta, adding the mayonnaise and then, only once the mayo has “marinated” the pasta, adding the ketchup...

Back home, wrote this up for the weekend while testing the Crispycat Library following tales from Bob of being unable to listen to tracks – glad to report no problem at this end Bob...

Very late doors a knockback re accommodation – the search continues...

A reasonable weekend all told...

Highlight of the Day : Planning a trip...