The first day...

Playlist
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies
Various – Top 22 Jazz Albums of 2008 on Shuffleplay
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Mogwai – The Hawk is Howling
Robert Fripp & King Crimson – Various DGM Downloads
Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider
Various – Rock & Pop Albums of 2008 on Shuffleplay
Purcell – Instrumental Music
Girls Aloud – Tangled Up Live at O2 (DVD)
Various Composers – Top Classical Albums of 2008 on Shuffleplay
Pet Shop Boys - Concrete

Despite retiring after 2am, I was awake at 5:30 for an opening salvo of the Coop for 2009, then downstairs listening to my best jazz albums of 2008 whilst leafing through my Penguin Guide to Jazz to read any opinions thereon...

Then to the computer to write up last night and create some “Best of 2008” playlists on the various jukeboxes...

At midday, Anne finally emerged and we watched the second half of the New Year’s Day concert from Vienna...

Then, to combat my starting to fall asleep, we took a stroll for an hour in our “garden” – the wonderful space that is Corstorphine Hill...



Back home for coffee and to watch the Girls Aloud DVD I received from Anne for Xmas...

Excellent...

After tea some terrestrial telly – “Three Men in a Number of Boats” (or something) and “Jonathan Creek” – entertained...

To bed before midnight with the Pet Shop Boys at the end of the first day of the year...

Highlight of the Day : Girls Aloud and a nice walk...