Genesis – The Lamb Dies Down on Broadway
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Undercover
Alice Cooper – I’ll Bite Your Face Off/Caffeine
Miles Davis – Star People
Jack Bruce – Can You Follow?
Brian Eno – Vocal Box
Brian Eno – Instrumental Box
Craig Armstrong – As If To Nothing
August away...
Up at 6:30 and, once again, the holiday update took ages re uploading the pics – c’est la guerre...
Also finished the ripping of Miles Davis and Jack Bruce...
After breakfast, a call to the Oxfam Music Shop to ensure they’d be interested in the CD jewel cases I now have which are surplus to requirements following the great “Burned CDs to Plastic Wallets” project...
They confirmed they would be so, around 500 were put into two big bags and a charity run ensued with these being taken there and two large bags of clear-out clothes going to the nearby Cancer research shop...
To nearby Costa for flat whites and a tasty chocolate based pastries...
Shopping for a present for mum’s birthday – mission accomplished with a dainty silver chain and pendant...
Camera at home charging up...
Over to the library to hand back the Miles Davis and Jack Bruce box sets...
Back home and the remains of last night lasagne for lunch as we watched the Will Smith vehicle,“Hancock” which was very funny in places but also had a darker side and an interesting premise which wasn’t developed far enough...
In the end, entertaining but I think it struggled to be one thing or another...
The rest of the afternoon was spent alphabetising all the CDs in plastic wallets, helped of course by the attentions of Meg the Black Cat...
In the evening, out to Loanhead to pick up mum and sister Pam and take them to the Howgate for mum’s birthday dinner...
Mum liked her present...
The ladies were looking good...
We were joined there by Sheila for a very enjoyable family night out with loads of laughs and superb tasty fayre...
Pam was on form with her famous mis-naming – e.g. Cullen Skunk and mixing our recently visited French Restaurant (La P’tite Folie) with a Danone yoghurt product...
Meanwhile Sheila seemed to be listening intently as I, having burned the roof off of my mouth with the Cullen Skink and a couple of my later hand cut ships, wondered when it might have been that human mouths evolved to allow us to eat hot food, only to announce to the others at the end of my eloquent speech “I can’t make out a word he’s saying”...
A three hour restaurant visit was rounded of with coffees, hot chocolates with marchmallows and a lovely strawberries, meringue and ice cream based sweet for the birthday girl...
A lift home for mum and Pam and them back to Crispycat Towers, where a Steve Martin film, “Bringing Down the House” rounded off the day, taking us into tomorrow...
Highlight of the Day : Birthday night out...
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