Various - Last 1,000 Acquisitions on Shufflelplay
Various - 650 Albums on Shuffleplay
Paul McCartney - Tug of War
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Back to Front
Soft Cell - The Hits
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Roxy Music - Flesh & Blood
Up just after seven...
Integrating a goodly number of CDs, relegated upstairs from the shelf in the living room over the past few weeks as the acquisitions have rolled in...
Around two hours doing this...
This is how I waste my time...
Out into the garden around 9:40...
...and drove to Roseburn...
...where we enjoyed an initial coffee and some chat before setting off on the walk along the water of Leith...
...past the still face down in the river Gormley statue...
...to Stockbridge...
...and a late breakfast at Patisserie Florentin...
At nearby Voxbox, I finally managed to redeem a credit note received six months ago re some LPs traded in...
I was reduced to taking discs by Paul McCartney and, the now rehabilitated, Gilbert O'Sullivan - once in a band with Supertramp's Rick Davies, who taught him to play piano...
There are a couple of pretty good tracks on each album - a good wordsmith I grudgingly admit...
He was the top selling artist of 1972 in the UK - I would have thought T Rex, Slade or Gary Glitter might have outsold him...
A two disc set by Soft Cell, which includes, of the 28 songs in the collection, 15 which I don't already have on other compilations by the duo, rounded things off at Voxbox...
Then, further down into Stockbridge and a disc of minimalism from the Shelter shop joined the fray...
Back along the river...
What's this?
Well, I do believe it's...
...the Stockbridge Heron...
Back the way we came...
...complete with a swan...
...and another delightful beastie...
...and, almost exactly three hours after parking, we were back at the car...
At home, nice bread from the deli in Stockbridge sustained, while I listened to McCartney and O'Sullivan and we enjoyed the footie results...
After beating reasonably local rivals Starnraer and with Brodski's Alloa overcoming second top Forfar, Queens are now six points clear at the top of Division 2...
Meanwhile Brodski's "other" team, "The Rangers FC" had none of the jam from last week and lost to this morning's bottom team in Division 3 (i.e. the worst team in the Scottish League prior till today), Stirling Albion...
The Sevco fans took great delight a couple of weeks back in saying their team was obviously the best in Scotland, when they defeated the then top team in the SPL, Motherwell, in the League Cup ...
I take it they will realise that, by the same skewed logic, they are now the worst team in Scotland...
Oh dear...
Not quite going according to plan...
In the evening, Anne was out for a meal and a Ghost Tour with chums, leaving me to watch "Teminator : The Sarah Connor Chonicles", a couple of programmes on ELO's Jeff Lynne from last night and to listen to the weekend's haul of music thus far...
Highlight of the day : Queens doing well...
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