Gilardino - Trascendentia : Complete Studies for Guitar
Einaudi - Waves The Piano Collection
Bartók - String Quartets (Rubin Quartet)
Crusell - Complete Clarinet Quartets
Various - Disco Discharge: Euro Disco
Isaac Hayes - The Best Of The Polydor Years
Starer - Excursions For A Pianist
Various - Ministry of Sound : The Chillout Session
Chick Corea - Remembering Bud Powell
Castiglioni - Piano Works
J S Bach - Goldberg Variations for Prepared Piano
Refugee - Refugee
Starer - Solo Piano Music, 1946-1996
Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure
Lidl - Divertimenti for Baryton Trio
Various - Backbeats - I Get My Groove
Jacaszek - Catalogue des Arbres
Stokes - String Quartets 1-3
Limmer - Piano Quintets
Various - Punky Reggae Selecta
Various Composers - Strange Attractors
T Rex - Electric Warrior (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Nits - Kilo
Nadine - Insatiable
Herman Van Veen - Kersvers
Udo Lindenberg - Atlantic Affairs
Various - Disco Discharge: Euro Disco
Nits - Henk
Welcher - String Quartets #1-3
LeFanu - Catena for Eleven Solo Strings
Pizzetti - Complete Piano Works
Kronos Quartet - White Man Sleeps
Various - Backbeats - Soul Time
Von Bingen - O Orzchis Ecclesia
Thomas Köner - La Barca (Complete Edition)
Udo Lindenberg - Hermine
Balanescu Quartet - Byrne, Moran, Lurie & Torke
Maxwell Davies - Caroline Mathilde; Threnody; Ojai Festival Overture; St Thomas Wake
Eddie Harris - E.H. In The U.K.
Emerson Lake & Palmer - High Voltage 25/7/2010
Deep Purple - Burn
Nazareth - Loud 'n' Proud
Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick
The Damned - Music For Pleasure
Sparks - Introducing Sparks
A kind of busy Saturday...
Up at six and amended the iPhone music content back to the 70 or so latest acquisitions...
Out into the sun around 8...
A bird photo bombed this sun shot...
The beast was about its business...
Down the hill...
And along...
...past the zoo...
...and Jane and Bobby's house...
...and on...
...past the Chinese Consulate and Murrayfield Stadium...
...and the strange gardened guest house...
...on...
...to Roseburn...
..and an appointment with Helen the Podiatrist, seen here on the right...
Her chum, Susie the Beautician, tends to the needs of the Exec Producer of an occasion...
Out again after 15 minutes, feet feeling good...
A bus part of the way home, before collecting breakfast and lunch provisions...
...followed by further walking...
...and back to where I'd started two hours previously...
Breakfast...
...and then, into the attic, While Anne worked in the garden....
Two previous computers were brought back down...
...and various elements were removed...
Two possible external hard drives...
Not sure of what use these will be though...
Last week's internet purchase arrived - a jazz fusion title from Eddie Harris, featuring Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye from Yes, Boz Burrell form King Crimson/Bad Company, Jeff Beck, Albert Lee and Steve Winwood amongst the players - top notch...
A break for lunch in the back garden as we listened to The Rangers park a bus in front of their goal and lose 1-0 to Hibernian but still progress to the play off final against Motherwell - come on the Steel Men...
Back into the attic and some progress made - the tip beckons once again tomorrow...
The majority of my day was spent in the attic while the sun shone outside...
Small tasty tagliatelle for tea accompanied by the penultimate "Atlantis" on the Tivo, before we headed to Jane and Bobby's for an evening of Eurovision with the kids...
Olly is just back from a week in Berlin and showed us his photos - very impressive indeed from the young man...
At 8 it as time for four hours of pop nonsense...
Kitty organised our score cards, crisps and juice and off we went - with some Kitty choreography to the fore...
Later on, she was a bit cold and had to resort to wearing Uncle David's huge cardigan...
Olly was concentrating on scoring each song...
With the singing over and the half time entertainment being shown...
...we added up our scores...
Anne's score sheet was to the point...
I attempted a graph to illustrate the highs and lows...
Olly's rendering of every flag in the contest from memory (he is a flag man) was impressive...
...and Kitty's doodles entertained too...
Before the voting began, our judges panel declared Sweden the winner...
Here are our individual favourites
Anne - Sweden/Australia (10), Norway (9), France/Spain/Italy (8)
David - Sweden/Belgium (9), France/Serbia/Norway/Australia/Latvia/Russia (8)
Olly - Lithuania/Spain/Italy (10), Israel/Estonia/Norway/Sweden/Australia/Romania/Russia (9)
Kitty - Sweden (10), Australia/Spain (9), France/Israel/Norway/Cyprus/Romania (8)
Our combined opinion?
Sweden , Australia, Spain, Norway, France, Russia, Romania, Italy, Lithuania, Serbia
..and the actual result?
Sweden, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Australia, Latvia, Estonia, Norway, Israel, Serbia
Six out of ten...
I was the only one of us championing Belgium and Latvia - the most "out there but good" entries...
Of course before the voting had been completed, Olly was off upstairs to pay football over the net with his chums and Kitty had conked out...
Rafa the Dog was still up for some action though...
Jane and Bobby arrived home just as Sweden were declared winners, an entertaining evening having been had but surely not as entertaining as ours...
All the songs - including those knocked out in the semi finals - a recap...
The winner...
Highlight of the Day : Eurovision with the kids...
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