Preparation through compilation...

Playlist

Yo Yo Ma - Vivaldi's Cello

Sor - Guitar Duets, Vol. 1

Eric Carmen - All By Myself

Asia/Boston - Winning Combinations

Sarah MacDougall - Across the Atlantic

Various - Dub

The Tragically Hip - The Tragically Hip

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Leonard Cohen EP

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Dakota Starman EP

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Various - October Hit Singles

Good skies this morning...

...and a new baby, chum Paula's, was introduced to the Billion Dollar Baby's head...

A fruitless, apart from the exercise, walk to Fopp at lunchtime...

In the afternoon, the feeding station was being enjoyed by a squirrel and observed by the Exec Producer...

  

In the evening, after some tasty chicken with roast potatoes and excellent shredded cabbage (I do like excellent shredded cabbage), I had planned some possible portions of these...

  

However, correspondence with brother-in-law Bobby...

 ...re the weekend's celebrations re sister-in-law Jane's birthday tomorrow, prepped for today by Olly and Kitty...

...led to your correspondent setting about compiling a playlist of 51 October hit singles, from Ken Dodd's "Tears", number one on 10/10/65, through to Demi Lovato's "Cool For The Summer", a current hit apparently, which features in Kitty's present top ten...

Here's the full list of artists featured...

You might like to work out who had an October hit in which year...

Abba

Bryan Adams

Adele

Alice Cooper

Bay City Rollers

The Beach Boys

David Bowie

The Buggles

Cars

Cheryl

Coldplay

Creedence Clearwater Revival

Dido

Ken Dodd

Duran Duran

Electric Light Orchestra

The Emotions

David Essex

Erasure

Aretha Franklin

Dario G

Girls Aloud

Heart

The Jam

Japan

Elton John

Kiss

Avril Lavigne

Huey Lewis & The News

Demi Lovato

Madonna

Maria McKee

Kylie Minogue

James Morrison

The Move

Freda Payne

Katy Perry

Pet Shop Boys

Eric Prydz

Psy

The Rembrandts

Scissor Sisters

Snap!

Spice Girls

Rod Stewart

Sweet

Meghan Trainor

Shania Twain

Tears For Fears

Robbie Williams

Amy Winehouse

...then again, you might not...

Other than that, a new drama was introduced - "Unforgiven" - very promising...

Lights out with a history of pop music in the cans...

Highlight of the Day : Compiling...