Saturday not Saturday...

Playlist

Klavierduo Huber/Thomet - Monolithen : Debussy, Zimmermann & Strawinsky

Various - Funk Soul Brothers

Various - Hotdogs, Hits & Happy Days

Abba - Gold: Greatest Hits

Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht

Various Composers - Classic CD (1990)

Shura Cherkassky - Wigmore Hall Live

Creek - Creek 2015

The Cure - Mixed Up

Ike Quebec - Blue And Sentimental

Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe

John Foxx - The Garden

Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox

Chick Corea - Inner Space

Various - Blue Note Trip - Gettin' Up/Goin' Down

Various - Blue Note Trip - Sunrise/Sunset

Various - Beginner's Guide to African Funk

Al Green - Greatest Hits: The Best of Al Green

Copland - Symphony No. 3, Clarinet Concerto

Michiel Borstlap - Gramercy Park

Bartók - Concerto for Orchestra

Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - Tarkus

Keith Emerson Band - Tarkus

Asia - Budokan, December 1983

Billy Cobham - Rudiments

The Revolutionaries - Discography

Up early...

A nice cup of coffee to start the day which, although it was a Friday, seemed, all day, to be a Saturday...

African Funk soundtracked our drive into Edinburgh at lunchtime for Anne to meet up with Lynn for a long, leisurely lunch...

Meanwhile, I was off out to see my mum...

She has a huge bruise on her leg from a fall yesterday - nothing untoward - she had a visitor and had let her in then, while walking back to her chair, turned round to quickly to speak to her friend and promptly fell over...

Her red button had to be pressed and, 30 minutes later, a couple of young men turned up with an inflatable chair to get her back on her feet...

Meanwhile, sister Sheila has also picked up the results of mum's new prescriptions...

My mum does like a drug or two...

A wee drive around the environs before heading home...

Loanhead...

Polton Brae - the bus stop where I used to get the bus home from school...

...a school which has now been knocked down - where it stood are the new school's playing fields...

...while the new school..

...sits on what were the old school's playing fields...

Bonnyrigg...

The hall where, on Sundays in 1978 and 1979, your correspondent could be found rehearsing with his bands...

The shop on the left in the pic below used to be a Co-Op - I bought Geoff Love & His Orchestra's TV Theme Tunes here in 1974 - and, I think, "Tiger Feet" by Mud...

The building with the dimpled windows is the Masonic Hall - where many a Boys Brigade disco was enjoyed - school chum Nick Robertson and his disco, StoneCross, provided the entertainment - I particularly remember "Burlesque", "Jig a Jig", "Elected", "Come to the Sabbat" and "Reason to Believe"...

So that would be 1972...

Between the Church Hall and the Masonic Hall, stood "The Edinburgh Rock" (now flats) - where Sparks records were enjoyed in early 1974 and the Bay City Rollers were tolerated...

Back home and this had arrived - just ninety nine of your English new pence for a brand new shrink wrapped 3CD set by jazz pianist and Bill Bruford collaborator, Michiel Borstlap...

Some listening and ripping until Anne arrived home, having had a good time out with Lynn...

"Brooklyn Nine Nine" and "Big Bang" entertained, as did, later on, the return of "Boomers"...

Some Billy Cobham and Revolutionaries, Pet Shop Boys on Graham Norton, "Room 101" and off to bed...

Tomorrow is Saturday again...

Highlight of the Day : Reminiscing...