Flowers are a flowering...

Playlist

A Troop Of Echoes - The Longest Year On Record

Françoise Hardy - The Real... Françoise Hardy

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Sly & Robbie - Riddim: The Best of Sly & Robbie in Dub 1978-1985

Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps a Record

Einaudi - Nightbook

Lachenmann - Piano Portrait

Pet Shop Boys - Super

Martin Tchiba - Linkages

Sardelli - Concerti, Psaumes, Musique De Chambre - Modo Antiquo

Laura Pausini - Entre el Principio y el Fin

Krauze - Piano Works

2raumwohnung - Melancholisch Schön

Circus Maximus - Havoc

Lachenmann - Ausklang

Elvin Jones - Elvin!

Alice Cooper - The Ballads 1969-2011

Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday

Various - Silence Is Golden

The Animals - The Most Of The Animals

Alice Cooper - Singles Real & Imaginary 1965-2011

Neeme Järvi: Royal Scottish National Orchestra - Elegy - Music For Strings

Various Composers - Deutsche Grammophon : Original Masters : The Singles

Yes - Drama

Various - Anthologie De La Chanson Française

Various - California Dreaming

Recent acquisitions on shuffleplay today as I stepped out the back door, which is guarded by the faded Hearts Gnome...

Flowers are a flowering...

...and buds are stirring...

A good walk at lunchtime after much overindulgence this weekend - a small salad from M&S and a visit to Fopp, picking up this re-release for £3 - the same price as the salad...



On the way home, the beast was about its business up on Crispycat Hill...

...where good trees were noted...

...as they were on the walk down to Crispycat Towers...

...where these were behind the door...

And so, other than "Person of Interest" and "Marcella", an evening of ripping and listening ensued - including trying to finalise this week's podcast line up...

Highlight of the Day : New music...