A day of things not quite happening the way we'd have liked...

Playlist

Gabi Delgado - Zwei

Rhys Chatham - Works 1977-2009

Haken - Affinity

Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit

Herman Van Veen - Fallen oder Springen

Udo Lindenberg - Odyssee

Sia - Chandelier (Single)

Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook - Dark Side of the Moog Vols 5-8

Chicago - Live In Japan 1972

Up early and the updating of this - always a huge chore post a trip - commenced...

Downloaded around 2 hours of music by New York musician Rhys Chatham after a brief online chat with a Twitterchum re the suggestion that RC may, at one time, have worked with Robert Fripp - which turned out not to be the case...

Nonetheless, recommended...

Both sets of headphones I use on a day to day basis have been pronounced goosed so I accompanied Anne down to PC World and to Tesco in search of new ones...

First, to PC World to attempt to return my latest camera, due to a fault which has developed recently - the camera, when it switches on, will often drift completely out of focus...

Of course, whilst trying to demonstrate this to the young man, who was, it must be said, more than happy to give me a replacement if I could prove the fault, much switching of the thing on and off (probably around 40 times), did not succeed in showing up the fault once...

Typical...

I left with my metaphorical tail between my actual legs...

To Tesco, where I met Anne mid-shop for tomorrow's visit by Jane, Bobby, Olly, Kitty and Anne's mum for the fortnightly family tea (Keith & Maureen are in London this weekend)...

What turned out to be very good new nutcans had been procured...

Off I went into town, the new German purchases soundtracking my trip...

To Princes St, scene of the camera purchase in December (and first replacement re a fault inside the lens a month or so later) but I still couldn't get the fault to show...

Subsequent on the hoof pictures taken...

Into HMV...

Aha!

...but I wasn't confident enough of its playing up to venture back to PC World...

Up past the Museum to the library, to return borrowed items - nothing new taken...

A march noted...

To Princes St and to Fopp - nothing enticed...

A bus home...

...where this waited...

Live in Japan 1972 - a Japan release only at the time, which aficionados reckon outdoes the released at the time Carnegie Hall 4LP set...

Tasty...

An early afternoon of further updating and listening and taking of Anne to her mum's for them to venture to Tyncastle to watch what was apparently a dire game wherein their beloved Jam Tarts could only manage a draw against Ross County...

Whilst they were doing this, I drove over to Loanhead with the laptop to show my mum the holiday photos...

It was going well till, half way through Wednesday, she hit a button on the laptop, rendering the display onto its side...

Oh well, it was time to pick Anne up anyway...

In my haste to leave, I forgot my house keys, wallet and errant camera...

Idiot...

Second coffee and cake of the afternoon at Anne's mum's - where I fixed the laptop and showed her the pics...

In the evening, we commenced our watch of "The Hollow Crown" - a run through Shakespeare's "king" plays - with "Richard II" - which was deemed very good indeed, with sterling performances from Ben Whishaw and Rory Kinnear and from Patrick Stewart and David Suchet...

We were "taping" the first in the new series while we watched the DVD, which has lain, still shrink-wrapped, on the shelf for, probably, 3 years...

At the end of "Richard II", we noted that (a) we had not recorded the new play and (b) the mince re tomorrow's lasagne had accidentally remained cooking for a good two or three hours longer than planned - though luckily at a very low heat...

So, all in all a day of things not quite happening the way we'd have liked but a good day nonetheless...

Highlight of the Day : Richard II