Telly and podcasting and the weather...

Playlist

Black Widow - Black Widow III

Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner

Grobschnitt - Ballermann

The Beatles - Chronology

Laurie Anderson - United States Live

Laurie Anderson - Home Of The Brave

John Cale - Paris 1919

Trevor Rabin - Face To Face

Journey - Raised On Radio

Fauré - Chamber Music

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti - Deluxe CD Edition

Nancy Wilson - Love - 120 Original Hits

Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

Flying Colors - Island Of The Lost Keyboards: Neal's Mix

Rare Earth - Ma

The Tubes - Outside Inside

Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Show

The Bad Plus - Epic Bad Plus

Fuchs - Complete String Quartets, Vol. 1

The Who - Join Together (live)

Carly Simon - The Best Of Bond... James Bond

Joe Henderson - If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem

Various - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One

Various - Written In A Song

Various - Move On Up: The Very Best Of Northern Soul

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Kitaro - Ten Years (1976-1986)

Dominic Waxing Lyrical - Woodland Casual

Alphaville - Forever Young

King Crimson - Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind

Jack-Knife - Jack-Knife

Schoenberg - Pierrot Lunaire; Serenade; Die eiserne Brigade

Torke - Book Of Proverbs

And it's au revoir to March...

  

This wee monkey spotted on a neighbour's garage roof as I opened the curtains on the world...

Not fang but another "the Black Cat" from the environs...

Nice flowers in the kitchen, courtesy of the EP...

..and lovely weather today as the beast went about its business...

...and home under blue skies...

...whilst listening to enjoyable music...

With the EP under the weather, an evening of telly ensued - although I did record the links for tomorrow's podcast whilst "Coronation St" was enjoyed downstairs...

This, the latest random addition to the collection, will be featured...

A call from sister Sheila to advise mum not 100% so we'll pop out tomorrow for a visit...

Telly highlights - "Big Bang" some Evelyn Waugh thing and "Harry Hill's Alien Something or Other"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Telly and podcasting and the weather...

I Am the DJ Pt 342...

Playlist

Various - I Am the DJ Pt 342

Various - Move On Up: The Very Best Of Northern Soul

Various Composers - The Pity Of War - Songs & Poems Of Wartime Suffering

Sun Ra - The Futuristic Sound of Sun Ra and his Arkestra

Torgeir Waldemar - No Offending Borders

Parliament - The Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein

Various - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One

Pat Metheny, Dave Holland & Roy Haynes - Question And Answer

Various - Love - 120 Original Hits

John Coltrane - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

Various - The Best Seventies Album In the World ...Ever! II

Brouwer - The Black Decameron
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Deeperdown
Kiss - Destroyer
Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat
Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
The Skids - Scared To Dance

Much of the day today, possibly too much, re a retirement do...

Your correspondent's DJ Mixes went down a treat...

Home, slightly the worse for wear, at 1am...

This joined the collection re the Random Number Generator...

Lights out...

Hihglight of the Day : Appreciation for my music mixing...

Back to the fixer...

Playlist

Various - Original Soul Classics

Journey - The Essential Journey

Various - Happy Songs

Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealth

Various - Rough Guide To Salsa Dance

Various - The Best Of Bond... James Bond

Crazy Wisdom - The Reptile Tapes

Sade - The Best Of Sade

Sonny Rollins - On Impulse!

Various - Love Actually OST

Various - Années 80 Vol 2

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McClure

Various - The Best Seventies Album In the World ...Ever! II

Rheostatics - Horseshoe Tavern , Toronto, 2016-12-10

Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealth

Santana - Lotus

Joshua Redman - Trios Live

Bootsy's Rubber Band - Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby!

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Break the Ice Around Us

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Starlightnight

This morning, no cats in the house but Fang the Black Cat had taken up what he reckoned was a strategic position re possibly nabbing a bird from the feeding station...

To the dentist once again for, hopefully, the final work on the filling which has been plaguing me since, I think, January...

Of course just opposite the dentist is the Lothian Cat Rescue shop - these two for just 50 new pence each...

...and this added randomly from JB's ex-collection re his decision to stream - now down to just over 40 CDs in that pile of his and brother-in-law Keith's discs...

Other than that, "Marvels Agents of Shield" enjoyed while Anne was at Zumba..

Highlight of the Day : Tooth fixed - hopefully...

Singing old new songs...

Playlist

Various - Love - 120 Original Hits

Alphaville - Forever Young

Various Composers - The Pity Of War - Songs & Poems Of Wartime Suffering

Tom Waits - Blood Money

Ahmad Jamal - Happy Moods

Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak

Ghost Quartet - Ghost Quartet

Various - Jazz Plays Motown

Devo - Something For Everybody

Torke - Book Of Proverbs

Szymanowski - Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; Violin Concerto No 2 "Song Of The Night"

Various - Quarterly Social

Torgeir Waldemar - No Offending Borders

A welcome visitor first thing - always great to have a wee cat in the house...

...even...

...if it's not for long...

Bye Tiger...

Off out to gambol with his brother, Fang the Black Cat...

In the evening, a prospective musicking session with Keith fell through so, instead, played some songs on my own - including the only four I've written (one with niece Kitty when she was just 8) since my last song-based album Starlightnight in 2012...

Late on, "Holby" ended the day nicely...

Highlight of the Day : Singing old new songs...

Painless, pointless...

Playlist

Various - I am the DJ Pt 342

Rheostatics - Horseshoe Tavern , Toronto, 2016-12-10

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You

Kiss - Alive IV

Sade - The Best Of Sade

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Zuma

Torke - Rapture, An American Abroad, Jasper

Dentist first thing - I'm never away from there - back again on Wednesday re recent filling gone wrong, although painless...

In the evening.very late home but Anne out at Zumba - not enough time before "University Challenge" (Monkman v Seagull) to watch any of my nonsense science fiction programmes which are piling up on the Tivo...

"Broadchurch" is slow but finally staring to get somewhere...

For no other reason than no pics taken outside, here is a view of the new song...

..and the pile of CDs growing as they leave the Living Room shelf...

...and just the collection in general...

..and today's random selection - the question has to be asked - "why?"...

Indeed...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day :  Struggling...let's go for new music...

Small birds and old pictures...

Playlist

Various - I am the DJ Pt 342

Nyman - The Michael Nyman Anthology

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Underground Like Doug McClure
Lou Reed - Rock'n'Roll Heart

Up at 6:24, which, in old money, was 5:24...

Looked like it was going to be another good day, weather-wise...

Some preparation of playlists, some singing of songs and some breakfasting at home...

Out to my mum's for Mothers' Day lunch...

Strange that someone who can take 45 mins to eat a chicken roll can scoff a piece of Belgian chocolate cake in zero time whatsoever...

Good times...

Back home for more musicking and then, a walk to Jane and Bobby's...

..for Mothers' day for Jane and Mary...

Bob cooked steaks for all...

...served with all the trimmings...

...and the kids had made a roulade...

Kitty did the honours...

...but was disappointed to removed from cutting duties after having made a "hash" of it...

Outside, wild life was noted...

...and identified...

Olly displayed all the economics knowledge of Scottish separatists...

Oh dear...

Mary contemplated how it was that even though the UK's debt was a bigger number than Scotland's, as percentage of GDP it was under 4% while Scotland's is over 9% - far too high to be a member of the EU and, in fact the highest of any country in Europe - were it to become a country in its own right...

Oh dear...

This is how the SNP and their apologists pull the wool over the eyes of around a third of the electorate in Scotchland...

If only they could understand it the way the EP does...

Meanwhile, out in the garden, Kitty was showing off her athleticism...

Then, a big box of old photos was delved into...

...and the identity of a mystery figure in the garden years ago was debated over...

Cheers..

Turns out, it was an almost unrecognisable Exec Producer...

A very good afternoon/evening...

On the way home, we were befriended by Daisy the Dog on the bus...

This randomly joined the collection...

And the weekend was rounded off by the excellent first episode of the latest in "Line of Duty"...

Top notch...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Family and Line of Duty....