Eschewing the root canal treatment...

Playlist

Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge

Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia

Robert Fripp - Let The Power Fall

Various - A History of the Single - The 2010s

Roxy Music - Street Life - Greatest Hits

Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits

Glass - Solo Piano

The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones

Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock

Yes - Classic Yes

Uriah Heep - Live At Shepperton '74

Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

Toto - Dune OST

Chris Rea - Shamrock Diaries

J S Bach -  Goldberg Variations (Gould 1955)

James Brown - Live & Rare

Various Composers - The Original Sound of L'Oiseau-Lyre Volume 2

Tangerine Dream - The Virgin Years: 1974-1978

Various - Wow! That Was The 70's

Saga - The Security Of Illusion

David Bowie - The Complete Singles Collection 1964-2017

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (40th Anniv)

John Wetton - Battle Lines

Various - Pure... Rock

Yes - Time And A Word

Fauré - Complete Music For Piano

Various - The Wire Tapper 25

Black Widow - Sacrifice

Art Garfunkel - Art Garfunkel Album

The Doors - Absolutely Live

Various - Now That's 1970-06 - 1970-12

Mendelssohn - Lieder Ohne Worte

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - One Size Fits All

Hawkwind - Parallel Universe

Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill

Kamasi Washington - The Epic
Katie & Marielle Labeque - Piano Fantasy : Music for Two Pianos
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vol 27
Sparks - What the Hell Is It This Time? [Single]
Ethan Iverson - Construction Zone

Awake at 4am in agony with horrendous toothache - painkillers taken then snoozing, up at 7 and out and down the road for a bus around 7:30...

By 8:40 I was at the dentist...

Around an hour later, this...

The offending tooth removed in three parts, including a gold crown...

Removed by these...

I now have matching spaces...

As to how this might affect me, we'll have to see...

A bus home, whilst upon which I received a text from TalkTalk advising their engineer had been mucking about with our internet and I was to text back either "fixed" or "not fixed"...

Upon arriving home, almost inevitably, the text was sent "not fixed" - another hour long telephone call, by which time the anaesthetic had worn off and I was once again in agony...

At the third/fourth attempt, it seemed we'd finally got to the bottom of the problem and it appeared matters were resolved, however, I advised I would monitor for a further 48 hours just in case...

(Update : Matters remain unresolved!)

A visit to my mum in hospital called off due to pain and tiredness and so, a phone call instead - she has had a few other visitors over the last couple of days and so was reasonably happy...

I have not watched any telly now for two days - since all my series are finished...

Rest undertaken before recording the next podcast...

Just after 8pm, I set off to drive to Glasgow Airport to pick up the ladies - succeeding in staying awake on the drives there and back, despite the rather large painkiller intake and lack of sleep...

It took an hour from landing for them to appear at pick up, then, due to night time roadworks, the convoluted drive home took 90 rather than 60 minutes...

And so, home around 1am - a very long day...

Tiger had popped by to say welcome back to Anne...

Booty...

Good to have the EP back...

And June is away...

Highlight of the Day : Tooth out, EP home...

Partying down, internet up...

Playlist

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

The Who - Tommy OST

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna

Various - This Is...The Front Line

Automatic Man - Automatic Man

Eddie Jobson - Zinc / The Green Album

Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta

Ollie Howell - Self-Identity

Roll The Dice - Until Silence

David Wehr - American 20th Century Piano Music

Alban Berg Quartett - 20th Century Masterpieces

Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 1-52

David Bowie - Christiane F : Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo

Roxy Music - Country Life

The Cure - Faith

Well...

This morning, after resetting the router once again, this...

It was up all day...

Late afternoon, into town for a wee party to celebrate chum Wheelers' 40th birthday...

An excellent night...

Your correspondent was home by 11 not too the worse for wear...

He took to his bed with a slight pain in a tooth...

Highlight of the Day : Partying down, internet up...

Internet junkie ahoy....

Playlist

Adrian Belew - Mr. Music Head

Alaska + Dinarama - Fan Fatal

Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic

Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food

Television - Adventure

Brian Eno - Music For Films

Trevor Rabin - Trevor Rabin

Styx - Styx

Poets Of The Fall - Clearview

The Flaming Ember - Roots Of Hip Hop (Mojo Presents...)

Katy Perry - Prism

Kodály - Orchestral Works

Roger Waters - Smell the Roses [Single]

The Clash - London Calling

Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion

The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2017 Vols 26 & 27

This...

An hour long telephone call to TalkTalk and some mucking about by them at their end...

Thereafter, a 15 minute wait then switch the router off and on again...

Guess what...

Hmmm...

Out and into town for a stupidly arranged pointless meeting...

My mood is so affected by loss of access to the internet...

I am, it seems, an internet junkie...

And cold turkey is unpleasant...

Post meet, a drive out to the hospital for a visit with my old mum...

She's always on at me for being so fat...

She's just worried that, like sister Pam, I will die before her...

Oh well...

She's been told another week of intravenous antibiotics is required, with oral antibiotics post that...

She's bored out her brains in that hospital...

To Sainsbury on the way home, more tortellini, noting that their's is twice the price than Tesco, albeit with slightly more in the pack...

Home and another over an hour long call with TalkTalk...

Further mucking about at their end...

Still no access and the promise of a call back from a "manager" by 5pm...

Guess what...

Meanwhile a "specialist" will be looking at matters and it's hoped the situation will be resolved within three days...

Finished off the "X-Files" - it left us with a bit of a cliffhanger and, it seems, there will be a further 10 episodes in 2018...

I am not entirely holding my breath...

In the evening, took a philosophical view re lack of internet and recorded this week's podcast, not knowing if I'd be able to upload...

To bed around midnight...

Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

A visit from a mercenary monkey...

Playlist

Eddie Jobson - Zinc / The Green Album

Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta

Three Dog Night - Naturally

Nazareth - Nazareth's Greatest Hits

Mike Oldfield - Return To Ommadawn

Orion Tango - The Apple of No

Tomat - 01-06 June

Konono N°1 - Congotronics

The Beatles - A Hard Days Night

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Orka - Leipzig

Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night

Gary Glitter - Glitter

Faust - Faust IV

Various - A History of the Single - The 2010s

The Beatles - Revolver

Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Ali Farka Touré - Radio Mali

Ellie Goulding - Delirium

Niagara - Don't Take It Personally

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rubinmusik 1977-2017

Bjørn Riis - Forever Comes to an End

Orion Tango - Orion Tango

Liars - Mess

Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn

Rheostatics - Rheostatics: Brave New Waves Session

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

Roy Harper - In Between Every Line

Ian Gillan Band - Clear Air Turbulence

Yes - Union

The Exec Producer advised, first thing, that she and Lynn were on a boat to Positano...

Nice...

Meanwhile, having not gone to bed till 3:30 am, I was up rather late...

The internet was working fine and dandy...

And the tidying had gone well...

There was a visit from a wee chum too - although it was, basically, in the window, a couple of treats scoffed and then, back out the window...

Mercenary monkey...

Went through the rock & pop CDs with a view to putting more into the shop on Amazon - could only find around 100...

A fruitless trip to Ikea, gazing at "storage" and coming to realise I'd just be spending cash on surrounding stuff that's already there...

Lunch in their canteen - the aroma always reminds me of Butlins in the early 60's...

Tesco on the way home, for some Irish bread and tortellini - no more fish - the house still bore a rather less pleasant aroma than that at Ikea...

Started watching the "comeback" series of "The X Files" - very tongue in cheek...

Depressing too to see how people have aged...

Comes to us all...

But, when you see people everyday, you don't notice...

Late on, the internet went down and proved impossible to get back up...

Fucksake...

Started to compile the week after next's podcast...

Bed around 1am...

Highlight of the Day :  A visit from a mercenary monkey...

Staying up stupidly late...

Playlist

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Emperor

Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe

Chicago - Toronto Rock'n'Roll Festival 1969

Ellie Goulding - Delirium

The Beatles - A Hard Days Night

Niagara - Don't Take It Personally

The Beatles - Revolver

Ali Farka Touré - Radio Mali

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Faust - Faust IV

Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night

Tomat - 01-06 June

Liars - Mess

Madoromi - Live Vol 4

Barclay James Harvest - Barclay James Harvest

Shostakovich - Shostakovich: Symphonies 5 & 9

Baccara - Yes Sir I Can Boogie

Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds - Anita O'Day & The Three Sounds

Vance Joy - Riptide [Single]

Human - Being Human

Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie

Curran - Inner Cities

Jackie McLean - Swing, Swang, Swingin'

King Crimson - Thrak (2015 Stereo Mix)

Laura Pausini - Live In Paris 05

Bob Holroyd - Ten Years Of Phonica

Gubaidulina - Seven Words, Silenzio, In Croce

Various Composers - 20 Jahre Edition Zeitgenoessische Musik

AC/DC - Greatest Hits

Alice Cooper - Old School

Alice Cooper - Theatre of Death

Alice Cooper - Pretties For You

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death

Alice Cooper - Killer

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love

Alice Cooper - Welcome To My Nightmare

Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes To Hell

Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey

Alice Cooper - From the Inside

Alice Cooper - Flush The Fashion

Alice Cooper - Special Forces

Alice Cooper - Zipper Catches Skin

Alice Cooper - Da Da

Alice Cooper - Constrictor

Alice Cooper - Raise Your Fist And Yell

Alice Cooper - Trash

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

Alice Cooper - The Last Temptation

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet

Alice Cooper - Dragontown

Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper

Alice Cooper - Dirty Diamonds

Alice Cooper - Along Came A Spider

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Alice Cooper - Paranormal

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

The Who - Tommy OST

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna

Various - This Is...The Front Line
Automatic Man - Automatic Man
Eddie Jobson - Zinc/The Green Album
Moebius & Plank - Rastakraut Pasta

Up early and, out back, Tiger the Cat was stalking some seagulls, who were feasting on next door's garage roof re some kindly supplied by neighbour Pietro bread..

All the other gulls had fled, leaving just these two brave souls - in the end though, it was a stand off and the bread was partaken of in relative peace...

Meanwhile, indoors, some tidying was undertaken...

End result not shown as not yet available...

And, in Sorrento...

The postie brought this - originally ordered in April to arrive on 4 May...

In the meantime, I've been enjoying the free download...

For much of the afternoon and early evening, this...

Advice has been sought and received...

In the early evening, a listen to my current fave track from each of Alice Cooper's 28 albums 1969-2017, the first seven by the original group...

Dinner was cooked - no fish today...

...and enjoyed with a cheeky wee glass or two of 14.5% red wine...

Meanwhile, Tivo wise, both "Agents of Shield" and "Supernatural"'s latest series were finished off...

Disappointed to note the end of Crowley in the latter...

Oh well...

The final scenes were watched a around 1:15 am...

Then, some listening and surfing until a rather stupid 3:30 am bed hitting...

Highlight of the Day :  The Coop blasting...

Mitigating mackerel is not easy...

Playlist

Konono N°1 - Congotronics

Ali Farka Touré - Radio Mali

Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night

Tomat - 01-06 June

Niagara - Don't Take It Personally

Orka - Leipzig

Liars - Mess

Up reasonably early...

Weather looked good...

So I decided to stay in and sort out my CDs, soundtracked in the main by yesterday's purchases...

First, I removed two sections of jazz...

...to the window sill...

Then made my around the room, integrating around a year and half''s worth of acquisitions worth of discs into the rock & pop A-Z...

As I made my way around...

...the number of empty sections decreased...

  ...until...

...after just over two hours...

...the task was complete...

...only for me to then discover I'd missed around a dozen or so discs from the very start of the alphabet...

Hmmm...

Next time...

Out to the hospital...

And a walk from a free parking spot...

Mum was disappointed with her efforts for her walk...

...and so took a second shot at matters...

Ice cream was provided by her favourite son...

OK, only son...

Back to the car...

..and home via Sainsbury, where tea provisions were secured - mackerel fillets and potato cakes, which I cooked with onions...

Very tasty but, subsequently, the house stank of fish...

Back upstairs to integrate the jazz acquisitions from the last 18 months...

...which took less time, there being fewer CDs of that ilk...

More episodes of "Supernatural" enjoyed, as was a fleeting visit from Tiger the Cat - I'd opened the windows and doors to try and mitigate the mackerel...

And then, the film "Looper"...

I do like a bit of time travel hokem...

As the sun went down...

...I went around the house closing all the windows and doors, having failed miserably in my attempt to mitigate the mackerel...

As I entered the bedroom, who should I find but a cheeky wee Fang the Black Cat...

I allowed him to stay till midnight, before putting him out the window...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Long overdue CD integration...