Friday, November 30, 2018

Getting inside the zero...

Playlist
Various - Billboard Top 100 1970
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
T Rex - Electric Warrior (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Various - Top Of The Pops 1971
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Group Singles 1970-1974
David Bowie - Five Years
Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002
The Osmonds - The Very Best Of The Osmonds
Slade - Slayed?
The Jackson 5 - The Motown Years
T Rex - The T Rex Wax Co. Singles - A's And B's, 1972-77
David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed
Slade - Greatest Hits
Various - Billboard Top 100 1973
Status Quo - Status Quo - Gold
Various - Sugar Sugar: The Birth Of Bubblegum Pop
Roxy Music - The Platinum Collection
Wizzard - Wizzard Brew
Various - The Best Xmas EP in the World...Ever!
Various - Jackie The Album
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Genesis - Platinum Collection
Sparks - Kimono My House
David Essex - The Best Of David Essex
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Various - Super 70's Rock
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Best Years Of Our Lives
David Bowie - Young Americans
Hot Chocolate - 14 Greatest Hits
Paul Simon - Greatest Hits: Shining Like A National Guitar
David Bowie - Station To Station
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Various - ackie The Album Vol 2
Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Various - From The Velvets To The Voidoids
Abba - The Singles : The First Ten Years
Various - Downtown Funk
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Various - Lust For Life
Various - Haynes Ultimate Guide To Classic Rock
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Clash - The Essential Clash
David Bowie - Changesbowie
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
The Jacksons - Destiny
The Jam - Snap!
Blondie - Greatest Hits
Various - A Hard Nights Day - A History Of Stiff Records
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Box Set Series
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
The Skids - Scared To Dance
Various - Billboard Top 100 1979
David Bowie - Lodger
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Various - Wow! That Was The 70's
Queen - he Game
Pink Floyd - A Collection Of Great Dance Songs
The Clash - London Calling
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
David Bowie - Best Of Bowie
Dewa Budjana - Zentuary
Sardonyx - Sons of the Kingdom
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty
Tori Amos - To Venus And Back
John Foxx - The Omnidelic Exotour (The Golden Section Tour)
Katatonia - The Fall of Hearts
United Studio Effects - Sound Effects, Vol. 1
Airto - Fingers
Various - The Wire Tapper 35
Genesis - Foxtrot (1994 Definitive Edition Remaster)
Lucius - Nudes
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Praetorius - Praetorius: Magnificat

First thing, taking the car around the coast to Arnold Clark for another repair to the handbrake and annoyingly inconclusive  nonsense re a noise which has only appeared since the last time they "fixed" it...

Not to worry...

November away...


Today, a surprise birthday do for chum Spike - having left him yesterday thinking it was all over...



Chums gathered...


...and the trap was sprung...


...much to everyone's delight...


As the afternoon progressed, so did the "state" of the attendees - your correspondent, on "duty" re his mum and a possible call out to Loanhead, was on the sparkling mineral water...


Spike, however, was not...


The Exec Producer popped in and enjoyed a small large glass of wine, giving Spike her best wishes before heading out with chums Teresa and Gillian...


Spike and lovely wife Debbie were on top form...


Daughter Cassie captured the crowning moment on her phone...


While Spike got inside the zero...


I left around 5:30 to head home - cooked some tea, watched a "Supernatural", drove out to my mum's for a couple of hours to keep her company and order her about regarding shopping and exercising, then drove home again for another two episodes of "Supernatural" before Anne arrived home...

All in all, a good day, notwithstanding zero alcoholic intake and my mum's situation...

And the music was appreciated - which was good...

Today's artwork, "Sixty"...


Highlight of the Day : Surprise!

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Working but not really working...

Playlist
Santana - The Ultimate Collection
Various - Billboard Top 100 1979
Barry White - All-Time Greatest Hits
Various - Motown Chartbusters Vol 1
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Bryan Ferry - The Bride Stripped Bare
Rod Stewart - The Best Of Rod Stewart
Various - The Best Seventies Album In the World ...Ever! II
Gary Glitter - Glitter
Various - Jackie The Album
The Jam - Snap!
Thin Lizzy - Black Rose
Various - Billboard Top 100 1975
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vols 1-52
Jimi Tenor - Organism
Various - Sunday Times Music Collection Vol 4
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, L'Estro Armonico, Etc
Various Composers - The Classical Collection
Emerson Lake & Palmer - In the Hot Seat Fanfare 1970-1997 Remastered
Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 1 - Funky jazz classics & original breaks from the tough side
Moebius & Plank - Material
King Crimson - 2016 Tour
Dread Zeppelin - Dejah-Voodoo
Sorabji - Piano Works
Wildnite - Wildnite
Kyle Eastwood - Candid Kyle
Various - Funk Soul Classics (Ministry of Sound)
Various - Atlantic R&B: 1947-1974 Vol 4 : 1957-1960
Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt
Roger Waters - Copenhagen, 2018-08-10
The Wood Brothers - One Drop of Truth
Brian Eno - 77 Million Paintings
k.d. lang & The Siss Boom Bang - Sing it Loud
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Jimmy Osmond - The Very Best Of The Osmonds
T. Rex - 20th Century Superstar
The Monkees - The Works
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities
Lou Donaldson - Night Creeper
Monteverdi - Madrigals Book 3

Two purchases at lunchtime - this...


...going on Amazon 2nd hand for around £25!?

And this - not doing so...


Today, chum Spike hit 60, some five months ahead of your correspondent...


Celebrations took place...


Speeches were spoken and cakes were eaten...


Home in the dark...



And work on the playlist for tomorrow's surprise party - having whittled 1,200 70's singles down to "just" 600, I threw the choices open to my colleagues, a goodly number of whom made some judicious choices......

Some telly too...

Today's artwork, "Looking Through the Windows"...


Highlight of the Day : Working on music, kind of...

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Everything in the right order...

Playlist
John Lennon - Lennon
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, L'Estro Armonico, Etc
Phish - 2018/08/03 Alpharetta, GA
Various - Billboard Top 100 1977
Status Quo - Gold
Chic - Nile Rodgers presents The Chic Organization - Up All Night
Jo Jo Gunne - Jo Jo Gunne
Blondie - Greatest Hits
David Bowie - Station To Station
Various - Super 70's Reggae
Three Dog Night - Naturally
Abba - The Singles : The First Ten Years
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
Free - Heartbreaker
Various - Wow! That Was The 70's
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Group Singles 1970-1974
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Various - This Is...The Front Line
Bay City Rollers - Absolute Rollers
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Various - Lust For Life
10cc - The Original Soundtrack
And So I Watch You From Afar - The Endless Shimmering
Ruehr - Elena Ruehr: Six String Quartets
Roy Wood - Harvest Showdown
Various - Jackie The Album
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours [Expanded]
Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter
David Essex - The Best Of David Essex
Boston - Boston
Hot Chocolate - 14 Greatest Hits
The Move - Message from the Country
T Rex - Electric Warrior (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Various - Jackie The Album Vol 2
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
David Bowie - Pin Ups
The Jackson 5 - The Motown Years
The Jacksons - Destiny
10cc - The Very Best Of 10cc
The Police - The Very Best Of Sting & The Police
Sparks - Indiscreet
Steely Dan - Showbiz Kids
Various - 101 Punk & New Wave Anthems
The Physics House Band - Horizons - Rapture
Al Di Meola - Opus
Various - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2018 Vol 48

Today's listening, was the short long list of 70's singles for Friday...

Plus some previously unheard tracks...

In the evening, tracks for the podcast chosen from those listened to over the last seven days...

Podcast duly recorded...


Today's artwork, "Everything in the Right Order"...


Highlight of the Day : Podcasting...

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

New discoveries...

Playlist
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, L'Estro Armonico, Etc
Mozart - Le Nozze Di Figaro
Various - The Best of Blaxploitation - Cinematic Soul and Bad Ass Funk Classics
Gregory Isaacs - Masterclass
Jon Anderson - Surrender [Single]
Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 10 Africa Funk
Mark Wingfield - Tales From the Dreaming City
Phish - 2018/08/03 Alpharetta, GA
Various - Chillout Moods
Wishbone Ash - Blowin' Free: An Introduction To Wishbone Ash
Various - Voyager Golden Record
Sandy Nelson - Manhattan Spiritual 
The Eternalist - Total Field of Events
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Kit Downes - Obsidian
Gil Scott-Heron - Glory: The Gil Scott-Heron Collection
Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Drums
Various - Shaken And Stirred: The David Arnold James Bond Project
Vivaldi - Vivaldi: 6 Cello Sonatas
Miles Okazaki - Work
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (Remastered)
Bryars - Jesus' Blood has Never Failed Me Yet
Kaito - Special Love
Gil Scott-Heron - A New Black Poet : Small Talk At 125th And Lennox
Weill - Symphonies #1 & 2, Lady In The Dark Symphonic Nocturne
Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972
Front 242 - Live Code 5413356424225
Dohnányi - Winterreigen, 6 Piano Pieces, 3 Singular Pieces
Various - The Front Line : Best Of
Gregory Isaacs - Absent
Bliss - They Made History
Tom Paxton - #6
Donny McCaslin - Beyond Now
Rikard Sjöblom - Cyklonmannen
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte
Various - Can You Dig It? - The '70s Soul Experience
Kevin Drumm - The March Flog
Alice Cooper - The Essential Alice Cooper - The Epic Years
Magazine - Where The Power Is
First Aid Kit - Ruins
Various - Top 200 Artists (August 2010)
Echotide - Into The Half Light
Pharoah Sanders - Save Our Children
Neil Young - Roxy: Tonight's The Night Live
Tatanka - Baikal
Enchant - A Dream Imagined
Various - 101 Power Ballads
Bach, C P E - Die Israeliten in der Wuste
Various - 101 Northern Soul Anthems
Transido - Puentes
Various - Vocal Trance 2018
Various - 101 Stax
Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
Various - 101 Drivetime
Luke Howard - Two & One
Rhye - Woman
Capital Models - 2018-02-04
Sanguine Hum - Now We Have Light
Dvořák - The Complete String Quartets — Stamitz Quartet
Various - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl
CB3 - Adventures
Various - The Romantic Age
deadmau5 - where's the drop?
Jenkins, K - Diamond Music
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Moby - 18
Avril Lavigne - Under My Skin
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Muse - The Resistance
Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel III

The listening to music I've not listened to before, continued today...

As did the choosing of possible music for a birthday celebration coming up on Friday...


On telly, "Holby City" once again provided entertainment...

That was about it, I think?

Today's artwork, "Singles"...


Highlight of the Day : New discoveries...

Monday, November 26, 2018

Pictures from home...

Playlist
Wobbler - Rites at Dawn
Various - The Spoken Word - British Writers
Red Planet with Bill Carrothers - Red Planet with Bill Carrothers
Lione-Conti - Lione-Conti
The Velvet Underground - Rock'n'Roll Diary 1967-1980
Various - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl
Various - Funk On Fire: The Mercury Anthology
Enchant - Break
Sia - This Is Acting (Deluxe Version)
Kylver - The Island
Matt Emery - Empire
Kaito - Until the End of Time
Various - 101 Drivetime
Kyle Eastwood - Candid Kyle
Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Ashton Gardner & Dyke
Tangerine Dream - Genesis of Precious Thoughts (Live in Budapest 2017)
Rush - A Farewell To Kings 40th Anniversary
Roy Ayers - Coffy (OST)
Jordsjø - Jordsjø
Curtis Mayfield - Short Eyes
Foreigner - Head Games
The Wood Brothers - One Drop of Truth
Nina Hagen - Sternenmaedchen
Long Distance Calling - Trips
Alice Cooper - The Essential Alice Cooper - The Epic Years
Various - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years
David Guetta - One Love
Earth, Wind & Fire - The Box Set Series
Sly and the Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin' On
Smetana - String Quartets #1 & 2
Glass - Lavinia Meijer Harp Philip Glass
OddsFiche - Can't Autograph a Snowball
Laura Veirs - The Lookout
Anon - Moon, Sun & All Things - Baroque Music From Latin America, Vol. 2
Various - Stax 50th Anniversary Celebration
Various - Top Of The Pops 1971
KC & The Sunshine Band - KC & The Sunshine Band
Chicago - Chicago
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Various - 101 Disco Anthems
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Wire - On Returning (1977-1979)
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Devo - Hot Potatoes: The Best Of Devo
Motörhead - Aces Up My Sleeve - The Collection
Elvis Presley - Elvis 75
Abba - The Singles : The First Ten Years
Various - Jackie The Album Vol 2
Procol Harum - The Best Of Procol Harum Halcyon Daze
Roy Wood - Through The Years: The Very Best Of Roy Wood
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die
Deep Purple - Singles A's & B's
Blondie - Greatest Hits
The Who - Then And Now (1964-2004)
Various - Time Machine - A Vertigo Retrospective
Ohio Players - Greatest Hits
CCS - A's B's And Rarities
Various - Funk Fever
Various - Jackie The Album
Suzi Quatro - Rough & Tough
Status Quo - Status Quo - Gold
Various - 101 Drivetime
Various - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl
Ohio Players - Funk On Fire: The Mercury Anthology
Various - Heat OST
Various - The Spoken Word - British Writers

Photos from home today...

This is Sid...


Thought to have been male when named...


But, actually, female and an inquisitive wee kitten...


Not quite confident enough to come into the house yet but, maybe one day...

This evening, we came second again at "University Challenge"...

Music today was mostly stuff I have had for a while but not yet got around to listening to...

So that was interesting...

Today's artwork, "Mischief"...


Highlight of the Day : Being Buoyed by pictures from home...

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Doomed...

Playlist
Various - 60s Jukebox - The Ultimate Collection
Count Basie - King Of Swing
Various - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl
Rush - A Farewell To Kings 40th Anniversary
Various - 101 Drivetime
Nancy Wilson - Hollywood, My Way
Al Green - The Hi Records Singles Collection
Max Richter - Memoryhouse
Parliament - Tear The Roof Off 1974-1980
Kaito - Less Time Until the End
King Crimson - 2018 Tour
Simple Minds - Walk Between Worlds
Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over [Single]
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet - Landfall
Leszek Możdżer - Komeda
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire (Deluxe Edition)
Various - Tamla Motown Gold
Miles Davis - Miles
Joe Bonamassa - Redemption
Various - 101 Stax
Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft - Reworx
King Tubby - Declaration Of Dub
Leighton - Piano Sonata Opus 64/Chamber Works
Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z - good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe)
Various - 101 Power Ballads
Derek And The Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan
Kaito - Hundred Million Light Years
Lalo Schifrin & Dizzy Gillespie - Talkin' Verve
Jlin - Autobiography
Ashton Gardner & Dyke - Ashton Gardner & Dyke
Kaito - Trust
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (Deluxe Edition)
Glass - Lavinia Meijer Harp Philip Glass
Capital Models - DR Covers Learning
Mark Wingfield - Tales From the Dreaming City
Various - Chillout Moods
Tarwater - Adrift
T. Rex - 20th Century Superstar
Jean-Claude Vannier - En public & Fait maison
Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator - Con-Struct
Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
Bryars - The Fifth Century
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound (Definitive Edition Remaster)
Genesis - From Genesis To Revelation (2008 Remastered)
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Françoise Hardy - Love Songs
k.d. lang - Drag
John Coltrane - Coltrane (1957)
Jackson Browne - The Very Best of Jackson Browne
Palais Schaumburg - Palais Schaumburg (Deluxe Edition)
David Bowie - Best Of Bowie
Snufmumriko - Drömboken
Cluster - Japan Live
Scott Walker - Scott
Thirty Seconds to Mars - AMERICA
Various - The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968
Herbie Hancock - Future 2 Future
Various - Pulp Fusion Vol. 4 - Fully Loaded
Françoise Hardy - Golden Hour Presents the Best of Françoise Hardy
Dillinger & The Upsetters - Rhythm Shower
Max Richter - Hostiles (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Gregson - Terminal
Enchant - Wounded
Sia - 1000 Forms Of Fear (Deluxe Version)
Gil Scott-Heron - A New Black Poet : Small Talk At 125th And Lennox
Enchant - Juggling 9 Or Dropping 10
W.E.T. - Earthrage
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Songs Of Freedom
Joe Bonamassa - British Blues Explosion Live
Alex Rudi Pell - Knights Call
Black Label Society - Grimmest Hits
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonatas
Various - Blue Note Nonstop 60 Trax
The Ohio Players - Pleasure
ISSA - Run With The Pack
Various - Can You Dig It? - The '70s Soul Experience
Falco - Falco 3 (European Edition)
Above & Beyond - Common Ground
Alice Coltrane - Huntington Ashram Monastery
Bryars - Gavin Bryars: A Portrait
Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars
Editors - Violence
Roedelius - Kollektion
Long Distance Calling - Boundless
Count Basie - The Greatest! Count Basie Plays, Joe Williams Sings Standards
Haken - L-1VE (Live in Amsterdam 2017)
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Lay It On Down
Tangerine Dream - The Electronic Magic Of Tangerine Dream : The Anthology
Sanguine Hum - What We Ask Is Where We Begin
Miles Davis - Miles
The Temperance Movement - A Deeper Cut
Genesis - Abacab (1994  Definitive Edition Remaster)
Yo La Tengo - There's a Riot Going On
Moby - Play

Up super early and there was work to be done, leaving the house around 6am, noting the fallen chimney piece, now the subject of an annoying but necessary outlay...

C'est la vie...


The moon was out...





Home for breakfast around 9:30, followed by a project -  a new box for the garden...






Today, listening has mostly been music acquired in 2018 but not yet listened to. I currently have 11,207 tracks in this category, from 1,034 albums - 42.5 days listening if I was doing so 24/7...

Worked out though, that, all told, across my hard drives, since starting to use iTunes (21/09/13), I have 131,619 tracks to which I've not yet listened (from 10,552 different LPs!)...

This collection of music would take 460 days to listen to, if doing so 24/7...

I am doomed... 

DOOMED!!

Anyway, this afternoon, post watching the previous Richard Herring/Greg Davies very funny indeed podcast on the YouTube via the TV (see yesterday's entry), off over to my mum's...

In good spirits and good chat, coffee and snowballs...

As we were about to leave, Sheila and Andrew arrived, followed by nephew Ali...

An extra hour and a half was spent in Loanhead...

The scene as we left...





Home via Hui Chinese and met at the back door by Fang the Black Cat, who, post some goodie drops, took up residence on the bed...


The best "Dr Who" of the series so far but still not that great...

More listening and writing this up...

At midnight, off Fang went...



Today's artwork, "Home Comforts"...


Highlight of the Day : Mum feeling a good deal better...

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Meeting the cats...

Playlist
Jackson Browne - The Very Best of Jackson Browne
Cher - Cher's Greatest Hits 1965-1992
The Beatles - 1 (2015 Remix)
The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
The Monkees - The Works
Procol Harum - The Best Of Procol Harum Halcyon Daze
The Rolling Stones - The London Years
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Various - Jackie The Album Vol 2
Elvis Presley - The Wonder Of You
T Rex - Electric Warrior (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
Alice Cooper - The Alice Cooper Group Singles 1970-1974
Wizzard - Wizzard Brew
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Best Years Of Our Lives
Abba - The Singles : The First Ten Years
David Bowie - Nothing Has Changed
a-ha - Hunting High And Low
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind [Single]
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven On Earth
Shakespear's Sister - Hormonally Yours
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Beatles - 1967-1970
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit in the Sky [Single]
Various - No 1's 1959 - 2018
Various - NOW That's What I Call 30 Years
Johan Verminnen - 60
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
Bryan Adams - Waking Up The Neighbours
Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time
Armand Van Helden - You Don't Know Me
Various - Anthems II: 1991-2009 (Ministry of Sound)
Madonna - Music
Various - Best Of The 80s
Little Mix - Shout Out to My Ex [Single]
LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
Various - A History of the Single - The 1990s
Eurythmics - Eurythmics Greatest Hits
Various - 1,001 Songs You Must Hear Vol 1
Adele - 25
Stereophonics - Language, Sex, Violence, Other?
Various - The Cruisin' Story 1959
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4 Way Street
The Tubes - Now
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - The Emperor
Syl Johnson - Soul Time
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Monteverdi - Monteverdi: Teatro D'amore
Spock's Beard - Snow
Sparks - Introducing Sparks
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Rush - All The World's A Stage
Leighton - Piano Sonata Opus 64/Chamber Works
Various - Move On Up

Up early and mucking about on the "number 1 singles" project while getting this up to date and uploading the podcast...


However, a call from sister Sheila around 8:30, mum complaining of not being well...

Over to Loanhead...

Just her usual morning shakes and a wee bit sweaty but mainly due to the fact that her house is like a jungle heat-wise - had to open the front door to let some heat out and amended the heating system back to normal...

Her hospital exit letter does say though that there's a chance of further infection as the stones in her bile duct have not yet been able to be fully addressed - the only doctor in Scotland who can carry out the procedure is off until the New Year - apparently having been run over by a car...

Anyway, all told, she was fine - problem is she knows she might get another infection and is the world's most pessimistic woman...

Her carer arrived and mum was fine once washed and dressed etc...

Read her meters - there is a subtle difference between these two pics...



...and deleted some stuff off her Tivo to free up space from 1% to 8% - but was not allowed to erase any of the 53 (FIFTY THREE) episodes of "Midsomer Murders" (another 10 or so sit outwith this folder!)...


Left her catching up on "Coronation Street" and was home around 11...

The rest of the day spent listening to music, finalising my choices for "20 Great No 1 Singles" (in fact I updated my "one number one single for each year I've been alive" playlist too) and watching TV, including a hilarious interview of Greg Davies by Richard Herring for his podcast "RHLSTP" - seen by pushing YouTube up onto the telly...


 I note the previous episode featuring Mr Davies is also there...

 

Give them a watch if you want a laugh...

In the evening, what's this?






It's Mia watching her wee "brother" Nico the Dubrovnik Kitten, running around...




Nico likes to fetch things that have been thrown - in a dog stylee...


Eventually he settled down..



We were round at Blair & Abbie's for a tasty lasagne dinner and to meet Nico and reacquaint ourselves with Mia...

We will have the the two cats at Crispycat Towers for a month over Xmas and New Year while B&A head to the Far East and Oz...

Looking forward to it... 


Home around 11...

Today's artwork, "Fast Black Cat"...


Highlight of the Day : Meeting the cats...