A return to playing...

Playlist

Monteverdi - Madrigals Book 3

Various - Clubber's Guide To...Trance

Ann Wilson - Immortal

Angulo - Cancion de Cuna

Suk - Works For String Quartet

The xx - I See You

Alice Cooper - Mar y Sol 1972

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival

Fitkin - Kaplan

Various - Jared Sacks 25 Years Of Recordings

Bad Company - Bad Company Live 1977 1979

Journey - Infinity

Jacques Brel - Les 100 Plus Belles Chansons

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Re-ac-tor

Emerson Lake & Palmer - On The BBC Fanfare 1970-1997 Remastered

Alpha Male Tea Party - Health

k.d. lang & The Siss Boom Bang - Sing it Loud

David Bowie - Changesbowie

Schumann - Schumann: Symphonies

Miles Davis - Miles Davis & Gil Evans: Alternate And Rehearsal Takes

Ronnie Montrose - Open Fire

Various - The Wire Tapper 17

Rammstein - Mutter

Steep Canyon Rangers - Nobody Knows You

Various - The Best Air Guitar Album In The World Ever

Ghost - In Stormy Nights

Mozart - The String Quintets

Jean-Michel Jarre - Aero

A Perfect Circle - Eat the Elephant

Various - A Decade Of Pop - The 70s

Various - Top 200 Artists (August 2010)

Genesis - The Best...Genesis

Can - Tago Mago

Various - Mr. Holland's Opus

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series Vol 12: The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966

John Barry - Beat For Beatniks & Beat Girls

Brahms - Clarinet Trios

Vivaldi - Il Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione, Op VIII

Various - Respect : The Soundtrack to the Soul Generation

Jason Aldean - Rearview Town

Steve Howe & Billy Currie - Transportation

Various - Honey Honey

Madredeus - Capricho Sentimental

Anthony Phillips - Soiree (Private Parts & Pieces X)

As usual, up early - finalising the unlistened to music project - I'd put too much on the phone and had to take some off...

Anyway, out into the mist for breakfast provisions...

Home for breakfast with Anne and a visit from Fang the Black Cat...

At 11, took Anne to her mum's for today's travesty of justice as Scotland's newest club beat the Jam Tarts with an offside goal and multiple unpunished offences...

On the way back, popped into the Cancer Research shop and obtained these for just five of your English pounds

Nice haul...

Some ripping of these then, at 1, bassist (drummer) Keith arrived for the trip out to Roslin...

A gig in February is in the offing and we were working on new material which, most probably, will not be ready by then...

First time with the quintet set up in the dining room...

Here, without me and Stu...

...as we prepped in the living room...

Some pics by Stu...

 

The afternoon was one of ups, downs and ups - we rounded things off with a few of the songs we know pretty well, which buoyed the situation...

Chloe was in attendance...

...as was Moira...

Over to Anne's mum's for tea...

Kitty despaired at the chat of reality TV shows...

...but was fine at home time...

..and Olly adopted a stance whilst getting his jacket on...

Home and more ripping while Anne watched "Strictly"...

Then, this week's "Dr Who" - pretty good, although fans seemed dismayed at what could have been an iconic scene which, it seems, was ruined by the writer's decision to include a frog...

Best so far of a bad bunch though...

One to go then New Year...

Today's artwork, "Three of Five"...

Highlight of the Day : Playing with the boys...