Life can be good...

Playlist
Various - Written In A Song
Various Composers - Dansereyre 1551
Various - 100 Hits Summer Reggae
Albert King - King Of The Blues Guitar
Various - No Title: Jazz & Poetry On The Occasion Of The Clyfford Still Museum
David Guetta - Listen
Jeroen Van Veen - Minimal Piano Collection Vols I-IX
Various - The Front Line : Best Of
Simon Dupree & The Big Sound - Part Of My Past
Various - Walk On The Wild Side: The Jazz Side Of Mod
Green Day - Insomniac

Various - Top 20 No 1 Singles

Girls Aloud - Ten (Deluxe)

Paul McCartney & Wings - Paul McCartney & Wings Singles 1972-1977

Belinda Carlisle - Live Your Life Be Free

Muse - The 2nd Law

King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black [4oth Anniversary]

Haydn - String Quartets (Complete)

Various Composers - 20th Century Classics

Pet Shop Boys - Elysium

Francis Dunnery - Tall Blonde Helicopter

James & Brian Eno - Wah Wah

Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Pearl

Various - 70s Groove

Various - The Annual 2002 (Ministry of Sound)

Sparks - Kimono My House

Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool

Neil Young - Harvest

Bach, J S - Cantates pour alto

Laura Pausini - Escucha

Enchant - A Dream Imagined

Belinda Carlisle - Real

The Velvet Underground - 1969

Françoise Hardy - Messages Personnels (Box Set)

DJ Hell - Zukunftsmusik

David Guetta - 7

Pihtipudas Kvintetti - Piano Quintets: Bloch. Beach. Kuula

Najwa - Donde Rugen Los Volcanes

Family 5 - Resistance

Various - Super 70's Rock

Hilary Hahn - In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores

Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head

The Monkees - The Monkees

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

Nazareth - Nazareth's Greatest Hits

Mott The Hoople - The Columbia Singles 1972-1974

Hindemith - Cello & Piano Works Vol.2

Rodrigo - Five Orchestral Pieces

Up early with the cats...

Into town and another small person, chum Ali's son, Fraser, pictured with the Billion Dollar Baby's head...

A walk to Stockbridge at lunchtime and a trawl around the shops...

These, spotted on the way down, are possibly a little previous...

Good skies...

...but no purchases made...

Good skies too, as I alighted early at the terminus...

Home to a couple of calm cats...

...and some arrivals...

This on a small label from Kassel, very good...

This is excellent...

This too, is top notch...

 A very good haul indeed for just a few quid...

The cats shared my joy...

Meanwhile, Anne was cooking something from the cookbook of tasty treats provided to her on Xmas Day...

And, lo, it was extremely tasty - possibly her best curry ever...

Yum...

Early evening spent relaxing in the living room...

...listening to the new arrivals...

...with two cats in one small hammock...

We thrashed both teams on "University Challenge" - scoring over 250 points  - although, it has to be said, on these "celebrity" episodes, the questions are a little easier...

Later on, with Anne doing some further catching up on telly, I recompiled this week's podcast, the last of 2018...

Scrapped my idea of "2018 Discoveries" and, instead, decided it would be based on my favourite CD and favourite download from each month of 2018, giving me 24 tracks...

Off to bed, listening...

Today's artwork, "Small Boy with Baby's Head"...

Highlight of the Day : Excellent curry and excellent new music...