Not bashing my head on a car or a wall...

Playlist

Bach, J S - Italy in Bach

Hawkwind - Hall Of The Mountain Grill

Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music

Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness

Ewelina Flinta - Przeznaczenie

Pet Shop Boys - Elysium

David Bowie - Best Of Bowie

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump

Various Composers - The Art Of The Oboe - Famous Oboe Concertos

Webern - Complete Works

Soft Machine - The Soft Machine Volume One

Allan Holdsworth - Against The Clock The Best Of Allan Holdsworth

King Crimson - USA

Karajan - Orchestral Spectaculars 1949-1960

Anneke Van Giersbergen - Drive

Various - Now 73

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Remaster)

Schumann - Complete Concertos

Grand Funk Railroad - Collectors Series

Nazareth - Greatest Hits

Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language School

Yes - Symphonic Live

U2 - The Joshua Tree

Various - Milano Jukebox 1998

Hank Mobley - The Turnaround

First Aid Kit - Ruins

Rameau, Couperin - Harpsichord Works

The Eternalist - Nothing is Going Back to How it Was Before

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

Bartók - Solo Piano Works

Alice Cooper - Hey Stoopid

Die Ärzte - Die Ärzte

Deaf School - 2nd Honeymoon

Fehlfarben - Glut Und Asche

Chic - C'est Chic

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

J S Bach - Goldberg Variations (Gould 1955)

Steve Howe - Turbulence

Various - Da, Da, Da, Das War Die... Neue Deutsche Welle

Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast

Chicago - Chicago 4 : At Carnegie Hall

The Doors - Absolutely Live

Virelai - Sad Steps

The Velvet Underground - Live At Max's Kansas City

Die Ärzte - Nach Uns die Sintflut

Vivaldi - Mandolin & Chamber Concertos

Walter Carlos - Switched-On Bach

Willie Hutch - Foxy Brown

Capital Models - 2018-12-16

Up just before 6...

The view from the office this morning...

Downstairs and admiring the Xmas Decs...

...also reflected in the window re this squirrel capture...

Out for breakfast around 10, to Patisserie Florentin...

Lovely flat whites and a bacon roll for me, croissant for Annie...

Some wandering around the shops resulted in a £2 purchase of a Willie Hutch funky soundtrack from Shelter...

Tasty...

The soundtrack soundtracked my drive to Roslin...

...for today's quartet rehearsal, sans sore back Paul...

A run through the proposed set for Keith's belated birthday bash in February...

Then...

...a surprise rendition of "Happy Birthday" and a lovely home made cake - Chloe did the jam apparently...

A second run through - sounding pretty good all told - enough room too to possibly add one more song, taking us up to 11...

An accident, as I loaded the car post musicking...

I tripped over the pavement whilst trying to avoid a speeding car and fell into Johnny's garden - face first flat out on the ground - quite lucky really - a foot either way and I'd have careered head first either into his car or his garden wall...

Oh how the boys laughed - but it was actually pretty sore...

A drive over to Jane and Bob's for tea with them, Kitty and Mary - and Rafa the Dog...

Kitty and I were on Chinese collection duty - Kitty got dressed up for the occasion...

This was the temperature in the takeaway...

Back home for a slap up feed...

...and some panoramic portraiture...

Later on, Bob sent me these nice pics of Olly and Kitty on the night of Olly's Xmas Ball a couple of days ago - tartan trews to the fore...

By the time I went to bed, I was in agony re the great fall of 2018...

Today's artwork, "Xmas Lights"...

Highlight of the Day : Not bashing my head on a car or a wall...