Sunday, December 16, 2018

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...

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