Starting projects in which there will be no interest can still be reasonably entertaining...

Playlist

David Bowie - Aladdin Sane

Mathilde Santing - Mathilde Santing

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

King Crimson - A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson

March gone...

Marching on...

To the store to procure rolls and milk...

Back home, post breakfast, Anne gardened and I musicked, playing 26 songs all told...

In the afternoon, to my mum's - the descendants of the starlings who nested above my boxroom continue to next above my boxroom...

Sister Sheila brought some cakes for Mothers' Day - while we both provided large boxes of chocolates...

Mum likes cakes...

She also likes chocolates...

Home and a new project started - to convert my old recordings from mini-disc to digital WAV files (having almost 20 years ago transformed them from cassette to mini disc)...

There is likely to be little interest in this, other than from me but, perhaps one day, my entire discography (258 releases since 1977 and counting) will be up on the Bandcamp...

Later on, the first in the new series of "Line of Duty" was "up to the usual standards" as we in the music business say...

Lights out on another weekend...

Highlight of the Day : Playing...

Good food, good musicking, good results...

Playlist
Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town
Vaughan Williams - Phantasy Quintet, String Quartets #1-2
Jackie McLean - Destination Out
Isaac Hayes - Live At The Sahara Tahoe
Various Artists - The Man Who Fell To Earth
Pleyel - String Quartets, Op. 2/1-3
Mozart - String Quartets and Quintets
David Bowie - Heroes
Status Quo - Picturesque Matchstickable Messages From The Status Quo
Alice Peacock - Alice Peacock
Various Artists - Super 70's Rock
Faust - The Faust Tapes
Suzanne Vega - Tales From The Realm Of The Queen Of Pentacles
Various Artists - Trojan Roots Reggae Box Set
Creek - Creek 2015
Allan Holdsworth - Against The Clock The Best Of Allan Holdsworth
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
George Benson - Jazz Masters Vol. 21
Vasks - Music Of Peteris Vasks
Félix Dyotte - Félix Dyotte
Iona Marshall - On The Rocks
Herbie Mann - First Light
First Aid Kit - The Big Black and The Blue
Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages
Scott Walker - Boy Child: 67-70
The Seekers - A Carnival Of Hits
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Sparks - Indiscreet
Simple Minds - Life In A Day
Rain Tree Crow - Rain Tree Crow
Maxwell Davies - A Celebration Of Scotland

Despite last night's shenanigan's up early...

A classical podcast uploaded - at one point in the coming days, I will have three podcasts in the classical top 100 on Mixcloud...

Given the listening stats, this is just a bit weird but who am I to argue...

People on the Twitter were commenting on my Trojan box sets collection so, a picture posted...

Out for breakfast with Anne to a new spot, The Haven, down by the river...

Very tasty scrambled egg/eggy bread - both with bacon - and good coffee too...

Back home and the Eclectic Selection podcast links recorded, the programme put together and released into the world...

Over to Anne's mum's...

...for the two ladies to head to Tyncastle to watch Hearts play dreadfully in the first half, go behind, yet pull it out of the bag in the second, with a much needed win over Aberdeen, 2-1...

Queens were unexpectedly winning by the same margin at Dundee Utd...

Meanwhile, I was taking a look around the shops in Corstorphine and acquired this little beauty for 50p...

Back home, rehearsing the covers set - meaning I didn't find out today's scores till post final whistle and was surprised by both...

Back over to Anne's mum's...

...where we picked up and took home some tasty Chinese fayre...

We caught up slightly with "Deutschland '86", frankly just wishing the action would move totally back to Deutschland but there you go...

It is indeed covering an aspect of recent German history of which we were not aware...

A good Saturday over...

Highlight of the Day : Good food, good musicking, good results...

A quarterly bout of carousing can be a good thing...

Playlist
John Cale - Music For A New Society
Various Artists - Fill Your Head With Rock
Chicago - Chicago
M - New York-London-Paris-Munich
Bach, J S - Lionel Rogg : Bach - Exploring the World of Music
Faust - The Faust Tapes
Asia - Asia
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Brian Eno - On Land
Françoise Hardy - In Vogue
Lou Reed - Berlin
David Bowie - Low
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
Neu! - Neu! 75
Fehlfarben - Monarchie Und Alltag (Remaster)
Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections
Simon & Garfunkel - Greatest Hits
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols
Public Image Limited - Metal Box
The Doors - The Doors
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire
The Church - The Blurred Crusade
Various - A History of the Single

A welcome wee visitor this morning in the shape of Fang the Black Cat...

This evening, the end of the quarter and some celebrations were undertaken...

...with chums Matty, Bernardo, CK, Gaz, The G Man and Prog Rock Willie...

Chum from last year, young Struan also visited with his "brother" the wee dog, whose name I do not know...

Mr Wheelie Bin, JK and Robbie were also in attendance briefly but went unpictured...

Around 6, with attendee levels fallen to 10, pizzas were required, pizzas were ordered, pizzas were collected...

...and pizzas were eaten - also pictured now Gillian, Wendy and Josh...

Not much was left a few minutes later...

There was chatting and drinking...

..and soon, the effects of said drinking kicked in with some singing...

...and selfie taking...

Eventually, dancing (of sorts) was added to the menu...

...as DJ Gillian took over the "decks"...

Your correspondent headed out into the night around 10:45, almost 7 hours into festivities which, by all accounts, stretched well into the early hours...

With 10 minutes to go till my normal bus, I got one going in the general direction but, of course was so engrossed in my Twitter feed that I ended up in the middle of nowhere...

Luckily, shortly afterwards, I was Executively Produced back to Crispycat Towers in the Cloudland Blue mobile, only very slightly the worse for wear...

A good night...

Highlight of the day : Carousing...

Bog not bol, that is the correct shortening...

Playlist

Various Artists - Boogie Chillen: Early Mods' First-Choice Vinyl

Various Artists - 100 Hits: 80s Essentials

Mark Templeton - Standing on a Hummingbird

Bill Orcutt - Bill Orcutt

The Neal Morse Band - Morsefest! 2017 - Testimony of a Dream

Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Various Artists - The Legacy of Disco

Colori Ensemble - Colori Miti

Various Artists - The Treasure Isle Story

Vasks - Music Of Peteris Vasks

George Benson - Jazz Masters Vol. 21

Iona Marshall - On The Rocks

Félix Dyotte - Félix Dyotte

Herbie Mann - First Light

First Aid Kit - The Big Black and The Blue

Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

Scott Walker - Boy Child: 67-70

Sandy Denny - Sandy

The Seekers - A Carnival Of Hits

Various Artists - Trojan Beatles Tribute Box Set

Various Artists - The Wire Tapper 21

Brian Eno - Live in Holland 1999

Lou Reed - Take No Prisoners (Live)
Roine Stolt's The Flower King - Manifesto of an Alchemist

Some music from the old iPad, in the kitchen, whilst breakfasting...

A tasty lunch today with Gina G as she will not be able to attend end of Quarter festivities tomorrow...

It just so happens that both of us cite Spaghetti Bolognese (aka Spag Bog) as our fave Italian dish...

These, then, enjoyed at Quattro Zero...

Yum...

Back home, post having started watching "Warhammer" which was so preposterous it was stopped around 30 minutes in and deleted, some prep for tomorrow, along with the initial compilation of this week's podcast... 

Anne was out this evening with Lynn, coincidentally, enjoying Italian cuisine at a restaurant next door to Quattro...

On her late return, we enjoyed the very last "Still Game"...

I found the closing scenes to be quite poignant, even thought the rest of the episode was just one of your normal "Still Game" story lines...

End of an era...

Highlight of the Day : Spag Bog...

The loss of memory and a small chocolate rabbit...

Playlist

Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire ancora

Laura Pausini - Inedito

Laura Pausini - Platinum Collection

Laura Pausini - Laura

Laura Pausini - From The Inside

Laura Pausini - Le Cose Che Vivi

Laura Pausini - 20: The Greatest Hits

Laura Pausini - Hazte sentir más

Laura Pausini - Fatti sentire

Laura Pausini - Simili

The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

Coheed And Cambria - The Second Stage Turbine Blade

Herbie Mann - First Light

Gentle Giant - In a Glass House

Laura Pausini - Primavera in Anticipo

Félix Dyotte - Félix Dyotte

Sonny Sharrock - Ask The Ages

Various Artists - A History of the Single

Wednesday is a bit of a blank - it may be that it was actually this evening that the Mexican delights were enjoyed?

Along with "The Goldbergs" on TV...

Certainly, it seems nothing of much import happened...

This arrived - nothing hugely jumping out...

I recall being up and into town very early, for various meetings throughout the day and my camera reminds me of the receipt this early Easter present from a mentoree...

...which was, of course, duly scoffed in the late afternoon...

Yes, I think it was indeed Mexican for tea, which means the Sea Bass was yesterday...

Oh well...

It's all good...

Highlight of the Day : Appreciation...