Supporting the cats...

Playlist

Rush - Counterparts

The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle

Tim Curry - Read My Lips

Various Artists - Blue Break Beats Vol 3

Udo Lindenberg - Stärker Als Die Zeit

Sandra - 18 Greatest Hits

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica

Sparks - Propaganda

New Order - Waiting For The Sirens' Call

Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet

Glasperlenspiel - Licht & Schatten [Deluxe Edition]

Bryan Ferry - Dylanesque

Sumner McKane - North

Mathilde Santing - New Amsterdam

Scars - Author! Author!

Various Artists - Droppin` Science

Gabi Delgado - 2

Juliette Greco - La belle vie

2raumwohnung - es wird morgen (CD)

Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 Live vom Atlantik

Herbie Hancock - The New Standard

Brian Eno - Capsule [Single]

loscil - Equivalent 7 [Single]

Rheostatics - Here Come The Wolves [Single]

Taylor Swift - You Need To Calm Down [Single]

The Meters - Rejuvenation

Hollywood Vampires - Rise

Not just June but, indeed, half of 2019, gone...

This afternoon, post a visit to Ikea and the purchase of a few quite probably not really required items, including snazzy new cups and a snazzy new coffee cooker to replace the handle having fallen off Italian previous favourite of mine one, to the Lothian Cat rescue fundraiser...

So sad to see all the wee ctas in their pens but glad that there is so much support and that, hopefully, all will eventually be rehomed...

I did my bit...

To my mum's for a visit - her hearing aids are on the blink - the good ones that is - meaning everything having to be said twice re her not so good but almost double the price ones...

On the blink set taken away for a visit to the hearing aid shop at some point in the coming week...

To Anne's mum's and Kitty happy to no longer have her braces in...

...and sporting colourful nails...

A good turnout today...

...including a rare appearance from nephew Craig...

Charming...

Back home for some ripping listening and TV...

Weekend over...

Highlight of the Day : Supporting the cats...

Late June hail can be disconcerting...

Playlist

Hollywood Vampires - Rise

The Meters - Cabbage Alley

The Meters - Fire On The Bayou

The Meters - New Directions

Roger Waters - Us + Them

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Happy Is the Way (That Everyone Is Meant to Be) [Single]

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 2010s

Various Artists - The Skatalites & Friends : Phoenix City

Shostakovich - Shostakovich Chamber Sym. Op. 110a/Symphony For Strings Op 118 a

Shostakovich - Shostakovich Chamber Symphonies

Tasavallan Presidentti - Milky Way Moses

First listens this morning the new purchases from yesterday, followed by Roger Waters' set from this time last year and, then, the new CBQ recordings popped over to me last night by Creeker Craig...

Further feedback was provided...

I am liking these...

The living room is tidy once again but a new fire is, of course, needed...

Out uptown for various errands, including new trousers and including a walk up the mound...

...with its robot lawnmowers...

...and banks...

...to the Fringe shop to pick up tickets for later in the summer...

We stopped off in Princes St Gardens for a coffee on the way back...

We arrived home to find this...

...broken and abandoned...

We left him here - later he'd disappeared...

In the afternoon, recorded and uploaded last Saturday's and today's podcasts, only uploading the former, while, outside...

...hailstones hailstoned down...

Inside, I moved my hard drives to under the standing desk thing to try and keep things more tidy...

Success...

In the evening, super tasty Saghetti Bolognese and "Killing Eve" were the main events...

Highlight of the Day : A new track arriving...

New tracks arriving...

Playlist

Peter, Paul and Mary - Leaving on a Jet Plane [Single]

Creek - 2019

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Happy Is the Way (That Everyone Is Meant to Be) [Single]

The Meters - Rejuvenation

Various - History of the Single 1959-2019

First thing this morning, the first attempted rework of "Happy is the Way" by Creeker Craig arrived...

Excellent stuff and feedback provided...

A trip to Fopp at lunchtime today, resulted in the purchase of the new Alice Cooper/Hollywood Vampires disc...

...which rocks - along with a tasty 5CD box by the Meters, following the purchase yesterday of one of said 5 CDs...

They funk...

Party time once again this evening, with chums Joshua, Raymondo, Gina G, Gaz, The Jackmeister...

...Big Al, Spike, The G Man, Bernardo and an as yet unpictured Matty...

Pop quiz, drinking and pizza, with an arabiatta and interspersed Diet Irn Brus for your clean-living correspondent...

A good night...

...with Matty now pictured...

I left them to it around 8:30 and headed home for quick listens to today's purchases and a just arrived, post feedback, second version of the new CBQ track from Creeker Craig...

I was not the worse for wear which made a welcome change...

Highlight of the Day : New CBQ music on the go...

Chance discoveries can be the best discoveries...

Playlist

Leipziger Streichquartett - Festgrefreßen (?!)

Various Composers - Bachfest Leipzig 2006

Falco - Helden von Heute

Bach Museum Trio - Das Angenehme Pleiß-Athen

Die Ärzte - Live: Nach Uns Die Sintflut

Schweitzer - Schweitzer: Kammermusik

Jadin - Jadin: Quatuors à cordes - Oeuvre 1re

Miaskovsky - Nikolaï Miaskovsky - Quartets n° 1 and 13

Schneider - Preussens Hofkapellmeister

Herbie Hancock - The New Standard

Lajo Lencsés - Strauss, Koechlin, Britten & Zimmermann: Masterpieces For Oboe

Various Composers - Bachfest Leipzig 2010

Various Composers - Bachfest Leipzig 2007

Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick

Various Artists - The Skatalites & Friends : Phoenix City

Various Artists - A History of the Single - The 1960s

Hot and sunny...

...and so, of course, I was in a dark charity shop and picked these up for a few quid...

This is extremely funky...

Other than that, a decision made, as it has been countless times in the past, to be a little healthier...

There are many ideas out there that can help with such a goal (a gym is not one of them though!)...

Probably some telly late on...

Highlight of the Day : Discovering the Meters...