Eggs, of the poached variety, can be a highlight in times such as these...

Playlist

The Weeknd - After Hours

Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

Agnes Obel - Myopia

Jacaszek - Music For Film

Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Nils Frahm - Empty

Steve Adey - The Tower Of Silence

Nels Andrews - Off Track Betting

Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox - Connected

Ashra - Sunrain: The Virgin Years

Bad Lieutenant - Never Cry Another Tear

Blaer - Yellow

Robert Berry - The Dividing Line

Battles - Mirrored

Graham Bond - Solid Bond

Listening today, initially, seven new downloaded acquisitions...

Morrissey is particularly good...

The Eno is much better than the reviews...

In all, a good haul

And so, March gone...

Perhaps the strangest month most people on the planet have ever known...

Up early and to work...

The views this morning...

Teddy was at the window on the look out for children who were on the lookout for teddies at windows...

Poached eggs for breakfast...

Meanwhile...

A distinct lack of children it seemed...

A new "project" started...

Play four not that well known LPs for each letter of the alphabet...

A...

Lunch...

B...

Tea..

Oh. My. Lord...

But then, you can't beat Baked Beans I always say...

People on Whatsapp asking me to post a pic of what I was drinking...

Here you go...

A conversation on Twitter led to these pics...

An excellent collection...

"Holby City" was good...

As were "The Windsors"...

Is this really how we are to spend the end odf days?

It appears so...

Highlight of the Day : Poached eggs!

£8.39 used to be quite a lot of money...

Playlist

Lou Reed - Berlin (RM)

Elton John - Caribou

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance (RM)

Wishbone Ash - There's The Rub

Various Artists - The Best Ever - Road Trip

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (RM)

David Bowie - Young Americans

Uriah Heep - Wonderworld

The Velvet Underground  - Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground

Pink Floyd - The Endless River

John Foxx - The Garden

Up late...

...and four LPs this morning all purchased on the same sunny day back in 1975...

The views...

Breakfast was Weetabix and banana, lunch was this very tasty sandwich - I am becoming addicted to Branston Pickle...

Uh oh...

Another picture of some shelves...

This afternoon, four furtehr LPs, all purchased in April and May 1975, for a grand total of £8.39...

I was surprised to find that, in today's money, that would be £75!!

Pink Floyd's final effort soundtracked Anne's deft creation of yet another superb Red Thai Chicken Curry...

Post that, out for a constitutional - to a not that often visited part of our environs - noting more tree chopping down activity...

...and the sun going down again...

This evening I took pictures of around 130 of my remaining 12" singles...

Click on it to expand if interested...

There was no particuar reason for this - other than someone on Twitter asking if anyone had any 12" singles...

I posted up just 4...

At random...

Some TV...

I think it might have been tonight or maybe last night we finished off "The First"...

Only to find it was then cancelled...

So we'll never know if Sean Penn made it to Mars...

Or back...

Highlight of the Day : Old records...

Sunday in lockdown...

Playlist

Steve Howe - Beginnings

Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)

Various Composers - Shutter Island OST

Nikolov-Ivanovic Undectet - Frame And Curiosity

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Deep Purple - 24 Carat Purple

The Tubes - Young and Rich

Kiss - Destroyer

Franco Battiato - Shadow, Light

Giles, Giles & Fripp - Cheerful Insanity Of Giles, Giles & Fripp

Allan Holdsworth - Atavachron

OK Go - Oh No

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Talk Talk - Natural History: The Very Best Of Talk Talk

The Amsterdam Chamber Music Society - Treasures of Russian Chamber Music

Various Composers - Music of the 20th Century : The United Selection

Hammock - Mysterium

The Who - My Generation

Paolo Pandolfo - Bach - The Six Suites

Jimmy LaFave - Cimarron Manifesto

Various Artists - Chicago Hit Factory - The Vee-Jay Story 1953-1966

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Lost Songs [Limited Edition]

Various Composers - Classic CD (1991)

Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour

Various Artists - Trojan Jamaica Box Set

You Say Party! We Say Die! - Xxxx

Various Composers - Spirales

Lambchop - OH (Ohio)

Various Artists - Right On! Vol 3

Schlammpeitziger - Collected Simplesongs of my Temporary Past

Brodsky Quartet - Lament

Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte

Here I am today in my ludicrous shirt...

Looks even worse in colour...

One of my so-called "performace" shirts...

I don't like it much any more...

Meanwhile the view this morning...

A day spent working...

The soundtrack was mainly a couple of new downloads followed by 3 LPs acquired in the summer of 1976, all classics, by The Tubes, Kiss and Deep Purple...

Then, my first draft of the tracs for next week's podcast...

Chosen by duration once again...

For tea this evening, a lovely steak pie source from the local butcher by the EP...

A drive to the real office tonight to do some printing and scanning...

Eerie and weird...

Eventually tonight, my work was done and I closed down for the night...

A tidy desk is a happy desk...

Some pics of art book shelves for no reason...

..and some Bach...

 OK, all Bach...

I took this book to the living room for a read...

As ever, I failed, due to the lure of the Twitter...

Tartan trews were to the fore...

That's a Sunday in lockdown that is...

Highlight of the Day : Getting some work done...

Third time lucky...

Playlist
Ken Hensley - Eager To Please
Ken Hensley - Proud Words on a Dusty Shelf
Various Artists - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020
Capital Models - 2020-03-10
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentynineteen
Cloudland Blue Quartet - SXTY (Latest Mix)
Creek - 1999-11-02
Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
Zemlinsky - The String Quartets (LaSalle)
Anthony Rother - Art Is a Technology
Kaito - Hundred Million Love Years
Christoph Merki - Twenty Thousend Leagues Under The Sea
Public Image Limited - The Greatest Hits, So Far
Jimmy LaFave - Cimarron Manifesto
Various Composers - Classic CD (1991)
David Sylvian & Robert Fripp - Damage
William Tyler - Deseret Canyon
Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte
Lambchop - OH (Ohio)
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Various - 21st Century Trance 4
Various - The Legacy of Disco
John McLaughlin - Black Light
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Wes Montgomery - Movin' Along
Capital Models - 2020-02-25
Various Artists - Funked!: Volume 1 1970 - 1973
Paul McCartney - Flaming Pie
Yes - Talk
Various Composers - The World of Your Hundred Best Tunes - The Top Ten
John Cale - Slow Dazzle
Johnny Harris - All To Bring You Morning
Various Composers - Shutter Island OST
Max Richter - Voyager: Essential Max Richter

I did not mention that, while Anne was cooking last night, I recorded the links for today's podcast...

So, up just after six to get it done...

The views from the office, first thing...

Back...

Front...

Inside...

Done in the two hours it takes to record and then, a break for breakfast - a tasty treat from the butcher...

..and some time spent in the living room just listening to Radio 4, with the Rev Richard Coles...

Then to uploading the podcast...

Done...

But then...

I discovered some glitches in tracks 3, 4 and 5...

I had to delete it and re-record those parts and then insert that into the existing MP3 over the glitched part...

Then uploaded it all again...

Done (pt 2)...

Then, the MP3 had stayed exactly the same length and so the start and end of the podcast had both been cut off...

And so, once again, I had to delete...

Had to re-record the start and end and re-edit it all together for the third time...

Finally out into the world around 2pm - just the 8 hours after getting going this morning...

Done (pt 3)...

Then some more WFH - which is simpler at the weekends as no colleague is e-mailing me incessant questions...

Anne started cooking a very tasty indeed lamb curry...

There was a four hour timeframe for this, so, with just the rice to go, we popped out for a walk...

Nicer weather today than yesterday...

Not sure what the story was...

...re this...

Onwards...

A chat in the street with neighbour Gail via her bedroom window...

She reckons it's this till at least August...

Uplifting...

Home...

In the kitchen, I noted the wee cat on the calendar was showing us how to wash our hands...

The last of yesterday's white wine was enjoyed....

...along with the today compiled initial playlist for next Saturday's podcast...

This, by Hammock, was particularly beautiful...

...as was Anne's curry - outdoing any Indian restaurant, I'd say - and I've been to a few...

We continued "The First" with episodes 3, 4 and 5, followed by two of "Extras" - already 15 years old - noting a very young "Mr Hansen" from "Holby" in one of the roles...

Lights out just after midnight...

Highlight of the Day : Anne's curry...