Partying without the guest of honour...

Playlist

The Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly And See

FRKTL -Excision After Love Collapses

Yello - Point

Deep Purple - Whoosh!

Secret Machines - Awake in the Brain Chamber

Chuck Berry - All Time Greats

Various Composers - Black Composers Series 1974-1978

Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Luminous

Nancy Wilson - The Very Best Of Nancy Wilson: The Capitol Recordings 1960-1976

Wayne Shorter - Odyssey of Iska

Elf - Elf

The Temptations - Gettin' Ready

Hawkwind - Road to Utopia

FRKTL - Prose Edda

Sunday morning...

My Record Store Day purchases awaited...

Who knew Chuck Berry’s Xmas no 1 live cover of “My Ding a Ling” was recorded at a polytechnic in Coventry on 3 Feb ‘72, in a set supporting Pink Floyd, who were playing “Dark Side of the Moon” over a year before it was released?

Here are the 100 records I've acquired on Record Store Days from 2008 to 2020...

Can you spot the only actually over-priced RSD release amongst them?

Today was the last day of the weekend and the last day before my mum reaches 90...

A few things for her were also on the desk...

Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, a couple of Raymond Chandlers, "The Name of the Rose" and the first ever Famous Fie adventure...

As to whether she will ever listen or read any of these, well that's another story...

Scenes...

A referred to record must be amongst all these somewhere - I did not look for it...

Coffee was purveyed in a cup of my song-based albums...

Collect the set here...     

Not the cups, the music...

A poll as to which of these four options would be the best cover for the "Beethoven" album...

The original idea, top left, won the day...

And so Max Klinger's statue of the maestro will not feature...

A call from Sister Sheila while we shopped for my mum...

Mum had fallen over in the night and been unable to reach her alarm and so had lain on the floor of her bedroom for several hours, till being discovered around 10:15 by her carer...

I dropped Anne at home and headed out...

The old lady was in her bed and not too bad...

We decided today's "party" would go ahead and that she might get up later...

Back home and then back out for 4pm, waiting on sister Sheila's side to arrive...

Eventually, they did and a cake, baked by Tori in Yorkshire was much admired...

Her boys slept for a while - which is a godsend re small children...

Here are some pics of my mum which I found on her dressing table...

...and my dad too...

...and my great Aunt Betty - she was to my mum as Anne and I are to the boys...

In her beloved North Berwick where my dad and sister Pam are...

Cards...

And a not very flattering pic of the birthday girl...

...who received visitors throughout the late afternoon...

Anne possibly quite liked the wee boys...

  

...while baby Harris was sick all over his mum...

An excellent large Chinese meal was enjoyed by everyone, except mum, and followed by the cake - quite a bit of which was left in her freezer and fridge for when she's better...

Kerr liked the flowers from it...

Portraits ensued...

...as is the way with families...

The house was tidied and we said our goodbyes...

Hopefully mum will be a bit better for the actual birthday tomorrow...

Home for some listening and some episodes of "Chuck"...

Highlight of the Day : Partying without the guest of honour...