Wise snails...

Playlist

Rod Stewart - Storyteller - The Complete Anthology: 1964-1990

Poulenc - Piano Music, Vol. 1

Sainte-Colombe Le Fils - Les Six Suittes Pour Basses De Viole Seule

Satie - L'Œuvre Pour Piano

Orka - Leipzig

Carly Simon - No Secrets

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

John Coltrane - Trane 90

Various Composers - Shakespeare in Music

At The Drive-In - In/Casino/Out

Islands - Return To The Sea

Sommerfeldt - Fra Norsk Landskap

The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Shout: The Essential Alex Harvey

Various Artists - Pure... Rock

Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos (Complete)

Various Composers - BBC Proms Centenary 1895-1995

Max Nagl Ensemble - Quartier Du Faisan

Various Composers - 40 Years Das Alte Werk

Various - Hyperion: A 10th Anniversary Sampler

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020

Roger Waters - Encores

Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments

Scriabin - The Transcendentalist

Just made it up pre 7...

..and to finishing off the recording of the podcast...

Scenes as I obtained a coffee...

Today is nephew Craig's birthday - 34...

At that age, we were around three years into our record shop owning adventure...

Here he is a nineteen...

Out for provisions, which prompted this breakfast...

Then, to changing the covers decorating the classical CD boxes to those of the disc at the start of each box, better re knowing the content more exactly...

Around midday, what's this?

Bassist and drummer extraordinaire and chum for over 40 years, Keith was here, with his ladders, to do some work on our guttering...

The band was back together...

...kind of...

I was the wingman at the bottom of the ladder but managed some pics from around the garden too...

How does so much mud get onto the roof?

Anne temporarily removed the feeding station round the front...

Some looking at the roof followed....

...while I looked at the flowers...

...reneging on my wingman duties for a few moments...

...while looking at more flowers...

..and the waiting feeding station...

A butterfly entertained...

..before disappearing...

Back to duty and the work continued and took longer than expected...

These snails were wisely keeping out of the way...

...of Keith's machinery...

Finally, it was done and coffee and biscuits and chat were enjoyed...

Yesterday, our chum Lynn - whom I've known for over 40 years (and whom Anne's known a lot longer), also visited but was unpictured...

The rest of the afternoon was spent on two episodes of "Chuck" and today's random LP, this from the mighty Sparks...

"Whomp That Sucker" from 1981...

Two on from "Number 1 in Heaven" and Moroder is still on board but this sounds more like their mid 70's heyday...

 I have 14 Sparks LPs (Alice Cooper, Yes and Francoise Hardy are the only acts by whom I have more)...

A tasty tea of broccoli based spaghetti accompanied this week's "Vera"...

Some late night listening and another Saturday was gone...

Highlight of the Day : Catching up with Keith...