Wednesday, December 02, 2020

The decision makers are idiots...

Playlist
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2019
Luther Adams - Lines Made By Walking
Lash - Filigree
Lee - Through the Mangrove Tunnels
Hallgrimsson - Cello Concerto; Herma
Edwards - White Ghost Dancing
Scott Fields Ensemble - Disaster at Sea
Tangerine Dream - Official Bootleg Series Volume 1
Lambert - True
Various Artists - Ultimate Summer Reggae
Sinéad Lohan - Who Do You Think I Am
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump...On a Wooden Piano
Johnny Cash - Man In Black: The Very Best Of Johnny Cash
Vivaldi - The Four Seasons (Solo Guitar)
Cœur de pirate - Comme des enfants [Single]
Various Artists - Trojan Presents: Boss Reggae
VArious - Non Stop Party Megamix
Daugherty - Deus Ex Machina
Carter - String Quartets #2, 3 & 4
In Croce - In Croce : Russische Kammermusik
Druckman - String Quartets 2 & 3
Rihm - Klavierwerke 1966-2000
Hilary Hahn - Higdon & Tchaikovsky
Robert Fripp - Music For Quiet Moments
Ligeti - The Ligeti Project
Timo Andres - I Still Play
Ter Veldhuis - There Must Be Some Way Out of Here
Dream Theater - Distant Memories : Live in London
Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
Mark Kelly - Marathon
ORA - Many Are The Wonders
Cat Power - Wanderer
Joni Void - Selfless
Tirzah - Devotion
Terakaft - Alone (Ténéré)
Riopy - Riopy
Kurtág - Petite Musique
Various Composers - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2020

Entertained first thing by an old podcast from, if I recall correctly ( I may not) 2017...

Nope, it was 2019...


Anyway, here is the beast, ready for action...


Post some initial compiling of the possible line up for this week's podcast, we set off to Roseburn to park and to walk to Haymarket for a slap up lunch...

The tree in front of which I photographed Anne and Lynn on Friday has started to be decorated by, I think, schoolchildren, using old CDs...


Sacrilege...

When we had Reptile Records, we'd go our once a year at Xmas for a meal and charge it to the business - it became known as the Reptile night out...

And this was the Reptile night out for 2020, albeit taking place in the afternoon...

And so, to the Omar Khayyam for a late lunch at 2:30 - we were the only people in...

The tray of goodies which came with the poppadoms was v tasty indeed...


...and much enjoyed in a private dining stylee...


Starters too were excellent - both of us opting for kebabs...



...while the Korai mains (chicken tikka for the EP, lamb for me) were top notch...


All in all, yum tastic...

But the way in which this lockdown is being applied is utter nonsense and is destroying businesses like this right left and centre...

Far better to stop people from meeting up in unregulated homes than in regulated restaurants surely?

Anyway, a walk back to the car in the gathering gloom and home to no tea of course...

Evening listening was the playlist for the weekend...

Wednesday over but a tasty one, if tinged with some measure of regret about what is happening to our fave restaurants around town...

Highlight of the Day : Lunch with the EP...

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