When tidying is the highlight of your day...

Playlist

Max Richter - Sleep

Gidon Kremer - De Profundis

Various Composers - Classic CD (1990)

Byrd - Masses For 3, 4 & 5 Voices

Burns - My Love is Like a Red Red Rose

Mozart - Symphonies #38-41

Daniel Hope - Spheres

Philippe Jaroussky - Opium

Kats-Chernin - Unsent Love Letters, Meditations On Erik Satie

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Morphinecodex (24 Disc Set)

Various Composers - Classic CD 122

Chopin - The Complete Etudes

Kronos Quartet - Early Music (Lachrymæ Antiquæ)

Beethoven - Beethoven - The Complete String Quartets

John Rutter: The Cambridge Singers - Images Of Christ

Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag

Francoise Hardy - Message Personnel

Herman Van Veen - Herman Van Veen I

Francoise Hardy - Francoise Hardy II (In Vogue)

Strauss, R - Der Rosenkavalier

Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Krenek - Piano Works

Max Richter - Ad Astra OST

Up, after having listened to Max Richter's "Sleep" overnight - no-one ever hears the middle part!

As of today, the Xmas decorations and cards are down - all over for another year, granted, a day early but, hey ho...

Breakfast at home...

And, on the last day of the holidays, I continued with the task of compiling the playlist re the book "Year of Wonder"...

For January, I've had to find 10 pieces I didn't already have...

Which is a good thing, I think...

Today I sourced a recording of Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenklavier" to fill the final gap for January...

Mission accomplished...

At lunchtime, post Anne returning from a shopping trip with her mum, "The Umbrella Academy" enjoyed...

 In the afternoon, some records also enjoyed...

This, Herman Van Veen's debut from 1968 was one of four...

It's today's Random LP of the Day...

Of course, it's all in Dutch so I don't have a Scooby what he's on about...

I also slightly rearranged the desk...

Pleased with it so far...

And moved the rocking chair back into the computer room, leaving the back room more "tidy", a la this...

I was pleased with that, as you can see...

Time for a shave soon methinks...

Meanwhile, Anne's painting continued apace...

An "end of the holiday" Chinese Takeaway was enjoyed - one last hurrah before getting back on the wagon...

On telly, the return of the real "University Challenge" - once again we were second, scoring a reasonable 135 points...

And a new thing, set in Dundee was deemed "not bad"...

Highlight of the Day : Tidying...