Monday, May 31, 2021

It can pay to take advice on walking...

Playlist
Motorpsycho - The All Is One
Grand Drive - True Love & High Adventure
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Sparks - Balls
Laura Pausini - Entre Tú Y Mil Mares
Dar Williams - The Green World
Chad Wackerman - Scream
Herbert Grönemeyer - Chaos
Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!
Mansun - Little Kix
Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream
Roger Joseph Manning Jr And Brian Reitzell - Logan's Sanctuary OST
Dido - No Angel
Madonna - Music
Joshua Redman - Beyond
Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache
Medeski Martin & Wood - The Dropper
Larmousse - Larmousse
Spock's Beard - V
Explosions in the Sky - How Strange, Innocence
Lambchop - Nixon
BT - Movement In Still Life
Rodrigo Leao - Alma Mater
David Holmes - Bow Down To The Exit Sign
Anthony Rother - Simulationszeitalter
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
The Lonely Bears - Injustice
Udo Lindenberg - Der Exzessor
First House - Cantilena
Reid Anderson - The Vastness Of Space
Pan•American - 360 Business / 360 Bypass
Keimzeit - Smart und gelassen warten
Enigma - The Screen Behind The Mirror
Sakamoto - Bttb
Roy Hargrove - Earfood
Tangerine Dream - The Seven Letters From Tibet
Jane Siberry - Hush
k.d. lang - Invincible Summer
Aimee Mann - Bachelor No. 2
Capital Models - 2021-04-25
Cloudland Blue Quartet featuring Capital Models - Twentytwenty
Dio - Magica
Frost* - Day and Age
Marsh - Marsh: 5 Symphonies
Bosso - String Quartet No 5 : Music for "The Lodger"
Jason Falkner - All Quiet on the Noisefloor
Weinberg - Complete Piano Works Volume 4
Alice Peacock - Minnesota
Moby - Reprise
claire rousay - a softer focus
The Alvaret Ensemble - Ea
Cuarteto Quiroga - Granados & Turina Piano Quintets
Reicha - Reicha Rediscovered Vol 3
BRUIT ≤ - The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again
Amati Quartet- 200 Jahre Streichquartett
Huelgas Ensemble - Ciconia: The Complete Works
Arcade Fire & Owen Pallett - Her OST
MX-80 SOUND - Hard Attack
Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul
Bang on a Can All Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary
Hainbach - Landfill Totems
Philippe Jaroussky - Opium
Martina Bertoni - Music For Empty Flats
Stephen Mathieu & David Sylvian - Wandermüde
Clark - Playground In A Lake
Rhye - Home
William Doyle - Great Spans of Muddy Time
Einaudi - 12 Songs From Home
Fee Waybill - Fee Waybill Rides Again
Robert Berry - 3.2 Third Impression
Gotan Project - Inspiración, Espiración
Alborosie - Dub Clash
Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Jiri Malat - Mannheimer Schule, Vol. 1-5
Gojira - Fortitude
Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club
Black Swan - Repetition Hymns
Ulrich Schnauss & Jonas Munk - Eight Fragments of an Illusion
Motorpsycho - Kingdom of Oblivion
In The Pines - Slow Blink
Frost* - Day and Age
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Lord Huron - Long Lost
Transatlantic - Forevermore
worriedaboutsatan - Providence
Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How To Breathe Like A Stone
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021

Up late today...


...and May came to an end...


Views from above...


...including the two "third", Eno set up, speakers... 



An early visit from Fang...


Anne was off with her mum to the eye pavilion - where Mary's recent op was deemed a success, her eye test went swimmingly and she has been discharged - great news...

Meanwhile, as I WFH'd upstairs, I left Fang by the open window to leave when he wanted...


...and head out into this...


He waited around for a wee while....


...before heading off...

Anne came home for lunch and two "Modern Family" then it was back to work for me while Anne enjoyed the sun outside...

This evening, pre tea, a walk - just like the old lockdown days...


It was a lovely evening in our "garden"...


We made our way up the hill to the "walled garden" past this new thing, a forest kindergarten...


In...















...we did not see any busy frogs, or, indeed, any frogs...



There were a couple of robins here but they'd flown off by the time I took the pic...



Here is a tree growing at the kindergarten...


We made our way home...





...spotting this wee monkey on the way...


The last of Bobby's Xmas gin was enjoyed...


...and Anne made "gunpowder chicken"...


...which was mighty tasty indeed...


In the evning, another two "Breaking Bad" - getting set up for the final run in...

Then the last of season 8 of "Modern Family", only to find we have to shell out £15 a season for 9 and 10 and 11 is nowhere to be seen...

Hmmm...

Off to bed, a -pondering...

Highlight of the Day : A lovely walk - which I confess I didn't want to take...

Sunday, May 30, 2021

A contraption can make things easier...

Playlist
Loscil - Clara
Black Midi - Singles 2019-2021
Loscil - Strathcona Variations
Capital Models - 2020-03-10
Capital Models - 2020-02-09
Capital Models - 2018-09-23
Capital Models - 2020-01-12
Orlando Lopez - Cachaito
Earthworks - Earthworks
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death)
Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer!
Ronan Keating - Ronan
Radiohead - Kid A
Nigel Kennedy & Jaz Coleman - Riders On The Storm - The Doors Concerto
Reid Anderson - The Vastness Of Space
Allan Holdsworth - The Sixteen Men Of Tain
Chad Wackerman - Scream
St Vincent - Daddy's Home

Early to rise, etc...


Accidental pic...


The view from the floor...


The view from above...


Breakfast...


...was followed by some adding and tagging of downloaded music...

At 11:30, over to my mum's to take her to the Gyle shopping centre to (a) do her weekly shop (b) allow her to spend a token received at Xmas for Marks & Spencer and purchase a present for her chum Jeanette and (c) have a spot of lunch...

Into Morrisons, contraption secured...


..and round we went...


Back to the car to unload and then back in...


...and along to M&S where there was some protracted discussion re the nature of two tops to be bought - let's just say our ideas were not in synch....

In the end, two nice ones (in my mum's eyes  - which was the important thing) chosen - and a nice scarf too for her friend (my childhood next door neighbour)...

Then, to the café for toasties and tea...



A long drive home as the bypass was blocked...

Mum was soon back in her home in her seat with all chores done and shopping packed away...

Home for coffee in the back garden with Anne...


I tried out the Almond milk I'd bought -  a third of the calories of skimmed milk...

Unfortunately, this was reflected in its taste...

It will probably be OK in cereal...

Anne went for our own shopping and I continued to bring things up to date...

Organizing too the choosing of the set list for next Sunday - each member of the group picks four songs...

Watched a video of clips of every single Eurovision winner - dearie me some absolute howlers in there...

On Anne's return, we watched the enjoyable film "Shazam" - starring "Chuck", Zachary Levi...

Then more "work" while Anne made a tasty curry for tea...


In the evening, commenced choosing and researching albums for the latest year on the Twitter, 2000...

"Needed" to download around 15 LPS I don't seem to have...

A couple of "Modern Family" and off to bed at midnight...

Highlight of the Day : Hmmm... Definitely Anne's curry - although shopping with my mum was reasonably enjoyable too...