Playlist
Various Artists - Eurovision 2021
Various Artists - Eurovision 2020
Various - The Wire Tapper 54
Frost* - Day and Age
Various - All You Need is Love
Seefeel - Rupt and Flex (1994 - 96)
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Blue Camel
Passport - Passport Control
Måneskin - Chosen
Måneskin - Il ballo della vita
Måneskin - Teatro d'ira (Pt 1)
Falco - Falco 3 (25th Anniversary Edition)
Various Composers - Best of Baroque
Pet Shop Boys - Cricket Wife
Pet Shop Boys - My Beautiful Laundrette
Lord Huron - Long Lost
Sparks - Number One in Heaven (Extended Version)
Olivia Rodrigo - Sour
Ferry Corsten - As Above So Below
Ferry Corsten - Don't Go OST
Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection Top 100 Albums of 2020
OK let's see if we can keep this going?
Up before six...
...under overcast skies...
...to download my faves from Eurovision, which, it appears, I have now done every year since 2016...
In retrospect, I probably undermarked France and overmarked Norway and Belgium, suitably adjusted below...
Final Results
Bulgaria
Italy
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Iceland
Lithuania
Moldova
Switzerland
Belgium
Spain
Greece
Cyprus
France
Later in the day, for posterity, I added the UK's entry and picked up some who exited at the semi final stage - Romania (sung again by my fave from last year, Roxen) plus Australia, Austria, Croatia and Poland, giving me an hour long selection of 20 songs...
Out shopping with Anne for us and for my mum, soundtracked by this and last years' Eurovision selections...
Back home and downloaded a few things - including all three available releases by the Italian winners, the debut LP by Olivia Rodrigo, a couple of new Pet Shop Boys things I stumbled across and new to me act Lord Huron - twangy Americana...
A couple of episodes of "Modern Family" and some toast and then off out to Loanhead to take my mum out, post delivering her shopping and doing the usual weekly chores...
We drove to Carberry Towers - a trip promised over 20 months ago for her 89th birthday but which, due to various things like her being ill, including having Covid and being hospitalised for months on end and the pandemic itself, was only now being able to be fulfilled...
Unfortunately, to get mum's wheelchair into the car, there was no room for Anne...
Here is the masked marauder in front of the venue...
...which I first visited in 1974 when it was a Church of Scotland retreat. It was here that I heard Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" for the first time - some earnest young man played our group of impressionable 14 years olds the song "Time"...
To be fair to him, it has indeed stuck with me all these years later - and frittering mine away is exactly what keeping this up to date does...
Anyway, mum was happy...
..and the place was fairly deserted to begin with, though a few people came in after us...
We realised quickly they expected us to order a full lunch but we were here for scones...
Luckily mum noticed the scone option nestling in amongst the sweets on offer far down the menu...
So we took two each to make up for the relatively low spend which was about to ensue - and because these are the best scones in the world - as noted last time I was here, with Anne, in July 2019...
Post scones and chat, a walk (for me, trundle for mum) around the grounds...
A rabbit was spotted...
...in the distance...
All over...
Mum home by five, me shortly thereafter...
Some more TV enjoyed, "The Chase" with Kevin Eldon, a couple of "Modern Family" and some of "The Antiques Roadshow" before I drew the line at "Call the Midwife" and retired upstairs to effect some more downloading, this time of the extended version of Sparks' classic "Number One in Heaven" and two ambient albums from Trance banger Mr Ferry Corsten...
Downstairs later with the nutphones on and some football watched before retiring...
Weekend over...
Highlight of the Day : Carberry Towers...
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