Postponed Xmas...

Playlist

The Gladiators - Dreadlocks The Time Is Now

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Events One and Two

Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - What Kinda Music

The Kinks - Kinks

Ten Walls - AA

Erika de Casier - Sensational

George Braith - Extension

Saunders, Rebecca - Rebecca Saunders: Solo

The Temptations - Meet The Temptations

Bliss - English Music for Strings

Davies, Tansy - Nature

King Crimson - Music Is Our Friend (Live In Washington & Albany 2021)

Juniore - Un, Deux, Trois

King Tubby - Dub

Black Country, New Road - For the First Time

R+R=Now - Collagically Speaking

Merlin - Round Midnight

France Gall - N'écoute pas les idoles

Creek - 1998-02-10

Creek - 1997-06-01

Creek - 1998-02-17

Creek - 1999-09-01

Creek - 2003-02-23

Creek - 2004-06-08 (Live at the Cafe Royal)

Creek - 2005-06-06

Creek - Tarnished

Creek - Creek 2015

Creek - Reconstructed

Creek - 2019

Reasonable upness...

...and working on compiling the line up for the first podcast of 2022...

I have a plan!

Cutting it down to 2 hours instead of 3 and recording on a Wednesday night instead of a Friday...

Each programme will have 20 tracks as follows...

A CBQ track, Rock, Funk/Soul, Reggae, Ambient, Contemporary Jazz, Classical, Prog Rock, Dub, Pop, Leftfield, Classic Jazz, Contemporary Classical and a track from each of the week's seven LPs of the day...

That should work...

For the non "LP of the Day" tracks, I will do my best to play from recent acquisitions...

For the first episode, I have 17 tracks at present, to which will be added LPs of the day for tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday...

Anyway, breakfast...

And then, working on Creek - I hope to upload all of our recordings to Bandcamp over the course of 2022 but want to start off with a compilation...

It will feature a track from each of the years, of those 25 (1997-2022) since we formed, that we've been active, in one way or another, i.e. 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2019...

Spent some time choosing the tracks and listening back...

...and doing a cover...

Around 12:30, out and over to Straiton to do my mum's shop then to hers for an hour and half or so for chat, lunch, coffee and showed her the pics from here from Xmas Day to yesterday...

Which kind of proved to her that her life is not any less boring than mine...

After over a year of having to repeat everything we say, this Friday sees a visit from "the man" who will hopefully resolve her ear issues...

We'll see...

At 3, to Jane and Bobby's for a delayed Xmas meal with Mary, Olly and Kitty - so Mary got to see Olly before he goes back to University...

Drinks and chat and then to the table - starting with lovely cheese dips...

...with which Olly was pleased...

...as was Mary despite this artistic pose...

There had been much prep throughout the day and right up to the last moment (here, Yorkshire puddings are being poured)...

A few minutes later, yum...

...followed by home made (and sadly unpictured) tiramisu...

With Mary's 90th happening this year, we looked back at previous big family trips away on the blog here (plus the following three days) and here (plus the following three days)...

Olly and Kitty very much enjoyed seeing their younger selves...

Here, a couple of "out-takes"...

2012

2017

What a difference 5 years makes when you're young...

When you're old, it flies past and not much seems to change, but it does...

A very kind lift home from Olly and a couple of things watched before hitting the sack...

Xmas was back, for a short time...

Highlight of the Day : Postponed Xmas...