Brunchtastic, plus music...

Playlist

Robert Glasper - Black Radio III

Avril Lavigne - Love Sux

Creek - Somewhere Between

Tangerine Dream - Raum

Whitacre - Marimba Quartets

Notos Quartet - Hungarian Treasures

Matt Haimovitz, Christopher O'Riley - Troika

Francis MacDonald - Music For String Quartet, Piano & Celeste

AES DANA - Interstice

Awoke and commenced the day's listening with Robert Glasper's new record...

Then, Avril Lavigne...

Both good but kind of suffer by having just too many lyrics perhaps...

Unlike Creek, who have none...

Anyway, up...

Biog updated re the upcoming Creek re-releases...

Podcast plugged again - Saturday morning used to be publication time...

And my 1998 choices whittled to 40...

Out around 8:30 am...

...for the bus to that Glasgow...

Phones charging...

Pics taken...

Arrived around 9:50...

..and into the Subway over to Kelvinbridge...

...and out..

..to meet up with nephew Olly...

 ...for a tasty brunch...

...at Kothel on the Great Western Road...

...followed by a walk almost the full length of Byre's Road...

To the Oxfam Music shop...

...where extortionately priced LPs were eschewed but these were partaken of...

Then, a walk back up to the Botanics...

...where we bade goodbye to the boy - he was off back to his flat to enjoy the St Mirren v Hearts match this afternoon...

Popped into the Shelter shop on Great Western Road and picked up these for a quid each...

Then, on, back past Kothel...

...to Otago...

...and old fave, Mixed Up...

They still haven't reinstated their great big £1 CD section...

...but I took these for £3 each...

This features my distant relation, John Fleming on sax...

...and some analog synth stuff...

Then, the Subway back to town...

...where we split up, with me heading to Missing...

I spent 45 minutes here and picked up all of these for a total of just £2...

Back out and Anne was waiting...

A walk along to the East end of the centre and into new place, Marmalade Skies, for a couple of drinks...

We were not obeying the message on the glass...

...and nor had I re the CD splurge...

We decided on an early tea and walked to the nearby Kooba...

...for their very tasty indeed pre theatre dinner..

We both opted for Chicken Tikka Massala, a Glasgow invention...

A walk back to the bus station took us past my old office from 1986 to 1989 in George Square

Onto the bus before 6...

...and, post a walk back up the hill, home just after 7...

..with a pile...

Some initial ripping and listening, before the highlights of Hearts' 2-0 win in Paisley (Queens won 1-0 away at Ayr - hope is not yet dead) and the final two episodes of the excellent French thriller "The Promise" took us to 11 pm...

To bed before midnight on what I would call, my kind of Saturday...

Highlight of the Day : A trip...