Back to writing...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyone: The Originals

Nova Twins - Supernova

Marty Holoubek - Trio III

Various Artists - Maximum Rhythm & Blue

Jenkins, K - Imagined Oceans

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells 2003

Grand Funk Railroad - All The Girls In The World Beware!!!

Various Artists - Taten Statt Warten - 25 Jahre Greenpeace

Various Artists - Now That's 1965-04 - 1966-02 (Extras)

Various Artists - Original Soul Classics

Rzewski - Rzewski Plays Rzewski Piano Works 1975-1999

Saga - Symmetry

John Pope Quintet - Mixed With Glass

Don Byron - Do The Boomerang

The Pineapple Thief - Give It Back (Rewired)

Graham Costello's Strata - Strata

Japan - Quiet Life

Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection

Brian Eno - Drums Between The Bells

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Cockney Rebel - A Steve Harley Anthology

Dweezil Zappa - Return of the Son of...

Extrabreit - Zurück Aus Der Zukunft

Rick Wakeman - The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur And The Knights Of The Round Table

Ian Hunter - From the Knees of My Heart, The Chrysalis Years (1979-1981)

Various Artists - The Best Of Blaxploitation

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2017 Drums and Bass

The Move - Message from the Country

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes

Lou Reed - Regent Theatre, Albury, Australia, 1st November 1977

Stereophonics - Decade In The Sun: Best Of Stereophonics

Miles Davis - The Complete Columbia Recordings: Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Biffy Clyro - Opposites

Matthew Florianz - zon der tijd ver gaat

Yellow Matter Custard - One Night In New York City

ETHEL - The String Quartets

Glenn Gould - Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Hammock - Oblivion Hymns

Various Composers - Music From The Era of Pieter Bruegel The Elder Vol 1

The Velvet Underground - VU

Maconchy - String Quartets I-IV

Various Artists - 101 Drivetime

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

Lambert - Excess

Schumann - Complete Works for Piano Trio

Various Artists - Jump Blue: Rockin' The Jooks

Sumner McKane - Two If By Sea

Sting - The Very Best Of Sting & The Police

Danubius Ensemble - Baroque Trio Sonatas

Nikitassova, Müller, Bötticher, Behr - The Violin's Delight, A Garden of Pleasure

Various Composers - Missa

Udo Lindenberg - Panik-Panther

Villa-Lobos - The Complete String Quartets

Various Composers - High Voltage! Giant Steps & Flashpoints In 20th-Century Experimental & Electronic Sound

Pendragon - The Masquerade Overture

If - If 3 (Remastered)

Stan Tracey - Under Milk Wood

Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes To Hell

Brandt Brauer Frick - Echo

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Nur Noch Einer

The first entry I've written up "the day after" for over nine weeks...

The views this morning...

...including the view ruining superfast broadband cable installed to our neighbour's house yesterday...

The view from the front remains good...

"What time was it Dave? You always tell us the time"

Well, it was around 6:25 am when I got up...

I set about uploading more entries from the last nine weeks (pictures wise) - which took an age, as each picture has to be individually re-sized...

I was accompanied by good LPs from Nova Twins (pop) and Marty Holoubek (jazz)...

At 8:30, Fang popped by and accompanied our breakfast...

...along with the latest Blue Note compilation into the collection...

For most of the rest of the day, the entire collection was on shuffleplay - hence the rather large playlist above...

More diary entry uploading post breakfast then, around 10, out to the dump with the dismantled big shoe rack thing from the porch which we replaced last week with a snazzy shelving unit...

We left Fang sleeping...

Post dump, we drove along to the Cat Protection shop and Anne donated two large bags of her no longer required shoes and clothes...

Back home to more uploading, while Anne popped to the shops...

A welcome chance meeting with old chum, artist, bassist and librarian, George Coleman...

As ever, when old chums are met, there is talk of getting together for drinks etc - now we are retired, maybe this will come to pass?

I finished the final post just before leaving for Tynecastle - actually not Tynecastle, as we'd been moved indoors at World of Football, due to the weather forecast - for today's session of walking football...

I have come to the conclusion that it's actually just ordinary football limited to three touches but, during which, a few of the players tend to walk rather than run, due to their age or injuries...

The rest? They run around as usual...

I have become one of the rest...

An enjoyable hour...

We won our first two games but, surprisingly were comprehensively beaten in our final game...

Their goalie was virtually unbeatable...

A good time...

Home for a shower, lunch and, in the company of Fang, some "Elementary" - commencing season two of this new favourite...

Finally, the rains did indeed come and, boy, did they come...

A massive thunder and lightning storm ensued...

I, of course, recorded it for future use...

Fang remained in situ (he eventually exited, almost 12 hours after coming in)...

Around 5, some music listening, followed by, as Anne painted, episode 2 of "The Man Who Fell to Earth" sequel....

Superb linguini and meatballs for tea...

...accompanied by more "Elementary"...

News from the Capital Models camp re Saturday's gig.  Our rehearsal last night was postponed to Thursday due to keyboardist Paul succumbing to Covid and bassist Keith also being under the weather...

Perhaps we'll have to play as a trio!

A break for more music listening and whittling my 100 LPs of 2010 down to 75...

Then, some 1976 Alice Cooper in the cans downstairs - I'd forgotten how good "Alice Cooper Goes to Hell" is...

Ended the day with one last episode of "Elementary" and Brandt Brauer Frick in the nutphones (followed by the final DAF LP)...

Good to be back writing...

Highlight of the Day : Still playing football at age 63...