End of another year...

Playlist

Rammstein - Zeit

Loscil - The Sails, Pt 2

Porcupine Tree - CLOSURE / CONTINUATION

Lucy Kaplansky - Last Days of Summer

Klaus Schulze - Deus Arrakis

Pyrolator - Niemandsland

Long Distance Calling - Eraser

Matthew Florianz - mist schimmen

The Bad Plus - The Bad Plus

Brian Eno - Foreverandevernomore

Taylor Swift - Midnights

Elder - Innate Passage

Keaton Henson - Keaton's Party Playlist

Fehlfarben - ?0??

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentyone

Markus Reuter - TRUCE 2

Ethan Iverson - Every Note Is True

Tangerine Dream - Raum

loscil - The Sails, Pt 1

Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark

Michael Rother & Vittoria Maccabruni - As Long As The Light

Final day of 2022 - another not really that great year...

Or so it seemed but, when I looked through the pics, it was pretty good really...

January...

February...

March...

April...

May...

June...

July...

August...

September...

October...

November...

December...

And, counting today, all of these podcasts were done...

And these CBQ LPs were released...

And so, on we go...

Up...

...and listening to what will be in the podcast today (I should have recorded it yesterday but all the work on the new LP and the end of year celebratory visit from Lynn and Ross meant no time to)...

For the final podcast of 2022, content was to comprise the 52nd of my LPs available on Bandcamp this time last year, plus my 20 LPs of 2022...

The new LP, "Twentytwentytwo", last of the year, was also released of course...

Following discussions last night between Anne and Lynn, flights to Berlin in June for the two old schoolchums were booked and, later this morning, accommodation at the Russian Hotel Anne and I enjoyed in 2018 was also booked...

Good times!

I wonder what I'll do while they're away?

Very sad news this morning though...

Rory Custard had not been seen by Gayle and Kevin for over 48 hours...

This morning the poor wee man was found dead in their garden...

He has been part of the scene around Crispycat Towers since 2008 - here he is then, pictured through Meg the Black Cat's Cat Flap when he came to visit for the first time, 3 July 2008...

What a lovely wee cat he was - a timid soul who only ever walked around our street and sat on the garage and hut roofs overlooking the territory...

And, of course, when Gayle and Kevin were away, we would look after him...

A sad end to the year...

More "Emily in Paris" at lunchtime...

Finally got the podcast out around 6 or so, then ordered and collected a tasty Indian - although mine was not what I ordered!

...but was, nonetheless, very good indeed...

The evening was spent eschewing terrestrial TV in favour of Daniel Craig et al in "Knives Out" - which was good enough for us to add the next in the series to our list of things to watch...

Post that though, we struggled a bit to stay up till midnight but just made it...

Jools Holland looked worse than ever and the BBC Scotland offering was dire - apart from the fireworks...

It was ever thus...

And so another year ends and we move on into 2023...

It may well not be as good as 2022, or it may be better...

But we are here - and that's the main thing

Happy New Year!

Lowlight of the Day : The passing of Rory Custard...