Saturday, December 24, 2022

Expert cooking can trump the best of Xmas films...

Playlist
Black Thought & Danger Mouse - Cheat Codes
Big Thief - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentytwo
Tom Rogerson - Retreat to Bliss
Hammock - Oblivion Hymns
Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now
Laura Pausini - Singles & Remixes
Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks
Rick Wakeman - Piano Portraits
Frederico Albanese - Before and Now Seems Infinite
Language Lab - Alpha EP
Marillion - An Hour Before It's Dark
Presque l'Amour - Tu m'as trop ment (Single)
Bryan Adams - So Happy It Hurts
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Very Best Of Herb Alpert
Roger Eno - The Turning Year
Bruno Bavota - Piano Works Vol.1
Ludovico Einaudi - Underwater
Jóhannsson - 12 Conversations With Thilo Heinzmann
Soft Cell - Purple Zone (w/Pet Shop Boys) (EP)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution II
Joep Beving - Hermetism
Bjørn Riis - Everything To Everyone
Luke Howard - All Of Us
Pärt - wherever I go​.​.​.
Moby - Reprise - Remixes
Roger Eno - The Turning Year
Kelly Clarkson - Kellyoke
Lucy Kaplansky - Last Days of Summer
Various - Lucifer Seasons 1-5 (Original Television Soundtrack)
Florian Christl - About Time
Brian Eno - FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE (DL)
Tangerine Dream - Raum
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Edward Spark - Fallentime
Angus & Julia Stone - Down the Way
William Fitzsimmons - Covers, Vol. 1
Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb 2022
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
Lana Del Rey - Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd
Keaton Henson - Keaton's Party Playlist
Mathilde Santing - Forty Nine
Fehlfarben - ?0?? (2022)
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwentytwo
Various - The Milano Jukebox 2022

Xmas Eve, the best day of the year, I think...

I was up early to record the second half of the podcast and get it up online...

Post breakfast, we popped out for a walk down the hill and a look round what passes for "the shops" down there...

This wee monkey lit up the day on the way down...






On we went...


A look in GuitarGuitar, noting nice white bass guitars and guitars...

But bread was our only purchase and an hour and a half or so later, we were back...


Lunch was followed by, of course, "It's a Wonderful Life"...


I seemed to have something in my eye at various moments...

An accidental pic of the sofa was taken - no doubt an album cover at some point down the line...


Fang enjoyed the film too of course...



Almost 3 hours of fun...


Fizzy wine was enjoyed as Xmas Eve tea was prepped...



...and declared to be the best Xmas Eve Tea ever...


A film was stumbled upon on Netflix and much enjoyed, "RIPD" (Rest in Peace Dept) with Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges...

Then to creating the final present for Anne, my annual round up of "the best" music of the year...


This year's is the 25th of the series, which started with a box of 7 or 8 CDs back at Xmas 1998...

With that done and burned and wrapped, I put the playlist on the phone and went back downstairs to listen on the headphones while Anne watched TV...

Of course, I was soon asleep...

Almost Xmas...

Highlight of the Day : It's a Wond...no, wait, the best Xmas Eve Tea ever...

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