Ninety Three not out...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno (Single)

Yes - Heaven & Earth

Yes - The Quest

YEs - Mirror to the Sky

Yes - The Steven Wilson Remixes

Creek - 1998-06-01 End of the Art World

Matthew Florianz - A River Buried in Sand: Ambiences for Imaginary Games

Up at 6 on my old mum's 93rd (!!) birthday...

Scenes...

This morning, round to Anne's mum's - here she is trying to remember what it was she was supposed to be doing...

She knew all along it was the Murrayfield Club..

Out to the bus...

...and off she went...

...while I tried to create something arty from the blatantly missed mother-in-law waving out the window of the bus pic...

To Homebase re paint for Anne re the bathroom - spotted these...

Hmmm...

Here comes Annie...

...with the old tin and the new tin...

A wee rest back home with Luna the Cat...

Super tasty lunch involving Spanish Smoked Rice, Spring Onions, Big Peas and Crème Fraiche...

...while the relaxing continued...

Re the birthday, at 4 or so, out...

..and to my mum's...

Lovely flowers from her podiatrist's garden...

To the Navaar in Penicuik for a birthday tea...

Ali, Harris and Julie in attendance...

...along with sister Sheila, husband, Senior, mum's great grandson, Kerr, the old lady and me and Annie... 

Tasty fayre and super large portioning from the friendly, unpictured, chef...

Back home, mum declared the event a success...

93 eh? Some age...

Doing quite well all things considered...

Home to Luna...

...some telly, some music and bed...

Highlight of the Day : Birthday celebration...

Today's New Music:-

No goals but plenty of action...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Brahms

Various Composers - Ode A La Nuit

Capital Models - 2020-03-10

Capital Models - 2021-09-12

Capital Models - 2022-05-14 Live in Roslin

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Glam! 

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 2023-03-30 Demos

Capital Models - In Concert 2021-08-11

Capital Models - 2023-07-07 Pre Wedding Party

Capital Models - Live 2023

Orange County Death March - All The Swimming Pools In California

Taylor Swift - The Complete Eras Megamix (Single)

Various Artists - Year End Megamixes

Chip Wickham - Love & Life (EP)

Up, funnily enough...

Got to get up if you want to do stuff...

No one told Luna...

There is the prospect of a gig soon for Capital Models, based around Bowie, Velvets, Roxy & Eno covers, plus some of my own songs, so some time spent putting together a demo of the covers aspect...

Tonight to the football and delayed for 15 minutes by the presence of young hockey players...

Another good game and I remained outfield for the entire hour - a tight win 9-8, having been 7-2 up...

No goals for your footballing hero though...

Home for tea to Anne and Luna...

...and some TV enjoyed...

Highlight of the Day : Footballing...

Today's New Music:-

Cat out, cat in...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2023/24 (Live Set Rehearsals)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno

Alice Cooper - Road

Alice Cooper - School's Out (Expanded & Remastered)

T Rex - Tanx

King Crimson - Red

Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo

David Bowie - Heroes

Yes - Going For The One

Jacques Loussier Trio - The Best of Plays Bach

To the desk around 7:25...

...and some work done, including on the Fripp & Eno project and a rehearsal for Newcastle, before heading to my mum's to take her to the dentist in Penicuik...

Parked, took her in and left her to it...

The beast was about its business in the charity shops of Penicuik...

A call to take me back to pick mum up and we drove to The Steading, luckily obtaining quite possibly the only unbooked table in the entire place - it was packed...

Mum was pleased with her Ginger Beer & Lime...

But, of course her "small portion" of fish & chips was still too big, in her opinion (she scoffed the lot)...

My haggis was top notch...

Here, some pics demonstrate the comparative ease with which she enters and exits the vehicle taking her here and there (despite her mantra of "I can't do it" - I know if I don't help her, she does do it, and she does it admirably)...

Post lunch...

Back home...

She asked me later what I'd done with the grill on her cooker...

Erm, there is no grill on her cooker and there never has been...

I took these to show her the relative tidiness of the "new" set up...

Home to rip and listen to the new acquisitions...

I fished out my Vivaldi collection - you can't have too much Vivaldi...

Here is the haul in detail...

£1 each...

Vivaldi concerti...

2 more CDs of Vivaldi concerti - East German recordings from the time of the DDR...

An album covering the U2 LP (quite probably their best) "Achtung Baby"...

Gregory Porter - despite my knowing there's no place for vocals in jazz...

Jacques Loussier but, sadly, recorded in the 80's with his second trio...

A 2CD set of lovely Bach Cantatas...

A quid for each of them...

Result...

And to cap all that off, a lovely chicken and leek pie from the EP...

Fang popped by...

Perhaps he knew...

...that these were his last goodies for a while as...

...shortly after these were taken...

..he pished on the living room wall and was chased out of the house...

Anne rehung a painting in the porch after much palaver re the hook etc...

Then, Luna the Guest Cat arrived for around a 10 day stay, which means Fang is banned for the duration...

She's a well-behaved wee cutie of course...

On telly, "Teenage Bounty Hunters " came to an end - with another never to be resolved due to cancelation cliffhanger..

Oh well...

Highlight of the Day : Arrival of Luna...

Today's New Music:-