Playlist
Various Artists - Alison Reilly Music
Earthside - Let The Truth Speak
Propaganda - Propaganda
Grand Electric - Dawn
Klaus Doldinger's Passport - Doldinger
Dream Theater - Night Terror
Cosmic Gate - MOSAIIK Chapter Two
The Bad Plus - Casa Ben
The Bad Plus - Electric Face (Single)
The Bad Plus - Epic Bad Plus
Joe Bonamassa - Different Shades Of Blue (Overdrive)
Cloudland Blue Quartet & Sombre Reptiles - Decades
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Glam! III (Preparatory Work)
Bob Dylan - Rough and Rowdy Ways
Alice Cooper - Detroit Stories
Up in the dark, on New Music Friday and partaking of a few things as usual...
Wrote up mum's send off and yesterday's "normal" entry and uploaded the music to a different Mixcloud account so that that can be in the send off post and stay there...
Post breakfast, out to Loanhead to meet up with Sheila, Andrew, Andy and Ali (plus Dougie and Lockie - so Tori could work remotely)...
We were here, ostensibly, to sort stuff into "Keep", "Charity" and "Dump"...
Early on, I found this - the mystery of mum's ISA continues...
Ali headed into the attic and chucked down all the old, thankfully, empty cases...
And passed down the two parts of my Dad's mum's old camp bed thing...
A few laughs were had a long the way as bag after black bag of "Charity" and "Dump" items accrued...
The boys had a few wee things they wanted to take away...
Including, for Dougie, erm, an old Xmas Tree....
After the rest of the family had gone and "Staz", Ali's Lithuanian chum had popped by in his van to take away the sacks of "Dump" and the bed parts and cases, I took some time to look through more photos...
These were inside six Butlins "viewer things" from, probably, 1975-1977 or so...
Sheila & Pam...
Pam...
Pam and Gran'ma...
Gran'ma...
Gran'ma and mum...
My mum and me, oblivious as usual...
By chance, I noted the address on the side of this box...
I'd never known where exactly I lived for the first 6 months or so of my life..
But, here it is, today, per Google Earth...
...and, again, seemingly by chance, here are some pictures - taken at that very house - and also only seen by me today for the first time...
Me, aged 3 months (approx) - according to my mum's note on the back of one of this collection...
With Sheila, aged 3 and a half...
Sheila with our neighbours...
Sheila and the wee girl were friends...
Yep, it's the same house, No 38 Kilpatrick Gardens, Clarkston...
Dad, at 29 with his son...
...and his son and daughter...
...and son and daughter (looking a wee bit cold) and wife...
And then, some pics from Paisley, on Newtyle Road...
Pam at 4 months, me aged 4, Sheila 7 and a half...
The light stripe is on the pic, sadly...
Classic "cutting off of the true subject of the pic" time...
Mum and dad, pre the kids - in their tennis days...
More of Pam...
...or, as we called her, monkey face...
In Paisley still, a few years later - I'd started school...
Shenanigans!
Later school pics, post us moving to Loanhead...
Holidays in the late 60s and early 70's, with Granma...
Sheila, with Elaine and Lesley Murray and their lovely dog - neighbours in Loanhead - mum and dad's house in the background, behind the sapling...
In the mid 70's, we took a trip to Gloucester and Bourton on the Water and the Cotswolds, to visit mum's Aunt Betty & Uncle David - where I purchased Sparks' "Kimono My House" and "Propaganda"...
I think these were taken in the late 60s though - so I'm probably a bit mixed up on matters...
Mum and Pam with Tufty the Guinea Pig, 1975 or 76...
Pam, at Butlins, on horseback, ok donkeyback...
...and in a carriage as the Gala Day Queen in 1975...
Around the same time, here's Mum sunbathing in Janette's garden - I remember that chair well...
And then, mum and dad's Silver Wedding in 1980...
Mum and dad with the Jardines, Edith and Mum met at primary school in 1938...
David Whitley and Ian Cowan, our neighbours either side in Loanhead - and Pat Telford from a nearby cul-de-sac...
Diane Cowan, Ronnie Telford and Janette Whitley...
David and Janette...
Took this to try and work out what the celebration was, to no avail, but Robert Jardine was able to fill in a few blanks, just by seeing the pic of his mum and dad...
...and here is Robert, with his parents and my mum, in 1981...
Another trip, without the kids this time, to meet up with Betty & David...
These, going by the "W" reg car, were taken around 1982 or so...
Betty was my mum's dad, Bob's, sister...
And, here, mum with her Aunt Elsie, wife of Uncle Bill...
She was a glamourous lady in her time - from that Germany...
Ah, here's Uncle Bill...
Those were taken in Southport...
Around the same time, a couple of Sheila with Andrew Senior...
...and our dad...
Dad was a member of an amateur operatic company - he took some backstage shots, this featuring David Whitley on the left...
Ah the old days...
I brought home all mum's jewelry, which Anne, Sheila, with the help of Jane and her Jeweler's Eyeglass, will go through at some point next week...
I get the feeling sorting everything out is going to take a while...
A "Sister Boniface" and some emptying of all music from my phone and then partially re-filling it with 100 "good" LPs from each of 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 took up most of the rest of the evening...
Along with initial prep for what will become Cloudland Blue Quartet's "GLAM! III" next April...
Highlight of the Day : Old photos...
Today's New Music:-
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