Playing the comps and a tasty tea can soften the router blows...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! III (Demo Version)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! FOUR (Demo Version)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM!

Cloudland Blue Quartet - GLAM! #2

David Bailis - Tree of Life (EP)

Alden Hellmuth - Good Intentions

Darius Jones - Legend of e'Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Live Suite 2024/25 No3 Red Red Red Blue

Greg Lake - Live

junklight - Last Light

Wendy Eisenberg - Viewfinder

Various Artists - Disco Discharge: Euro Disco

Various Artists - Divine Music Centre • Volume 16

Various Artists - The Divine Music Centre Vol 15

Various Artists - Across The Universe OST

Various Artists - Africa Rising

Afrocubism - Afrocubism

Various Artists - The Age of Atlantic

Various Artists - All The Young Dudes

Various Artists - All This And World War II ( The Original Movie Soundtrack )

Various Artists - All You Need Is Love

Various Artists - The Rock 'n' Roll Scene

Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2024

Various Artists - Intrigue : Steven Wilson Presents

Various Artists - Escola Massana

Various Artists - Archives 2023

Various Artists - Aquarius Rock

Various Artists - Eins und Zwei und Drei und Vier Vol 2 - Deutsche Experimentelle Pop-Musik 1978 - 1987

Various Artists - Synthesizer Classics

Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records presents DISCO REGGAE ROCKERS

Various Artists - Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen

Various Artists - Buried Treasure 70s

Various Artists - Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz in Belgium 1968-1979

Various Artists - The Low End Effect Sources

Various Artists - Italians Do It Better

Various Artists - American Velvet: A Tribute To The Velvet Underground (10th Anniversary Edition)

Various Artists - 100 Songs 70s Groove

Various Artists - Deciphering the Message: The Originals

Various Artists - Solstice Sounds Project December 2015

Various Artists - Heavy Soul Vol. 2

Various Artists - Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vol 4

Various Artists - Blue Note Re:Imagined

Various Artists - Down In Jamaica: 40 Years Of VP Records

Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records presents SPACE FUNK - Afro-Futurist Electro Funk in Space 1976-84

Various Artists - Let It Be Revisited

Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records presents Bunny Lee: Dreads Enter the Gates with Praise – The Mighty Striker Shoots the Hits!

Various Artists - The Old Grey Whistle Test - Jetboys and Ladytrons

Various Artists - 101 Acoustic

Various Artists - Yardie (OST)

Various Artists - Glitterbox - Pump The Boogie

Various Artists - Countryfile The Album

Various Artists - 101 Stax

Various Artists - 101 Drivetime

Various Artists - Cool Heat (The Best Of CTI Records)

Various Artists - Botchit Breaks 2

Various Artists - The Annual 2018 (Ministry of Sound)

Various Artists - Function Underground: The Black and Brown American Rock Sound 1969-1974

Various Artists - The Big Payback

Various Artists - 100 Hits: Children's Favourites

Various Artists - Silver Apples and Strawberrry Fields (28 Lost Tracks from the British Psychedelia)

Various Artists - Milano Jukebox 2016

Various Artists - The Man Who Fell To Earth

Various Artists - Rockabilly : Red Hot & Rare Volume One

Various Artists - Family Affair Chapter Two

Various Artists - DavidHeroesBowie

Various Artists - Keep Calm and Salute the Beatles

Various Artists - Funk Fever

Various Artists - Black Fire! New Spirits! Radical & Revolutionary Jazz in the USA 1957-1982

Terrence McManus - Music for Chamber Trio

Up to find that Americans (or just over 50% of them) re bat-shit crazy - but then I kinda knew that already...

Much wringing of hands around the world but nothing we can do except try to make the best of an absolutely awful, evil job...

Anyway...

It was, as almost ever, early...

Writing this up for the weekend - or was that yesterday? Yes, probably did that yesterday...

Today, listening to my four volumes of homemade Glam! first thing...

Then, a couple of the tasty jazz things downloaded last night...

Breakfast...

Anne was getting ready for Zumba with Lynn as I set off down the hill with my "big" headphones on, listening to another jazz album from this morning's haul - Darius Jones - new to me and top...

I was quite a bit of the way down the hill when I realised I'd come the wrong way...

Not to worry...

Scenes...

Meanwhile, our router was in London!!

Rolls and a TV magazine secured, chazzas visited (no purchases), and back home...

The CityFibre boys have made a better job of getting their signal into our house...

...than whoever did this to the twins' house...

More "Continuum" being watched...

Anne returned...

Our router was going to be delivered shortly - to where exactly, remained a mystery...

...as it was still in that London...

Another hour on the phone to TalkTalk asking that a third router be sent out (the one supposedly ordered yesterday has not yet been actioned) and that it be ensured it is sent quickly and to the correct address...

The postie arrived and provided a printout of our parcel's details...

The house number was correct...

The city was correct...

The Postcode was correct...

But the street was shown as "Montagu Road" - there is no such street in Edinburgh - but, on googling this, I found there is one in London N18...

So - TalkTalk erred re the address and, frankly, why did Royal Mail make the error of judgment when faced with an obvious address error, to send a parcel with Edinburgh as the location and an Edinburgh postcode on it, to London?

Anyway, now a long wait for a call back from Syed from TalkTalk's complaints department...

Into the garden...

...for Anne to get some vegetation off of the garage roof...

At four, word from Royal Mail, trumpeting their delivery of our router to an address four hundred miles away...

Nice picture...

In contrast, three items ordered from Amazon yesterday - a new Cat Diary, a pocket diary for Anne and adapters for me re Whitby, were all delivered perfectly as predicted...

I had the idea to try and get in touch with the people at Montagu Road - I could see they've lived there since 1988 but could not find a phone number...

But, on the map, there was a hairdresser a few yards from the house in question...

I called - a lady answered - I tried to explain but she couldn't understand me and just kept saying she'd not received a parcel and that she had "people in her chairs"...

I let her go...

Shortly afterwards, a call from Syed - he had put in a manual order for an expedited router delivery which he hoped would arrive tomorrow or Friday...

This was the best they could do really but, as I write this at 8am tomorrow, I have no e-mail re the new delivery...

Fuck and, indeed, sake...

Anyway...

Anne had once again excelled herself in the tea stakes, with marinated chicken, vegetables and lovely, lovely potatoes...

...all of which softened the router blows...

Anne enjoyed "Portrait Artist of the Year" while I retired upstairs and decided to play this...

...which took me back to this here diary, trying to find where I bought it - Bad Reichenhall I think - no Traunstein - on our way from Konigsee to Erding - it happened on one of those picture only days, at the end of our Bavarian trip in September 2020...

Here it is...

Hmmm, already four years since were were last at Konigsee...

Anyway, then I decided to play a few tracks from my collection of collections...

Started with this...

...and a few more, before, inevitably, returning to the computer for ease of accessing the music...

From 8:45 till midnight, these 54 beauties were indeed accessed - one track each...

...which made for a very enjoyable and relaxing evening...

But, you know, I predict no router tomorrow...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Playing the comps...

Today's New Music:-