A sextant, the sun, the moon and the stars...

Playlist

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variations on Fripp & Eno's "Evening Star"

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik VIII

OddsFiche - Tel Quel

Cloudland Blue Quartet & Sombre Reptiles - Decades

Out Of/Into - Motion I

Capital Models - The 2011 Reunion Sessions Vol 3 (2011-03-22)

Falco - Live Forever

Moby - Reprise (Remixes)

The Weeknd - After Hours

Peter Tosh - Bush Doctor

Peter Tosh - No Nuclear War

Beck - Midnite Vultures

Diana Ross -  One Woman - The Ultimate Collection

The Replacements - The Complete Studio Albums: 1981-1990

A Troop of Echoes - Infinite Hits 3

Fergus McCreadie - Turas

New music Friday - plus releasing 3 LPs on the Bandcamp - so, acceptable to be up early...

Mum's silver plate has pride of place...

Lights on, let's go...

24 new items downloaded...

Listening back instead though, to my take on "Evening Star" and today's new CBQ LP "Disquietmusik VIII"...

Post breakfast, at 10:30, out...

..soundtracked by chums from Toronto...

Into the office and some admin done re keeping the bacon coming in...

Then, to the solicitor and some chasing done re what we have to do to finalise everything...

Then, to Starbucks to meet up with young chum Gina - this the pic sent with her invite the other day as I forgot to take any during our meet up...

First time I've seen her in a long while and she 's now kind of running the night shift A&E desk at the Royal Infirmary whilst also studying at University to be a paramedic...

Off she went to meet up for lunch with her mum, while I popped into Fopp...

I pictured a few things I might be interested in...

I did not buy this - just as well, as I have it already as a download (two further double sof Kelly Clarkson were recently gifted to Stu Cobley)...

This looked to be a bargain - in fact it was - but, again, just as well I restrained myself as I have all these plus more in a digital box set...

I did, however, take this...

...but not this...

...nor this - although I do have it, and volume 1, now - post searching online on my return home tonight...

I also swithered over some "2 for £7" William S Burroughs titles...

But did not partake...

In all, my haul from Fopp today was...

Falco, Moby and The Weeknd were all already on the hard drives - but for Falco, I like to have the thing, for The Weeknd the CD features a rare cover and, for Moby, the tracklist is different from the digital version...

And, yay, I did not have the Tosh at all...

A bus along to Corstorphine and a quick visit to the St Columba's hospice shop resulted in this...

Why was I never into Beck at the time - his LPs are very good indeed...

...and this...

Can't go wrong here really...

And so to a meet up with Bernie at The White Lady for drinks and chat - second ex-colleague meet of the day...

I bemoaned my fat finger typing skills...

The drinks were cheap...

...and they were flowing...

We were soon joined by Annie for a sparkling water - she'd been at the Xmas Fair at her mum's home this afternoon...

This secured...

Purrfect indeed...

Around 5:30, Bernie headed off into the night - but only after we'd gleaned some info from him on his early days as a merchant seaman, a navigator no less - in the days before GPS, when a sextant, the sun, the moon and the stars were all the ships had to go on - he worked on tankers, sailing the world...

Top...

To Wongs and, on timing it, I found it there were just 4 minutes between our order being placed and it being handed to us...

Home for sustenance...

...followed by some ripping and listening...

The Beck sent me down a Roger Joseph Manning Jnr (co-founder of Jellyfish and collaborator with Beck) rabbit hole, downloading 8n solo and further other project LPs from his back catalogue...

On telly tonight, Gina's Xmas gift of Ferrero Rochers accompanied the Aussie version of "Death in Paradise" ("Return to Paradise" I think?) along with have I got news for you...

Onesies were de rigeur this evening...

Later more listening and, last thing, for #CDFriday on the BlueSky, I posted this week's acquisitions...

Bed at midnight...

Highlight of the Day : Meet up with a top wee chum...

Today's New Music:-