Sunday, August 31, 2025

Without and ice and the end of the summer...

Playlist


The end of summer, August away...


My mum's birthday, for the first time, without my mum...


Up pre 7



Onwards...

Had the idea to make a playlist of things not listened to since the last quarter of 2013, when I instigated iTunes...

Of course that crashed Apple Music...

Listening to a new Swedish composer, recommended by Classical Critic...

Breakfast...


Anne to Pickleball...

Doing some shelf swapping...





...re these back bits, which make the boxes of CDs stick out...


Rehearsing "Keepsake"...

Deciding to add a track from "Dark" to the close of the set...

Listening to the new ending...

Lo, it is good...

Finishing off the shelf swap...


Done...


Listening to "Dark"...

Listening to "Low Peach Winter Sun"...


Waiting for Anne to return...


Today, she enjoyed her 1st win in a team with Lynn since they started...

Red letter...

Unpacked shopping...

Lunch...


"Cold Case"...

Looked through all the pics from our Toronto trip of 10 years ago - we set off for Canada 10 years ago today...

Created playlists of the CDs purchased on our Canadian trips of 2008 and 2015...

Played Jackie McLean and Loscil from the 2015 trip...

At 3:30, out to Murrayfield for an Ice Hockey match, Edinburgh Capitals v Paisley Pirates...


The Zamboni was sorting out the ice...



Out came Paisley...


Out came Edinburgh...



A minute's silence for an ex-Edinburgh player who passed recently, at just 45...


Bully off, or whatever it's called...

Less than 3 minutes in, 1-0 to Edinburgh...


The sin bin saw some early action too...



1-0 at the end of the first of three 20 minute periods (with 15 minute breaks between them)...


Out for Period 2...


This time, it took just over 15 minutes for Edinburgh to make it 2-0...



...where it remained at the end of the 2nd period...


Drinks were secured...


At the start of period 3 it was Paisley's turn to score within 3 minutes of the start...



...but, fewer than 30 seconds later, Edinburgh pulled away again...



It stayed at 3-1 for a good while...

...a while which included goalmouth incidents...



..and a standup (and fall down) fight in Edinburgh's goal...



Sin bin required again...


With just under 3 minutes to go, Edinburgh scored a 4th...




...then, a fifth with 1:40 left of the clock...




...and...



...a sixth, with 14 seconds to go...




Paisley's keeper was rather annoyed and tried to destroy his goal...


A very good way to spend a late Sunday afternoon (watching ice hockey, not trying to destroy your goal after letting three in in quick succession)...

All over...


Full time 6-1...


Home and fish n chips for tea - with the highlights of a dreary 0-0 between The Rangers (2012) and Glasgow Celtic...


A "Cold Case" and two episodes of "Friday Night Dinner", taking us into series 3 already...

Then, dishes and downloading...

...and music listening re this week's podcast...

End of the weekend once more...

And end of a month...

Into Autumn...

Happy birthday mum!

Highlight of the Day: Ice hockey...

Today's New Music: