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Up early as, as is often the case, once I awoke, my head was so full of stuff, there was no going back to sleep...
The earliness afforded good skies...
The beast was about its business pre 5 am...
Wrote this up and generally mucked about (i.e. I have no idea what I did for around 3 hours)...
Anne up - breakfast - then out to her Zumba with Lynn...
Soundtracked by the last 750 acquisitions on shuffleplay (hence the huge playlist above), the cyberman was off down the hill for a bus into town...
...alighting at Shandwick Place...
To Fopp to check out their equipment for Saturday - we will use their small PA...
Bought a trio of CDs by Jacques Brel, Brigitte Bardot and Morrissey, which I really, really didn't need (see below)...
Then, along to the cathedral for the first of two concerts...
I arrived bang on 11 for John Brydon on piano and Michael Kevin Jones on Cello - pieces by Vivaldi, Rachmaninov and Bruch...
Lovely stuff...
It was held up slightly by the fact that a poor wee old lady had fallen over and cracked her head...
While Vivaldi was played, ambulance people attended to her. Nothing too serious but not the best - she was wheeled out in a chair but looked reasonably ok, apart from the gash in her forehead...
On exiting post the recital, the ambulance was still outside the cathedral...
To Boots for lunch and to Omar Khayyam to book a lunch on Monday for me Anne and chums Christine and Gina...
Back to the cathedral for a solo recital from cellist Christine Hurley...
Pieces by Dall'Abaca, JS Bach and a world premiere of "Ceum thar n a mara" ("Step out over the sea"), written for her by composer, Peter McCarthy...
Notwithstanding some tuning issues, a nice recital all round...
And out - this is the first of several of these events I'm intending to attend over the next couple of weeks...
Out and along to Dalry, where a Hildegard von Bingen CD was picked up for a quid...
Then along to Roseburn...
...to meet up with Anne for a visit with her mum...
Some nice pics...
Of course the reality is slightly different but, as long as we remain mainly in the present, it's not too bad...
Back home and good flowers in the garden recorded...
To ripping and listening...
This is interesting - a disc of Brel and a disc of his songs being covered by French and Belgian stars of the late 50's/early 60's...
This, however, was extremely disappointing...
While I was never a huge fan of The Smiths, I've always been partial to Mr Morrissey's solo work - notwithstanding his, shall we say, "personal waywardness"...
...and this is lovely, of course...
...as was Anne's prawn pasta tea...
...followed by stewed apples and custard, scoffed pre pic...
On telly tonight, Kevin Bridges in Cork in 2023 - superb - Madam Blanc Mysteries - dreadful but, you know, ok nonsense...
And a "Cold Case" - up to the usual standards - episode, I think, 17 of, I think, around 150...
To bed just after 11...
Highlight of the Day : Recitals...
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