Luna is back...

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Up just after 6...

...and last day of August...

...which would have been my mum's 96th birthday - almost two years gone now - it's flown by...

Here she is at the swing park with her, then, two children, me as a baby and sister Sheila - sister Pam yet to arrive...

...and August is away too...

All in all it's been a good month - even though I only saw two things out of the thousands of opportunities re the Edinburgh Festival & Fringe...

Pre breakfast, searching through all my pics and posting one from almost each of my mum's birthday's from 2005 to 2024 to the family WhatsApp group...

Then, starting to put together what might be "The Bob Dylan Show" by Capital Models...

Progress today, gaining agreement from the boys in the band on finally finalising plans for us to play at least once a fortnight - no more month or 6 week long breaks...

We will play fortnightly on a Tuesday - unless anyone's unavailable, in which case we'll move to the nearest available Friday, Sunday or Monday...

We need to do this to allow us to work on new projects properly...

Projects in my head are:

Bob Dylan Show
David Bowie Show
Brian Eno Show
Ferry/Roxy Show
Lou & the Velvets Show
Other TBA Single Artist Shows

(All of these would include short sets of the Capital Models' original 1979/80 canon plus a few other covers we all like to play...)

Re-recording all the songs on our "Repertoire" collection not currently fully available (i.e. bonus tracks as they are so rough and (un)ready

Working on new original material by the 2026 quartet

Sets for impromptu open mic nights, with, most probably cahon instead of drum kit

Working on more minimal sets like the one we did at Fopp

Working on a set of CBQ songs

11 projects - maybe the others will have ideas too!

It could be all go...

Anyway...

Breakfast...

...and "work"...

...including downloading loadsa stuff by Bergen born jazz man Kjetil Møster, inspired by old chum, Sid Smith with a BlueSky post...

At 12:30, Gillian arrived with wee Luna for a holiday, while her mum and dad are off to Florida again for a couple of weeks...

She soon settled back in...

Lunch of home made soup and a rye bread chicken sandwich and back to the machines...

Luna spent the afternoon inside our bed, sleeping...

Listened to "Free Live" - don't recall exactly why...

And, then, some Paul Rodgers blues stuff...

Ah wait, no - we watched one episode of "Scandal" before Anne went off to Pilates - and it featured Stevie Wonder's "Living for the City", which prompted me to find versions in my library - which led me to a Slash LP from a couple of years back, on which Paul Rodgers guested on one track...

That led me to Rodgers' 1990's blues album and, from there, I moved on to "Free Live"...

That's how it happens...

Then, looking at the library in alpha order, as opposed to most recent acquisitions first, I saw Adel Tawil and searched for anything new (nothing) which lead me to his duo, Ich & Ich...

And, right next to them, was Icehouse...

Started playing a comp of remixes of their hits...

Found new stuff by them which I didn't already have, while sorting out the tracks on the remix comp...

I've had it for ages sitting with the content just in alpha order...

Pound for pound (or dollar for dollar) one of my fave Australian acts...

Anyway, this is how I waste my time...

Salmon for tea...

Then, sorting out my contacts on my phone - many had been switched to their numbers rather than names - must've been when I moved to the Tesco SIM...

105 on "University Challenge" - most of our answers were bonuses rather than starters, hence the low score...

And, for a change from "Scandal", the last two of "Murder in a Small Town"'s first season pre doing the dishes...

Luna was at home...

All she really wants to do is sleep and encourage us to feed her...

She is also prone to stealing our seats as soon as we move away for any reason...

She will also just flop down on the floor...

...and, erm, sleep...

...which is good as it shows she's fine about being here...

Just before midnight, lights out, as we moved into September...

Highlight of the Day: Luna is back...

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