Downhill most of the way...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Luxury
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Apples
Haydn – Symphonies in G Major
David Guetta - Poplife
Terje Rypdal – Vossabrigg Op. 84
Sonny Rollins - Worktime
Eric Dolphy - Far Cry

A mile to the zoo again this morning...

Here’s how it looked...















































Box Set delivery at lunchtime...

A nip to FOPP but again no purchases...

More donations for "Starlightnight" to the Just Giving site - including another Complete 11CD Box Set...

Almost £500 raised in a week (including Gift Aid that is)...

An alternative mile on the way home...

An excellent chicken pasta tea from Anne, then a drive to the Post Office to pick up another batch of blank CDs...

Three more orders done and ready for posting tomorrow...

Then episode two of the very entertaining “Vexed”...

Then getting this up to date again...

Highlight of the Day : More orders - £500 in sight...

Scorching and posting...

Playlist
Various – Last 15 Months’ Rock & Pop on Shuffleplay
Bryan Adams - Anthology
Jack Bruce – Songs For A Tailor
Chris Lyons – The Ill Tempered Klavier

A scorcher...





To the dentist first thing...

Arrived late due to the tram works...

Then the dentist’s super electric chair (not that kind of electric chair) wasn’t working, so I was let go with the promise of a further appointment...

Still scorching...



First day of a new and hopefully successful regime...

Past the cathedral to post CDs at lunchtime...







In the evening...



...time off from CD production and some TV enjoyed – “CSI”, “Two Broke Girls” and “New Girl”...

Tired though and to bed reasonably early...

Highlight of the Day : New regime...

Eat, fast and live longer...

Playlist
Various – Last 15 Months’ Rock & Pop on Shuffleplay
Gwilym Simcock – Good Days at Schloss Elmau
The Orb featuring David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres
Radiohead – The King of Limbs
CBQ - Juxtaposition
Norman Lamont – Anywhere But Here
Various – Where the Action Is

Soaked this morning as I decided to take a new (longer) one mile route down the hill...

A walk to FOPP at lunchtime and back added another mile and a half to the total...

Nothing purchased...

In the evening, alighted at the zoo and made the return (longer) one mile journey up the rather steep hill to Crispycat Towers...

Tonight’s “Horizon” was another very interesting programme on health by Dr Michael Mosley...



...“Eat, Fast and Live Longer” in which he looked into the benefits of fasting, discovering that a four day fast reduced his IGF (Growth Factor re ageing) by 50%...

Fasting for four days at a time proved too much for him though...

He then found that fasting on alternate days (but fasting this time meant one meal of 500 calories) had the same kind of effect...

This reduced drastically his chances of developing ageing diseases like cancer...

In the end he plumped for the 5-2 plan – fasting for two days out of every seven...

After five weeks he’d lost a stone, his body fat was down by around a third and all his other crucial numbers were considerably reduced...

Food for thought...

Late on, just as I headed to bed, a neon cat was to be found in the back room...



Highlight of the Day : More from Mosely...

Sometimes sound stops...

Playlist
Ali Akbar Khan – 80 Minute Raga
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Events
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Starlightnight
The Bad Plus – Stravinsky On Sacred Ground
Holly Miranda – The Magician’s Private Library
The Revolutionaries – Outlaw Dub
The Revolutionaries – Green Bay Dub
Various – Beginner’s Guide to African Funk
Various – 80 Minute Mix of Greatness for Brodski
The Bad Plus - New Year in New York

My 2,850th post...

Idiot!

Up late (8:30) to find more orders and that I was now over 30 CDs behind on the old production line front...

67 CDs and 3 mugs to get sorted...

To work – post a visit to the store for bread – breakfast whilst working...









By 1:30 I was up to date and ready to do some deliveries...

Ended up at mum’s in Loanhead with sister Sheila’s pack - we listened and my family found it to be good...



Home around 3:45 after another delivery...

At 4:30, bang on time, Impossible Songs’ John and Ali arrived for some good chat, some wine and some expertly prepared dinner from the Exec Producer, based around some of the best Sea Bass I’ve tasted...

J & A too received fulfilment of their order...



Ali has a book of poetry and photos out - "Sometimes Sound Stops" – top stuff...

A recent Med trip on a schooner was relived and looked spectacular fun...

At 9, it was time for J& A to make their way home...

At 10, after prepping for five days of this, footie highlights with Annie before hitting the sack reasonably early with a non-red wine intake induced headache...

Highlight of the Day : Visit from John and Ali - always great chat!

Nuptuals a plenty...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Starlightnight
Bryan Adams – An Anthology
Various – Where The Action is : LA Nuggets 1965-68
Andrew Hill – Mosaic Select

Up early and delivering CDs...

Breakfast at Florentine with Anne...





A Bryan Adams anthology from the Capability shop...

More delivering...

To the library to meet with Dr Prog...



Stuff borrowed included Sigur Ros, Radiohead, Gwilym Simcock, The Orb and a collection of music from LA in the mid sixties...

Lunch and chat with the Doc...

Home for a quick turnaround to Tynecastle to see Hearts beat St Johnstomne 2-0 in the first game of the season...



In Dumfries, Queen of the South scored three goals in the last seven minutes to put Count Brodski’s Alloa out of the League Cup 5-2...

Home for a quick turnaround to The Balmoral for the reception of chum Kris-with-a-K’s wedding to Monica which took place this afternoon at St Mary's RC Cathedral...

Also in attendance, Debbie, Spike, Bernardo and Baz...



The groom of course, being held up by Spike as Debbie looked on...



Your correspondent, pinkie strategically aloft...



The dolled up to the nines all day guests...



Kevin, Kathryn, Spike, JY Johnny and the lovely bride...



The groom of course, now doing press ups on the dance floor...



The Exec Producer, looking very lovely indeed with Spike and Debbie...



Kevin and Kathryn again...



The groom, giving us the thumbs up about something or other...



Caroline, pregnant with second child, chatting with KJT...



Frances, flanked by husband JY Johnny and Debbie, while Spike texted an absent Wheelers re how great Hearts are and how rubbish Hibs are...



The bride's parents...



..and the happy couple...



...raised aloft by their chums...



A good time was had by all...

Out for the bus at midnight, witnessing the Tattoo Fireworks...



Over an hour later, finally back home via a tardy bus...



A busy, enjoyable day...

Highlight of the Day : Seeing my wee chum Kris-with-a-K starting out on a new life...

The pink room is (not) empty...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet – Patience
Genesis – 1970-1975 Box Set
Arnold – Symphony No 1
Various – Balance : 3 SOS
Skrillex – Bangarang EP
The Tubes –Young and Rich

Third day into the campaign and numbers picking up...

Perhaps our curtains are too pink?



Looked like it would be a scorcher...





...but it came to nothing...

A nice lunch with Anne at Pizza Express...

In the evening more order fulfilment plus some Skrillex from the interweb...

And ensuring all was fine re returning the early 70s Genesis box to the library tomorrow...

Highlight of the Day : Lunch with Annie...

Eleven and a mug...

Playlist
King Crimson – Lizard
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
King Crimson – Red

First order for the full 11CD plus mug Box Set...





Again, much of the night spent putting together orders...

To bed well past midnight after a day spent burning, printing, cutting out and sticking down ...

Highlight of the Day : More orders...

For a good cause...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet –Starlightnight
Various – Last 15 Months of Jazz on Shuffleplay
Happy Apple – Part of the Solution Problem

Short entries for the next few days as time is tight...

A reasonable day...

 

...saw the new album released in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support...

A computer glitch meant I sent out four copies of the e-mail re the release to everyone on the Crispycat mailing list...

Not the most auspicious start to the campaign...

Much of the day spent updating websites and doing work to fulfil orders...







Off to a good start...

Highlight of the Day : First donation within 30 minutes...