Just a shadow on a fence...

Playlist
Wishbone Ash - Elegant Stealth
White Denim - D
Various Composers - The Italian Connection
Brian Eno - Apollo
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Roy Orbison - The Essential
Sarasate - Violin Sonatas
Various - Trojan Foundation Dub
Neal Morse - Momentum
Grieg - Chamber Music
Oliver Nelson - Screamin' the Blues
Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
Laura Pausini - Le Cose de Vivi
Various - Superbad
Spirit of Science - Spirit of Science
Various - The Freakbeat Scene
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
Def Leppard - Yeah!
Cliff Eberhardt - Borders
The Temptations - All Directions
Average White Band - The Very Best of AWB
Anywhen - The Opiates
Various - 101 Pirate Radio Hits
John Surman - Glancing Backwards
The Czars - The Ugly People v The Beautiful People
Spooky Tooth - Best of
Various Composers - 100 Best 20th Century
After Crying - Fold Es Eg
Chris Botti - To Love Again (The Duets)
Citizen Cain - Serpents In Camouflage
Mogul Thrash - Mogul Thrash
Ali Akbar Khan - The 80 Minute Raga

Up reasonably early and a walk to the store for provisions...

A frosty, sky blue sky morning...

..and the moon was up...

Neighbours were walking their dogs...

Something was afoot...

The leaves had fallen...

The sun shone through fences...

Something was a foot...

OK I've run out of captions...

A crow was captured mid take-off...

...and the hub and shop was finally approached...

Shopping was done and the beast was about its business...

...looking particularly old today...

Up the hill...

Into the sun...

Fallen vegetation was pictured...

As were trees with the sun behind them...

...and new builds beneath the morning moon...

The dead leaves had a certain beauty about them...

...as did those still on the trees...

Something was a foot...

More leaves...

Something was afoot...

The tree close to the house...

The green close to the house...

..and back home...

Post breakfast, round to Dr Prog's to pick him up and bring him back to Crispycat Towers...

...where music was enjoyed...

...as was the chat and sustenance courtesy of the Exec Producer...

Meg the Black Cat got in on the action as usual...

The soundtrack to the afternoon...

The Doc walked home and we visited my mum...

In the evening, some telly...

Turned out nothing was afoot...

Just a shadow on a fence...

Highlight of the day : A visit from Dr Prog...

A distinct lack of jam, for a wee change...

Playlist
Various - Last 1,000 Acquisitions on Shufflelplay
Various - 650 Albums on Shuffleplay
Paul McCartney - Tug of War
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Back to Front
Soft Cell - The Hits
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Roxy Music - Flesh & Blood

Up just after seven...

Integrating a goodly number of CDs, relegated upstairs from the shelf in the living room over the past few weeks as the acquisitions have rolled in...

Around two hours doing this...

This is how I waste my time...

Out into the garden around 9:40...

...and drove to Roseburn...

...where we enjoyed an initial coffee and some chat before setting off on the walk along the water of Leith...

...past the still face down in the river Gormley statue...

...to Stockbridge...

...and a late breakfast at Patisserie Florentin...

At nearby Voxbox, I finally managed to redeem a credit note received six months ago re some LPs traded in...

I was reduced to taking discs by Paul McCartney and, the now rehabilitated, Gilbert O'Sullivan - once in a band with Supertramp's Rick Davies, who taught him to play piano...

There are a couple of pretty good tracks on each album - a good wordsmith I grudgingly admit...

He was the top selling artist of 1972 in the UK - I would have thought T Rex, Slade or Gary Glitter might have outsold him...

A two disc set by Soft Cell, which includes, of the 28 songs in the collection, 15 which I don't already have on other compilations by the duo, rounded things off at Voxbox...

Then, further down into Stockbridge and a disc of minimalism from the Shelter shop joined the fray...

Back along the river...

What's this?

Well, I do believe it's...

...the Stockbridge Heron...

Back the way we came...

...complete with a swan...

...and another delightful beastie...

...and, almost exactly three hours after parking, we were back at the car...

At home, nice bread from the deli in Stockbridge sustained, while I listened to McCartney and O'Sullivan and we enjoyed the footie results...

After beating reasonably local rivals Starnraer and with Brodski's Alloa overcoming second top Forfar, Queens are now six points clear at the top of Division 2...

Meanwhile Brodski's "other" team, "The Rangers FC" had none of the jam from last week and lost to this morning's bottom team in Division 3 (i.e. the worst team in the Scottish League prior till today), Stirling Albion...

The Sevco fans took great delight a couple of weeks back in saying their team was obviously the best in Scotland, when they defeated the then top team in the SPL, Motherwell, in the League Cup ...

I take it they will realise that, by the same skewed logic, they are now the worst team in Scotland...

Oh dear...

Not quite going according to plan...

In the evening, Anne was out for a meal and a Ghost Tour with chums, leaving me to watch "Teminator : The Sarah Connor Chonicles", a couple of programmes on ELO's Jeff Lynne from last night and to listen to the weekend's haul of music thus far...

Highlight of the day : Queens doing well...

Roxy revamp...

Playlist
Yes - Natural Progression 1969-1979
Yes - In the Present Live in Lyon
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music - Stranded
Roxy Music - Country Life
Roxy Music - Siren
Roxy Music - Manifesto

Another moon-in-morning-sky-blue-sky scenario...



To Fopp at lunchtime and updated my rapidly-turning-bronze Roxy Music collection, originally assembled in the second half of the eighties...

£24 of your English pounds for the eight albums which comprise their studio output...

These versions are said to be better than the just released further revamp...

Spent the evening listening to the first six whilst transferring around 650 albums to my new 32GB stick which arrived yesterday and will reside in the Cloudland Blue mobile...

So, roughly this many CDs...



...are now inside this...

And that was about it...

Highlight of the Day : Roxy revamp...

The moon in a sky blue sky is worth a picture...

Playlist
Enescu - String Quartets
Grechaninov - String Quartets
Schubert - Piano Sonatas
Kurtag - Un Brin de Bruyere
The Ying Quartet - Life Music 2 : United States
Matthew Florianz - The Tone T(h)ree
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Patience

The moon was out this morning, in a sky blue sky...

OK, it's out of shot in this one...

A walk at lunchtime to McAllister Matheson again and two classical discs purchased...

Kurtag cembalon works and modern American music for string quartet...

On the way home, what's this?

Entertaining squirrels, that's what...

Some listening to the new music and a tasty Chinese, having foregone any sustenance at lunchtime...

Some TV tonight but I forget what...

No, wait, the new "from the team that brought you "Spooks"" thriller, "Hunted" - very good indeed - and the new series of "Red Dwarf" - ditto...

OK not the busiest of days...

Highlight of the Day : Browsing in a classical music shop and "Hunted" - and "Red Dwarf"...

Trying not to move the goalposts...

Playlist

Uriah Heep – Celebration

Uriah Heep – Extended and Alternate Mixes 1970-76

Allan Holdsworth – Hard Hat Area

Allan Holdsworth – Heavy Machinery

Another reasonable day but with very little to report...

An enjoyable early evening visit to Tynecastle to join my overweight colleagues for week three of Football Fans in Training (FFIT)...

Back home, brought this up to date whilst enjoying some Allan Holdsworth...

That's it...

Apart from, in the last week, I have walked 25 miles...

In the coming week, I will walk farther...

Highlight of the Day : A reasonable amount of anti-fatness inspiration...

From myTunes to iTunes...

Playlist

Weather Report - Weather Report (1971)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame

Weather Report - I Sing the Body Electric

Return to Forever - Return to Forever

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

Return to Forever - Light as a Feather

Weather Report - Sweetnighter

Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions

Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller

Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse

Weather Report - Tale Spinnin'

Return to Forever - No Mystery

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Weather Report - Black Market

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Return to Forever - Musicmagic

Weather Report - Mr. Gone

Weather Report - Night Passage

Weather Report - Weather Report (1982)

Weather Report - Procession

Weather Report - Domino Theory

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Mahavishnu

Weather Report - Sportin' Life

Weather Report - This is This!

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Adventures in Radioland

Various – My First Chart (Jan’73)

Various – 200 Favourite Artists

Continued the jazz listening today but concentrated totally on Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Return to Forever...

A reasonable day weather-wise...

To brother-in-law Bobby's early evening to assist with putting some of myTunes onto his iTunes...

Then, with Anne out country dancing, watched a bit of Van der Graaf Generator before bringing my CD lists up to date...

On Anne's return, "Person of Interest" was enjoyed...

A day without the net thanks to TalkTalk's nonsense...

Not the band - they were very good indeed...

Highlight of the Day : Top notch jazz rock in the cans...

Accidental jazz listening...

Playlist

Various – Jazz Jukebox on Shuffleplay

Acoustic Ladyland – Last Chance Disco

Return to Forever – Where Have I Seen You Before

Weather Report - Weather Report (1971)

Mahavishnu Orchestra – Between Nothingness & Eternity

Weather Report – Weather Report (1982)

Accidentally picked up the "wrong" jukebox this morning as I headed out the door...

As a consequence, I spent the day listening to jazz - which is no bad thing...

On the way down the road, rainbows entertained...

...while, on the way back in the early evening, a Meg the Black Cat impersonator was spotted...

Later on, with Anne out at Zumba, having noticed during the day a distinct lack of Mahavishnu Orchestra on the Jazz Jukebox, I set about rectifying matters...

I ended up filling the gaps in the discographies of the three main protagonists of jazz fusion by downloading nine late period albums (1977-1986) by the aforementioned Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report and Return to Forever...

All three studio collections now complete...

Now that's what I call music...

Tasty...

Highlight of the Day : Accidental jazz listening...