Outside, inside...

Playlist

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 2014

Spocks Beard - The Oblivion Particle

Sumner McKane - Stone's Throw

Matthew Florianz - Tauern

The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Tame Impala - Currents

Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment

David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock

Ant Law - Zero Sum World

Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Daniel Cavanagh - Memory & Meaning

Dave Gahan - Angels & Ghosts

Neil Young - Monsanto Years

Gavin Harrison - Cheating The Polygraph

Avicii - Stories

Max Richter - from Sleep

Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova

Lonely Robot - Please Come Home

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Leonard Cohen EP

FFS - FFS

Riverside - Shrine Of The New Generation Slaves

Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime

Donna Lewis - Brand New Day

Theo Travis' Double Talk - Transgression

Dutch Uncles - O Shudder

God Is An Astronaut - Helios | Erebus

Muse - Drones

Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak

Symphony X - Underworld

BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

James Whyte - Ship

Matthew Florianz - Nocturne - Soundtrack for Science Briefings

Adele - 25

Marco Minnemann - Celebration

Markus Reuter - Mundo Nuevo

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Nordic Giants - A Seance of Dark Delusions

The Weather Station - Loyalty

Caligula's Horse - Bloom

John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule [feat John Scofield]

Tortoise - The Catastrophist

Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams

Holger Hiller - Oben im Eck

10cc - The Very Best Of 10cc

Mathilde Santing - Matilde Matilde

Silo - Work

Shadow Gallery - Room V

Richard Shindell - Blue Divide

Jane Siberry - Child

David Bowie - Epic David Bowie 1967-2013

Weather Report - Epic Weather Report

Smolik - Smolik 2

Alpha Male Tea Party - Droids

And One - Magnet (Trilogie Edition)

Audible Silence - An Instinctual Response

BADBADNOTGOOD - III

BANKS - Goddess

Bear the Mammoth - Yamadori

Bend Sinister - Animals

Various Composers - Piano Dreams

Out this morning for a walk from the Dean Bridge to Stockbridge...

The Water of Leith was, understandably, swollen and fast running...

The ducks liked it though...

...some trees did not...

Breakfast/brunch in Stockbridge...

I took the opportunity to do a quick pencil sketch...

Not really...

The walk back...

Good light...

Late afternoon, out to Anne's mum's for family tea...

We went early to assist with the preparation...

...and were soon joined by the rest of the family, only Keith was unpictured...

Nephew Olly is now taller than I am...

Niece Kitty remains a loveable monkey...

BAck home for "Strictly" results and some piano music listening re a new box delivered while we were out...

5CDs for £2.18.  Amazing...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Getting outside again...

Inside not outside...

Playlist

Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

Daniel Cavanagh - Memory & Meaning

Hollywood Vampires - Hollywood Vampires

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 2014

The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak

Tame Impala - Currents

Adele - 25

The Weather Station - Loyalty

Teramaze - Her Halo

Creek - Creek 2015

Lonely Robot - Please Come Home

Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams

Spocks Beard - The Oblivion Particle

Tortoise - The Catastrophist

Dutch Uncles - O Shudder

Gavin Harrison - Cheating The Polygraph

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Sumner McKane - Stone's Throw

Max Richter - from Sleep

Subsignal - The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime

Marco Minnemann - Celebration

Matthew Florianz - Tauern

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

Muse - Drones

The Bad Plus/Joshua Redman - The Bad Plus Joshua Redman

Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

David Bowie - A Reality Tour

Nico - Drama of Exile

Mott The Hoople - Mott The Hoople Live

King Crimson - Heavy ConstruKction

Recoil - Liquid

Chris Rea - The Blue Jukebox

Various  - Blue 60s

Various - Shades of Blue : Untinted

Various - Blue York Blue York

Various - Blunited States Coast To Coast

Various - Blue TV: Blue Note Takes A Commercial Break

Lili Drop - Monde Animal

Lili Drop - N

Up not too early today and, outside, Rory Custard spotted in the garden...

...,sheltering from the weather...

Inside, the ripping project continued for much of the day...

...while the weather outside left much to be desired - these the views from the office this morning...

The day was spent inside - soup was concocted...

Anne did however venture out - but not, as expected, to Tyncastle - many games, including those of both Hearts and Queens, were postponed...

And so, coffee and cake were enjoyed as we caught up on more Tivo recordings...

...and watched some cheesy Xmas films on Channel 5...

Our simple decorations were put in place...

...and cards were written...

...and some relaxing was done...

In the evening, soup was enjoyed, as were "Strictly", two further episodes of "The Bridge III" and another excellent story from "Dr Who", with Clara Oswald brought back and released out into the universe in a stolen Tardis and the Doctor's mind wiped of the majority of his memories of her...

Obviously, if you don't watch "Dr Who" that will mean nothing to you - but it completes the circle nicely and explains how Clara appears throughout all the Doctor's timelines over the years - an idea first introduced with her introduction as the Doctor's companion...

If only Steven Moffat could write every script...

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Dr Who...

The last days of recuperation...

Playlist

Gentle Giant - Interview

Journey - The Essential Journey

Elton John - Greatest Hits 1970-2002

Jansen/Barbieri/Karn - Seed

Japan - Souvenir From Japan

James - B-Sides Ultra

Magic Pie - Motions Of Desire

Diviner - Fallen Empires

John Grant - Grey Tickles, Black Pressure

Dave Gahan - Angels & Ghosts

Adele - 25

Avicii - Stories

Bryan Adams - Get Up

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things
Various - 2015 Releases on Shuffleplay

The project to ensure all CDs are ripped continued this morning and later today - over the last three days 125 previosuly absent albums have been added to the digitised collection...

Out briefly this morning...

...to Tesco, where I had a look at some things for my mum...

...and some things for me...

...and came away with some nice new in ear headphones - replacing the recently goosed RHA's...

A horrible wet and windy afternoon was shut out as we caught up on more Tivo'd TV including "Big Bang", "Josh" and "London Spy"  - the latter, latterly, getting into its stride at long last...

Also downloaded some 2015 releases to add to the collection...

A tasty chicken based tea and then on onto the night...

Highlight of the Day : Being warm and cosy indoors...

Phew, what a scorcher, not...

Playlist

Hot Chocolate - 14 Greatest Hits

Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts

Buddy Miles - Best Of Buddy Miles

Gianna Nannini - California
Gentle Giant - Interview

Approaching the end of my recuperation period now- on Sunday it will be five weeks since my release from hospital...

Of course, the pain is unfortunately likely to continue for months as my body gets back to "normal" inside...

But at least I am here and getting better...

Post breakfast and the latest episode of Matt Berry's excellent "Toast", we were off out into town, with me making arrangements for a return to semi-normality, followed by a fruitless trip to Fopp - walking a mile along Princes St to get there...

Meanwhile, Anne was more successful in her quests...

We met up at Fopp and walked back a different but similarly lengthed route to Chimichanga for a very tasty, late Mexican lunch (meaning no need for tea today)...

The San Pellegrino us mine - I have not had any alcohol since our last night in Bordeaux, six weeks ago today...  

This is no bad thing and my weight is at its lowest now for a year - since last December's fall from grace - I am determined not to repeat that this year...

We were the only diners in the restaurant as the rain pelted down outside...

A bus to the top of the hill and wet walk down to Crispycat Towers...

The final three episodes of "River" were enjoyed, as was some other stuff which, 24 hours later, I have forgotten...

The ripping CDs project continued...

A little of "Question Time" was endured before "This Week", on which Jeremy Corbyn's brother, Piers, argumed well that Human Instigated Climate Change and Global Warning are a load of gravy train producing pish...

Many do not see this but, if they really looked at the facts, perhaps they would...

"THE CASE AGAINST MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE IS SIMPLE - IN 3 KEY ARGUMENTS:- 

1. There is no evidence now and there never has been in real world data for CO2 levels controlling world temperatures.  In fact world temperatures are now falling (using accurate satellite data rather than UN fraud data see slide 6 in pdf below**) while CO2 levels are rising. 

** See http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews15no16.pdf

2. Man's CO2 flux in and out of atmosphere is only 4% of total. The idea that this dominates the other very variable 96% is deranged - slides 1+3 of pdf link above 

The fact that termites produce ten times the CO2 equivalent of man means Obama and the Pope would do better at reducing CO2 by declaring WAR ON TERMITES.

Interestingly all Obama's wars hitherto have upset the stability of middle-east oil production to the benefit of USA oil production (the USA is now an energy exporter not net importer).

3. World sea temperatures control CO2 levels under basic laws of physics so over thousands of years sea temperatures (which follow solar activity) LEAD CO2 levels by some hundreds of years, see slides 7+8 in pdf. This is an observed fact. 

In everyday life if you warm a glass of fizzy drink, CO2 comes off and if you cool it then it will absorb more CO2. 

The deranged CO2 theory will have you believe that putting extra CO2 above a glass of drink (or anything) will warm it up. 

Of course this idea is a deranged tail-wagging dog nonsense.  

WeatherAction Challenges any and all to debate!"

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : A lovely lunch...

Out and about...

Playlist

Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere

Joe Satriani - Shockwave Supernova

Donna Lewis - Brand New Day

BADBADNOTGOOD & Ghostface Killah - Sour Soul

Kamasi Washington - The Epic

Creek - Creek 2015

Nordic Giants - A Seance of Dark Delusions

The Winery Dogs - Hot Streak

Tangerine Dream - Sorcerer 2014

Spocks Beard - The Oblivion Particle

Caligula's Horse - Bloom

Neal Morse - The Grand Experiment

Theo Travis' Double Talk - Transgression

Coheed and Cambria - The Color Before The Sun

Sumner McKane - Stone's Throw

Max Richter - from Sleep

Sparks - FFS

Symphony X - Underworld

Tame Impala - Currents

Daniel Cavanagh - Memory & Meaning

God Is An Astronaut - Helios | Erebus

Marco Minnemann - Celebration

Alice Cooper - Hollywood Vampires

Bach Modern Quintet - Bach Modern Quintet

Bach, C P E - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 300 Years

Girls Aloud - Mixed Up

Golden Earring - Moontan (European Version)

Girls Aloud - Chemistry

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited II

Isaac Hayes - The Best Of Isaac Hayes

Japan - Japan for Pam

Madonna - Evita OST

Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet - Requiem For A Dream

Gentle Giant - Interview

Soundtracked this morning by 2015 releases on shuffleplay...

We went out in the wind and rain soundtracked by the latest from Alice Cooper's Hollywood Vampires...

...and brunched at the Piecebox...

The pain was counteracted by...

...the tastiness on offer...

  

On to my mum's for chat but no coffee or lunch required...

 She enjoyed both post our departure...

Back home this finally arrived from New Jersey via Malmo...

Not sure whether to file it under jazz or classical...

In the afternoon, a couple of episodes of "River" were enjoyed...

Anne went to Zumba and I resumed a project which I probably won't ever finish - to ensure all CDs are ripped to a hard drive...

I had previously reached mid F of what are loosely described as "Rock & Pop" (i.e. anything that isn't jazz, classical or reggae) and am now progressing nicely...

On Anne's return, "Masterchef" was enjoyed, along with, later on, "Holby"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Out and about...

Clean, clean...

Playlist

Sumner McKane - Stone's Throw

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Four Last Things

Cloudland Blue Quartet - The Leonard Cohen EP

Sarah Harding - Threads

Girls Aloud - Girls Alone : The Solo Singles

Focus - Golden Oldies

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (2014 Mix)

ProjeKct 1 - ProjeKct 1 Live at the Jazz Cafe Dec 1, 1997

King Crimson - ProjeKct 6 - Time Groove

I really cannot afford to let things slip re writing this up - a couple of days go by and I find it very hard to remember what happened - becauses, most days, nothing happens...

Today, we stayed in for the majority - awaiting delivery of a new washing machine...

Yesterday, I purchased this via Bandcamp and very good it is too - my 8th Sumner McKane title...

You can stream it for free at the Bandcamp link...

Mid afternoon, the awaited machine arrived and it is good...

The majority of the day was spent catching up on stuff on the Tivo box...

Highlight of the Day : New washing machine...