Hanging around...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2020 Vol 14

Reeves Gabrels - The Sacred Squall Of Now

Ghost - In Stormy Nights

Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner

Trey Gunn and Marco Minnemann - Modulator

Greg Haines - Where We Were

Peter Hansen - Trajectories

Maximilian Hecker - Infinite Love Songs

Sierra Hull - Daybreak

Miles Davis - Live in Copenhagen 1969

Cloudland Blue Quartet - 4th May, 2019
Ter Veldhuis - There Must Be Some Way Out of Here - 3 String Quartets
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Riverleaves

Another day at home...

At least I'm able to keep this up to date...

Tasty breakfast...

I poached my eggs myself from scratch and as pleased with the outcome...

WFH...

Today's listening brought to me by the letters G...

...and H...

...in the main...

Lunch was a sandwich of ham, cheese, apple and coriander...

Nice...

Late afternoon, an excellent 15 minute ballet from Nederlands Dans Theater...

...which led me to download string quartets by Jacob ter Veldhuis, by who I already have some poano music...

A Whatsapp video chat with Olly, Kitty and Bob was a nice distraction...

Fishcake for tea - plus some healthy chips - and the ubiquitous beans - and some ketchup...

Tasted much better than it looks...

Late on, a visit from Fang but, tonight, rather than just scoffing the goodie drops...

...he decided to hang around and keep us company...

Nice Fang...

Other than that, the most surreal episode ever of "Have I Got News For You" did not work for us.  "London Kills" concluded with two episodes...

To bed...

Highlight of the Day : Fang hanging around for a change...

Brought to you by the letters E and F...

Playlist

Earth - Living In The Gleam Of An Unsheathed Sword

Efterklang - Altid Sammen

Joe Elliott's Down 'n' Outz - My Re-Generation

Roger Eno/Plumbline - Transparencies

B Fleischmann - I'm Not Ready For the Grave Yet

Thomas Fehlmann - Good Fridge. Flowing: Ninezeronineight

Christopher Franke - Klemania

Matthew Friedberger - Winter Women / Holy Ghost Language School

Up reasonably early...

Today's views...

Front...

Back...

Teddy is yet to see any wee children out walking...

...and so, to protect himself from the sun, he went back to the shelf under the artworks...

Today's listening was brought to me by the letter E... 

...and the letter F...

An early coffee pre Anne emerging from the Land of Nod...

Later, post Anne emerging from the Land of Nod, breakfast today was Weetabix and banana and lashings of coffee...

A Whatsapp from chum Jorg in Germany, who had a heart attack a few months ago - he advised things had gotten worse and, of course with the virus, he is particularly at risk...

So we video Whatsapp'd him for a wee chat which we hope may have cheered him a little bit...

He is due a catheter investigation of his heart valves next week, despite everything else that's going on...

Jeez...

Then WFH goddammit..

Lunch...

...with a "Goldbergs"...

...then WFH goddammit...

Just after 6, we went for a walk up on Crispycat Hill...

Freezing but lovely...

Then, home for tea - a very tasty veggie pasta from Anne - the broccoli was particularly good...

An evening spent both watching (or trying to watch) TV and tuning the Tivo box - four or five attempts to stop certain channels from freezing - eventually sorted...

"London Kills", "Brooklyn Nine Nine" both enjoyed along with new show, "Maxxx"...

Lights out...

Highlight of the Day : Out for a walk...

Not going out, except for food...

Playlist

Morrissey - I Am Not a Dog on a Chain

Various Artists - The Art of Jazz : 1959 Jazz's Greatest Year

Return To Forever - Returns

Sparks - I'm Toast [Single]

Morrissey - California Son

Various Composers - Classic CD (1991)

Federico Albanese - The Blue Hour

Lambchop - OH (Ohio)

Various Artists - Right On! Vol 3

Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Leucocyte

Various Artists - Trojan Presents: Dub - 40 Deep and Heavy Hits 1973-1981

Christoph Merki - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea

Various Composers - Music of the 20th Century : The United Selection

Rush - Vapor Trails Remixed

Nikolov-Ivanovic Undectet - Frame And Curiosity

Betts(JP) - Tunnel

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The Weeknd - After Hours

Agnes Obel - Myopia

Jacaszek - Music For Film

Roger Eno & Brian Eno - Mixing Colours

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia

Nils Frahm - Empty

Sparks - One for the Ages [Single]

The Killers - Caution [Single]

Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree

!!! - Louden Up Now

Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing And Drugs

Cloudland Canyon - Lie In Light

Melanie De Biasio - No Deal

Doris - Did You Give The World Some Love Today, Baby?

The John Dummer Band - Blue

Félix Dyotte - Félix Dyotte

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Disquietmusik

Up late again...

The views from the office this morning...

Toast and marmalade for breakfast before setting off to work...

Soundtrack today was a revamped playlist for this week's podcast, including this week's new downloads...

Then, four albums filed under C...

Lunch looked good...

But, of course, I had to put it on toast...

..where it remained good but not quite so healthy...

In the afternoon and early evening, four albums beginning with D...

The Melanie De Biasio led me to download more of her stuff...

A further unheard as yet acquisition today was a new release of Miles Davis live in Copenhagen in 1969, recorded a couple of weeks after "Bitches Brew", which celebrates 50 years this year...

Looking forward to that...

Also a new 10 minute download form Japanese ambient chum Mr Betts entertained...

Meanwhile, Anne's latest painting is progressing...

We did not exit the house today, other than me driving down the road to pick this up...

Meticulous hand-washing and carton cleaning and further hand washing preceded the scoffing...

Anne had chicken bhuna...

Lamb Jahlfrezi for the big man...

Good and tasty - but not quite as good and tasty as Anne's recent curries - but it was a good change for Annie not to have to cook - although I have offered to do so - offers which have been met with a certain element of disdain...

Probably rightly so...

Oh well...

The view from the office this evening...

"Kate and Koji" was enjoyed...

A call to my mum - doing fine and dandy...

Late on, post more record listening, new to us detective show "London Kills" entertained before turning in...

Highlight of the Day : Seldom heard music...and curry...