An emergency that was not an emergency; and cooking...

Playlist

Various - Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2021

Harold Land - Hear Ye!

The Undisputed Truth - The Undisputed Truth

Various - Funk Soul Brothers and Sisters

The Undisputed Earth - Down to Earth

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Sparklemusik

Various - Recent Acquisitions on Shuffle While Cooking

Up super early to get the podcast done...

Brealkfast at home with the radio and then, a quick listen to some Harold Land...

...from this box of goodies...

Out and to Anne's mum's...

...for chat, coffee and biscuits and halves of chocolate éclairs...

The view from her window...

Jane arrived too...

The ladies...

We'd agreed earlier in the week that, artehr than a takeaway tonight, I would cook...

So, we drove to Lidl at Broxburn for me to get ingredients (I failed on a couple due to lack of stock) but the reason for Broxburn was the proximity of the Union Canal to the shop...

Sandwiches were enjoyed at the waterside...

Hmmm...

A call from sister Sheila - mum apparently not well..

Stroll cut short...

Dropped Anne home and headed out to Loanhead around 2...

Sheila was there - mum turned out to be fine - in fact she was actually less unwell than she usually complains of being...

Nonetheless I sent Sheila off and waited for the district nurse to arrive...

Dressings were changed, advice was given, reassurance was given and off the nice young lady went...

I was home just before five, having picked up the missing ingredients on the way...

And so, I cooked - chicken on creamy leeks...

It actually turned out pretty well - much to our surprise...

Another Saturday evening of good food, "Deutschland 89" and "Vera" ensued...

Highlight of the Day : Cooking...successfully...

Another good launch day...

Playlist

Various - 500 Singles from the 70's

Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How To Breathe Like A Stone

Jean Michel Jarre - Electronica 2

John Grant - Boy from Michigan (Single)

UNKLE - Rōnin I [Non-Mixed]

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Dissolution

Lemon Quartet - Crestless

Krononaut - Krononaut

The Undisputed Truth - The Best Of The Undisputed Truth

Florian Christl - My Piano Sketches

Various Artists - Jackie The Album

Michael Nyman - The Anthology

Various Composers - Dresden Classics

Florian Christl - Episodes

Concord String Quartet - American String Quartets 1950-1970

Nirvana - Anaesthesia

KMRU - inter alia

Rodgers & Hammerstein - The Sound Of Music: Original Cast Recording

Up...

...and realised I'd accidently uploaded the wrong versions of some of the bonus tracks for the new album...

Sorted - I left the others up - it was a version with vinyl surface noise overlaid - it is now the "record Store Day" version...

Sorted and released at 8am as planned...

By three or four am this morning, with sales coming in from America, this was possibly my best release day yet...

Scenes...

The sun came up...

Anne left for a Pentlands walk with Lynn - I awaited Blair, CDS having been moved first thing...

...and chaos in the back room having been created...

These needed to be de-assembled and new "separating bits" added back...

I WFH'd and popped back and forth to help out the arrived at 10am Blair...

By 11, we'd finished...

CDs restored...

Lunch was the best veggie burgers in the world ever - plus, of course, beans...

Yowsah...

In the afternoon, some Michael Nyman...

I was annoyed that the booklet was missing and was searching around the net trying to find it to read...

I suddenly realised it wasn't in the sleeve because I'd put it on the end of the box to indicate the box's content...

Idiot...

Some music from Dresden also enjoyed - randomly pulled from another box..

Anne returned having enjoyed a top notch hill climb etc etc - sunburned face could be seen from the wee room as I looked out on her later in the garden...

She had brought back raisins!

...enjoyed with coffees...

Later, a top notch tea followed all other top notchness of the day so far...

As predicted, big changes to the running order for the podcast, the first half of which was recorded tonight before hitting the hay at midnight...

A good day...

Highlight of the Day : People liking my music...and everything else too...

Preparing to send stuff off into the world...

Playlist

New Order - Movement

Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call

Japan - Tin Drum

Tangerine Dream - Exit

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle

The Cure - Faith

John Foxx - The Garden

Black Swan - Repetition Hymns

Valgeir Sigurðsson - The County

Philippe Jaroussky - Opium

Comsat Angels - Sleep No More

Concord String Quartet - American String Quartets 1950-1970

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Crack a Smile (Single)

Various Composers - World Sleep Day

Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker - How To Breathe Like A Stone

Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Trilogy

Alice Cooper - School's Out

Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)

Gentle Giant - Octopus

Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

Roxy Music - Roxy Music

Yes - Close To The Edge

Genesis - Foxtrot

G.S. Schray - The Changing Account

Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders - Promises

Clark - Playground In A Lake

Various Composers - Wolrd Sleep Day

Rochberg - String Quartets 3-6

John Grant - Preppy Boy (Single)

Kansas - Leftoverture and Beyond

Jean-Michel Jarre - Notre Dame Virtual Concert

Up late again...

It was April 1st and I was recalling that time back in May 2015 when Anton Corbjin's portrait of me appeared in a gallery in The Hague...

Many people on Twitter "liked" this and congratulated me...

I reminded them it was April 1...

Anyway...

Fang visited and stayed for a good few hours...

He was too tired to bother about the squirrel today...

...about which, the squirrel looked particularly pleased...

Fishcakes for tea - Anne's replaced my bean choice with a poached egg...

The scene this evening as the upload and notes etc for the new LP was finally finalised (or so I thought...

Sack hit...

Highlight of the Day : Fang hanging around...New LP ready...