Year 67 over...

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Sunday and up - lurgi are dissipating at last...

The views from the office this morning, the last day of my 67th year (i.e. 67 tomorrow)...

Post breakfast, took Anne to her 9am Pickleball session then drove, slowly, out to Roslin for today's rehearsal - via Loanhead and the old house, now festooned with cars and a truck - but with new windows...

Our rehearsal set up is a wee bit like this...

Started sharp at 10:30...

...and played through all three sets for June - with a couple of 10-15 minutes breaks between for coffee...

Home around 4pm or so...

Then, post a salmon based tea...

...some TV...

...and an early birthday cake, of sorts...

...to the machines and a quick edit of today's sessions...

Total recording time was 3 hrs 48 mins, which, when distilled to one take of each of the 48 songs we covered, took it down to 2 hrs 40 mins...

But almost half of the tracks have errors which need to be addressed if we are to have a "definitive" version of the set to play along with at home...

That is for another day...

Meanwhile, CD Box 123, from Herbie Hancock to Tubby Hayes...

I chose this by trumpeter, Eddie Harris...

It's basically jams, with an all star cast, recorded at Morgan Studios in London in 1974 and includes contributions from Chris Squire, Alan White and Tony Kaye of Yes, Steve Winwood, Albert Lee and Jeff Beck...

It's more "interesting" than excellent, I'd say...

No time to listen yet though and so, that too, is for another day...

To bed just before midnight...

Year 67 over...

Highlight of the Day: Playing with the band...

Today's New Music:

Everything I say is a lie, and that's the truth...

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Up reasonably early on a Saturday morning and attending to stuff...

Rehearsing for tomorrow's rehearsal by listening rather than playing...

Post that, breakfast...

...and the next CD Box, No 122, from Grant Green to Herbie Hancock...

...from which I chose this live recording...

...from 1972...

...which I seemed to recall was pretty good stuff indeed...

...and, on playing it, after yesterday's chosen Gong disc, I found my recollection to have been correct...

At 10:30, over to Anne's mum's care home for a visit - including coffees in the cafe, where photos of the recent Austro-German trip were shown...

Home, just before a hailstone shower...

Then, while I compiled and created a companion Yes compilation to that of the other day (this time, all the closing tracks from their LPs)...

...Anne prepped some tasty home made soup for lunch...

At 1:30, into the car and a drive to that Bridge of Allan, to spend the afternoon with Sister Sheila and her extended family, quite possibly three years since our last visit...

...which was before Belle was born...

The view from the office this afternoon...

There was a "Mardi Gras" parade of fancy dressed campers from each of the Camping Clubs on site...

...followed by a quiz inside the big tent, lead by sister Sheila, Senior, Andy and, helping out, young Harris...

Some people were not paying attention to the questions...

There were also...

...unsavoury toilet facilities...

Earlier, I'd used the one in Ali's caravan and blamed Harris for my not understanding how it worked and telling everyone that he had been the culprit......

He was upset by this, until I told him to ask Auntie Anne if Uncle David ever told lies...

"All the time" came the response...

That made him feel better...

I then bamboozled him by saying that "Everything I say is a lie, and that's the truth"...

Later, a great big, unpictured, Chippie takeaway for all concerned...

It was similar to that of three years ago though...

...and was followed by football with the kids...

An old man was seen playing with his nephews and grand nephews...

...and was pleased to advise he was on the winning team...

6-5 for CBQ, Lockie and Andy v Dougie, Harris and Ali - which may well gave been a greater triumph than Queen of the South thrashing Alloa, in Alloa, 4-1 to end up 3rd in the league...

First play off match will be on Tuesday, at home, against Stenhousemuir...

An uneventful drive home (an accidental detour having been endured on the way up)...

"Taskmaster" and two episodes of the new Season of "St Denis" entertained on our return to Crispycat Towers...

Then, some football highlights, some music listening, and bed...

Highlight of the Day: A visit to the campsite...

Today's New Music:

Celebrating early is not too early to celebrate...

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Slept in today...

May Day...

Post breakfast, today's CD Box, No 121...

From Robert Glasper to Grant Green...

My choice today was this from Gong...

...from late 1976, a time when they were well past still having any founding members on board...

...but they did have Allan Holdsworth now, even composing two of the pieces...

...which definitely makes this worth a listen...

Which probably won't be till tomorrow...

Listening 1st thing was today's new CBQ album, dark ambience, recorded last August and now, at last, allowed out into the wild...

...with some measure of success by close of play, both in terms of plays and, indeed, sales...

Which was nice...

The view from the office this morning...

...as Anne headed to Zumba and your correspondent sucked in yet more music he doesn't really need, into his ever expanding library (see below)...

In the afternoon, some telly was watched and some falling asleep was inevitably done...

At 6:30 or so, out and a walk down the hill...

...to Prahna for an early birthday treat...

The food here is, in the main, out of the ordinary Indian fayre...

Spinach and Apricot Tikki for Anne to start...

...while I went for the One o'Clock Gunpowder Potato - both of those came with a fiery red sauce...

My main, which I've enjoyed a couple of times here before, was Kalmi Chicken, which is chicken breast, stuffed with a nuts and honey mince and served on a bed of spinach, with a Korma sauce...

Anne went for a melt in the mouth Kadai Chicken...

...all accompanied by a superb naan, some pilau rice, Indian Beer and a Spanish red for the lady...

As we emerged, full to the brim, this was the view...

A 26 took us back up the hill, where a couple of things entertained on the TV, the final "Beyond Paradise" and "Have I Got News For You"...

Some listening to tracks from the new acquisitions was followed by a welcome return to the land of nod...

Highlight of the Day:  Early birthday Indian...

Today's New Music: