Sunday, November 27, 2022

Systems, blood, art and football...

Playlist
Roger Waters - Comfortably Numb 2022
Blue Sun Chasing & Edward Spark - A ymn for the Theatre Rejects
OK Go - Hungry Ghosts
Kayak - Seventeen
Billy Preston - Encouraging Words
Nico - Desertshore
Motorhead - Bomber
Frazier Chorus - Ray
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Cool It Down
Lexer - The Fisrst Last Day
Moster - Dust Breathing
Alduous Harding - Warm Chris
David Bowie - Heroes
Blank & Jones - #Whatwedoatnight3
Robot Koch - The Next Billion Years (Foam and Sand Reworks)
Franky Wah - This Is SHÈN

Awoke around 4 but snoozed on, eventually arising after 8 and to the new machine...


The new hard drive was making a strange noise, so I decided to copy the music back to the C Drive on the old laptop - which took all day...

Meanwhile, both this morning and yesterday morning, my mum suffered nosebleeds when she arose - so, today, a call to NHS24 commenced at around 9:30 ad lasted for over 90 minutes, almost an hour of which was us on hold, as we drove over to Loanhead...

Mum actually seemed ok despite a plethora of blood-stained clothing requiring to be steeped and washed and blood to be cleaned up from several areas of the house...

Once the call had concluded and no action was deemed necessary - we'll see - we set about determining what should be on my mum's shopping list...

No eggs required...


Bread and cold meat added...


No cheese required...


No chocolate required although chocolate toffees were requested...


No orange juice required...


No coffee required...


No soup required...


No satsumas required...


...and definitely...


...definitley...


...definitely...


...no biscuits required...


Come blue top milk needed...


No medication supplies needed...


And off to Sainsbury we went, Anne taking the opportunity to do our shopping and petrol too acquired - at a knock down price due to sustenance outlays...


Back to my mum's and, ensuring she was fine, back home to continue where I'd left off with her phone call this morning, re sorting the systems...


Some programmes downloaded and some work done - the music collection though continues to be a problem but it seems to be gradually getting better...


Probably too much football was also watched - Germany scraping a draw against Sapin and could still go through but Canada thrashed by Croatia and out...


While I struggled again with the new system...


...Anne progressed her latest work...



And, of course, Fang popped by for a few hours...



Tasty chili for tea...








...while Fang had found a spot...


"SAS Rogue Heroes" hit the penultimate episode and remained engaging...

Post which there was, of course, more mucking about with the system...

Highlight of the Day: Mum being ok despite the current situation...

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Sometimes you just need to step away and have some fun...

Playlist
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Coldclear
Grice - Polarchoral
Franky Wah - This Is SHÈN
Nessa Barrett - young forever
Weyes Blood - And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
Andrew Wasyslyk - Hearing the Water before Seeing the Falls
Elder - Innate Passage
Selina Martin - Time Spent Swimming
Gleb Kolyadin - The Outland
Thierry Eliez - Emerson Enigma
Stormzy - This Is What I Mean
Lammping - Flashjacks
perfect piano lesson x 3nd - black and orange (EP)
3nd - view from here (EP)
3nd - we dance x avec toi (EP)
3nd - world tour
The Neal Morse Band - Morsefest! 2021 (Night 1: An Evening Of Innocence)
The Cure - Wish (Remastered 2022)
Rammstein - Adieu
Hammock - UnTruth
Jean-Michel Jarre - The Concerts in China (40th Anniversary Remaster)
GoGo Penguin - Man Made Object
Jessica Ackerley - A New Kind of Water
AJ&JG - Honeydew (Single)
Leandro Fresco / Thore Pfeiffer - Pop Ambient 2023
Capital Models - 2022-11-20
Bill Bruford & Ralph Towner - If Summer Had Its Ghosts
Cloudland Blue Quartet - Twentytwenty
Various - Can You Dig It!
Alexi Tuomarila Quartet - 02
Benson & Farrell - Benson & Farrell
Various - C.Sides Compilation 2006
Argent - Anthology
Alice Cooper - The Beast Of Alice Cooper
Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Alice Cooper - NME Flexi Disc
Bruce Springsteen - The Essential Bruce Springsteen

OK - Saturday, here we go...




The final podcast recorded with the old laptop...


I make no money from these efforts...


Done, dusted, uploaded...

While waiting for Anne to arise, some reading and listening in the back room, re Bill Bruford...


Fang reappeared...


...and spent a lot of time in the house today...


The new laptop was finally connected to the hard drives...


...but things were not going to plan...

More stress and frustration...


At 4, I left it and Fang left us and me and Anne headed into town for a meet up...


...by the time we approached the rendezvous, an hour had passed and darkness had fallen...


We once lived in this street...


We were at Pierces at the top of Leith Walk, where gin for Anne, including an orange one, and pints of Heineken, Amstel and Moretti for your correspondent were enjoyed...


A meet up for an evening of good chat and some refreshment with Keith & Maureen and Jane & Bob...



Around 6:45 we set off down Leith Walk for a table at Knight's Kitchen almost at the foot of the road...


Keith and Maureen had been before and explained the set up regarding this African eaterie...


Lovely, subdued surroundings...


...and a fellow diner captured the family night out...


Excellent wine was accompanied by...


...copious amounts of excellent food...


This was the only one of the three platters brought to the table (with a couple of sides too) which I captured for posterity...


At 9:30 we exited - a top night indeed...

Keith & Maureen headed home while the remaining quartet walked to the top of the walk once more...



...from where a taxi was utilised for the journeys home...

Despite making coffee on our arrival, apparently I was soon fast asleep on the sofa...

A good night out to take my mind off the ongoing computer travails...

Highlight of the Day: Out with the family...