Today I decided my iPod is woefully underfilled. At just over 100 Gb, there's still 80 gig teasing me, so I ripped  box sets to iTunes. Well, except for the Genesis ones that have already been done. So that's:

• Maurizio Pollini Collection - 13 discs
• Coltrane - Impulse Sessions - 8 discs (actually already had these ripped for an MP3 disc but didn't ( Read more... )

This weekend, in slightly belated honour of sha_d 's birthday, sha_d , munchkinstein , jennifermc , helenex , her new beau Ian, zantic and myself piled into cars and headed north. The rendezvous point: the Moulin Hotel, being most of the small village of Moulin, just outside Pitlochry.

Why, I hear you ask, do we head for such a remote spot? Well, because it's a hotel with a rentable 'annexe ( Read more... )

And so, the scores on the doors are ( Read more... )

Thursday night me,
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Whisky Live day one is over. To be honest I'm not entirely sure it's been that great. It's been nice meeting up with some friends, and I've tasted a bunch of nice whiskies, but really, was that anything I couldn't have done down the pub for a lot less cash?

The event is expensive, with a two day pass setting you back £48, and the Highland Park " ( Read more... )

Aren't the best nights the ones you don't really plan? OK, so we did invite some folks over with about 10 hours notice -
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Hey ho! It was off to the pub I go - straight from work in fact, where the most excellent
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Not sure I've done one of these before.

Been out with ( Read more... )

So that's what a weekend without a hundred things to do feels like. I'd kind of forgotten.

After a Friday night chilling out in front of the telly (watched Backbeat - the movie about Stuart Sutcliffe and the birth of The Beatles) Saturday dawned a beautiful day. Way too nice to stay in in fact, so we powered up the kinemoopa and headed North - on ( Read more... )