MATTY’S up and away before we get up…and enjoy a slightly late breakfast.

It’s the local sheepdog trials today – an annual fixture in the community diary – but before we go I need to edit the last version of the video for Wanted (Dead or Alive) . I have widescreen and vertical versions – just the square format to do now.

There’s also a couple of journalists that I forgot to send the news release and links to so I do that then go back to the house and start a batch of pork, chorizo and butter bean stew.

Will and the kids are coming to meet us at the sheepdog field and Margaret gets a message to say they’re nearly there…so she jumps in the car to go and meet them while I finish the food prep then I start walking to meet them.

As it is they pass me on the way back ‘cos the weather isn’t great and the kids were getting restless. I carry on and spend an hour or two chatting with folks then walk home and spend some time with Will and the kids before they head for home.

Betty’s invited us along for dinner so we wander along and have nice evening at Passfoot. Joe generally needs to go to bed after his 10pm pills so we don’t hang around too long.

Back home we open a bottle of red and settle down to watch Only Murders in the Building – we’d heard it being talked about on the radio earlier today. Six or seven episodes in (Margaret’s terrible for saying ‘just one more before bed’!) I fall asleep….and wake up after 4am. Time for bed, methinks…