NO LONG lies as Margaret’s meeting Catriona and the kids to go swimming.

My focus today is merch for next weekend’s trip to Belladrum. We reckon not many folks will want CDs or have to drag vinyl around a festival site, so the focus is on small, wearable stuff like earrings, badges and leather bracelets.

I’m mid-production on some leather bracelets when everyone arrives back from the swimming. Margaret made a quiche before she left earlier so we have that for lunch and I hang out with the kids a while then make a batch of quick, simple pizza dough for tonight. No poolish or cold proving…I wanna give the real basic stuff a whirl again. Takes less than three hours.

In between laser production I nip to and fro the studio messing with the new songs. I;ve got three almost fiinished…I;d like another two at least.

The kids are away and Margaret’s fallen asleep on the couch. the weather’s awful, so I forego plans for a walk and carry on with merch production.

I don’t have high hopes for the quick’n’dirty pizza dough, but it works out pretty good. More confident about last minute pizza now!