LOTS of work still to be done on a special order of Christmas gifts…so while Margaret goes to the village hall to hold a Q&A on local place plans, I stay in the office.

There’s a load of CD pre-orders to be labelled up to go in the post first thing tomorrow.

Once I’ve caught up with myself a bit I pull on my boots and take a walk to the hall to catch the send of the session and get a lift back.

I’m in the studio when Catriona and the kids rock up. I join them for a quick coffee then get back to it. There’s a load of work to be done on the album launch event, the gigs and the album release…let alone all the other stuff going on.

In between times I take a break to make some sourdough bread dough….then mix and bottle a batch of my ‘ultimate beard oil’ ready for the merch table next week.

It’s well after 8pm when I get back to the house and fire up the pizza oven. We eat outside then watch our pal Bill’s monthly livestream concert from Florida…