AFTER breakfast I have a go at using delft clay to cast a guitar necklace. It’s a bit fiddly and time-consuming – but the result isn’t bad and shows promise.

The cleanup job is easier and less destructive than my previous methods and these look like they could be finished without any coloured epoxy inlay. We’ll see.

After lunch Margaret takes me to the village to pick up a prescription and I walk back home.

In the studio I run through a new song idea a couple of times making a rough video recording to put online and see what folks think. Before I start any ‘proper’ work on it I need to decide whether it should be on slide guitar or ‘regular’ guitar.

The ‘regular’ guitar feels a bit more comfortable but I reckon it sounds a bit too country and outwith my (self-imposed) stylistic boundaries. The slide version could be more ‘Dave Arcari’ but seems a little clunky. That might improve as I fart around with it a bit.

The resulting very rough-sounding video switches between the two initial possibilities and I post it in my Wildcats’ Facebook group to canvas some thoughts….