WE HAVE a bit of a long lie…and once breakfast is done I venture outside to try and get some more work done on the smoker shelter roof.

Surprise, surprise it starts pishing rain and blowing a gale. Great. I really need to be able to move the tarp to get to the bits of work that need done. I head to the studio to get on with some other stuff until the weather improves a bit.

Back at the shelter, I manage to align and brace some stuff…then find the screws that I have are a few mm too short. Turns out the batons are all a few mm wider than specified. Fuck.

Into the car to Dumbarton to get screws and, of course, it’s shit weather again when I get back. By the time the wind and rain have eased off a little it’s dark, so I end up trying to do some work with a head torch before giving up and deciding an early start in the morning might be best.

In the studio I give up the mixer connection battle and instead concentrate on seeing up the Quad Cortex – it can take a few inputs and isn’t restricted to guitars. I plug in a mic and start building some scenes that include a vocal mic should push come to shove.