MY MORNING guitar student isn’t well so she won’t be ’til next week so I get on with the to-do list.

First up is passport renewal. There’s a festival booking in Romania in April and although my passport tis valid ’til December 2024, it was issued in March 2014 and will be ‘more than ten years past issue date’. by April which means no entry to Romania!

Thanks to technology and the wonders of the web I can renew pretty easily online – but I need to take a selfie in the studio. I get it all done and paid for then package up my old passport to send off in snail mail.

After lunch I take a walk along the road to the next village to grab some photos of pavement clearance for the community trust – and maybe the upcoming. local place plan. Margaret’s been on at the council to do something about the state of the path for years and work has finally started today.

When I get back Julie and Maggi are in discussing the place plan. I have a coffee and chuck in my tuppence-worth before heading to the studio to get some work done on my accounts,

There’s a knock on the studio door just after 6pm. It’s Joel – he’s come to check the dog (Rosie) was OK in Maggi’s car, but she (the dog, that is!) is in the house in front of the fire! We chat and mess with guitars in the studio then go house for a coffee.

After everyone’s gone I make some tortillas from scratch using the directions from Masa Tortillas in Bristol…I’ve order more fresh ones from them, but they’re not here yet and we’re having tacos tonight. My newly amended recipe is a lot better than past efforts 🙂