MY morning guitar student isn’t well so I hit the studio after breakfast.

First job of the day is to make some video promos for the upcoming series of England dates. After posting vertical and square versions on my social, I’ll use the content to create targetted ads.

It’s nice day and I’d like a quick paddle, but a wander down to the bay puts paid to that idea. The bay’s frozen over.

Betty’s coming for dinner tonight and I’m making smoked beef short rib tacos. I go back to the house to get the smoker fired up…but it’s frozen shut and it takes me half an hour with a heat gun to get it freed up!

Once the short ribs are on we have lunch then I venture out on another tree trimming session. More progress, but the chainsaw battery runs out before I’m done so looks like it’ll be another day or two before I’m done.

In lieu of a paddle I go a wander up the lochside. Back home I check progress in the smoker then finish off some video edits in the studio. While the videos are ‘processing’ I play some guitar. Still need to do individual show video/ads but that can wait.

Betty calls to say she’s not been well and won’t make it for dinner. That’s a shame…’cos the smoke beef shortrib tacos turn out great…and the homemade avocado sauce and salsa toppings set the beef off nicely.

After dinner I spend time on gig promo and some other admin stuff…