WE’RE a bit late getting up…the weather’s not bad outside and after breakfast I decide to see if I can reclaim any of our only dismantled decking for a new, much smaller ‘top step’ deck.

I measure up, pull out some of the better condition deck boards, give them a good clean and scrub and knock out some of the old screws and nails.

Margaret’s booked a slot at Balfron dump for late afternoon. Seems strange to me though this pre-booking that started during covid is still in force. That, combined with the very limited (and bizarre) opening times and the fact that they no longer accept stuff like plasterboard makes it a pretty shit facility.

Anyway, we have buckets of stones with broken glass from when the garden table got trashed by the wind that can’t be discarded over the fence so need to go to the dump along with other bits and bobs.

I save some more bits of decking and chop up the rest of the stuff lying around . The rotten stuff can go to the dump and better stuff in the woodshed for burning.

In the studio I mess some more with the video edit for Walk the Walk. LUTs, grading, aaargh…I’m out my depth but I manage to get a reasonable result and make widescreen, square and vertical versions for YouTube, Facebook and other socials. Not sure why, but the seem to get a bit mangled but he upload process which largely negates my grading efforts.

After our dump run I get back into the studio and lose myself in the video stuff…suddenly it’s after 9pm and Margaret’s got dinner ready.