UP EARLY for my first guitar lesson. My student and her two (very well behaved) dogs) arrive bang on time and once we’re finished I hit the office to start a prototype make of the plaque I designed yesterday.

Margaret’s off into Glasgow to meet some old colleagues for lunch. I’m waiting – and hoping – for the lights I ordered to try and get a more even green screen illumination int he studio to be delivered. I’m filming tomorrow!

Meantime, I nip along to Betty’s with the bit I rode4red to fix her coffee machine. I get if fitted easily enough. fingers crossed it works OK.

I get the Ben Lomond plaque finished. Looks OK but I need to move the cloud from behind the Ben..and maybe exaggerate the size of the hill a bit to make it stand out more. Maybe I should make the whole thing a little bigger too. Otherwise, it’s not bad!

Thankfully the lights arrive late afternoon, then I nip down to the village shop to collect some cable my pal’s have left for me.

Back in the studio I get the lights all wired up, working and mounted. Not exactly ‘pro’ level, but a lot better than what I was using. There’s wider, more even coverage and looks like not so many hot spots and shadows.

There’s some work to be done sorting out the Shure wireless system on the pedalboard and I’m just finishing when Margaret gets home with some shopping to be put away…