I SPEND some time in the studio then go to the village with Margaret – she has some stuff to drop off and I take a walk back. It’s a nice morning.

When I get back the postie’s been and dropped off the cable for my guitar radio pack. It gave up the ghost mid-set at the Kymi Kantri festival in Finland – no fault of the cable….my own stupid fault.

When I upgraded my wireless system form Line6 to Shure, the belt pack transmitter had a different ‘orientation’ form the old with the cable socket and antenna on the top rather than the bottom. That meant my trusty cable was over-stretched and kinked which eventually led to the failure.

The cable was custom made (and gifted to me) by my pal Dave at the Music Cable Company whose cables are pretty bombproof…unless abused by my ignorance! I mentioned to him and he asked me to send it back to see where it had failed and remedial action.

Meantime, idiot Dave here examined the transmitter pack and realised the spring clip could be removed and re-oriented so it could be ‘the right way up’ after all! The repaired cable works a treat and has some additional ‘Dave proof’ measures!

I haven’t cleaned out the gutters oil the front and back of the studio building for a year or two and it’s badly needing done. It’s dry and there’s enough of a breeze to keep the flying biting things at bay so I grab a set of ladders and do the necessary.

There’s two ‘trees’ growing midway up the roof that I can’t reach form the outside but a venture out one of the skylight allows me close enough to grab and remove them.

A courier drops of the non-slip decking inserts I ordered…but Margaret isn’t best pleased..they’re silver rather than the grey she expected so we have a bit of a disagreement. Mmm…we’ll work out a resolution!

There’s a couple of orders for the ‘buy-one-get-one-free-to-give-to-a-friend’ CD offer. I get them packed, labelled and down the postbox.