MARGARET’S off to a community development conference in Glasgow – I have a full diary, but mostly phone calls and a flexible to-do list.

I’m not long finished breakfast when Fiona drops by with a gift for Margaret. We have a blether and a coffee, she heads off and I hit the studio for the first of my ‘telephone’ meetings which takes me up to lunch time.

I’ve a bit of prep for my Thursday morning music session at the school in Balloch then may first afternoon guitar student arrives. Not just my first, as it turns out, also my last of the day as I get a cancellation message from the father and daughter lesson scheduled for later on.

I sometimes think I should charge a cancellation fee or something then remind myself that all my students – online and in-person – are so flexible and accommodating with any changes I need to make that I bin the notion.

In the kitchen I prep some Italian sausage sugo for pasta later then walk along to the village hall for a newly-organised ‘pain’ seminar with a physio team from Glasgow.