A WEST Highland Way Gifts’ order sent to Israel six week ago still hasn’t arrived. I’m finally able to start a claim with Royal Mail.

After all the farting around getting it submitted a message says it can take up to 90 days for a ‘decision’. Fuck sake.

I’m not keen to throw good money after bad and make/send another item so I’ll offer a full refund and hope Royal Mail pay out.

Meantime I work on some new merch ideas then, after lunch, mess with some guitar bits in the studio for the song Elaine and I are co-writing. Once done I send the audio files to her to get her feedback.

Margaret’s off shopping with the car and I have a local merch order to deliver. I kill two birds with one stone and take a walk to deliver.

An email from Elaine gives my idea a thumbs up and we arrange a few hours in the studios next week with the aim of developing our ideas further.

The new merch idea I worked one earlier needs a fair bit of tweaking. I’m trying to replicate the ‘colours’ guitar into a necklace but the resulting metal cast is too finely detailed and finicky…