AN online guitar lesson first thing..then a message from our pals from Finland. They were meant to be coming to stay tonight, but Sanni has a bad cold and doesn’t;t want to pass it on to us before we go to Spain.

Shame we won’t see them, but we’ll catch up soon – here or there.

The upside is that we have time to finish merch and other prep for the Spain tour. Time’s tight as we leave the house around 3.30am on Thursday.

I help Margaret with some stuff for the local community trust – the ongoing saga of the community asset transfer request for the car park in the village is, hopefully, nearing a conclusion.

I’m in the studio experimenting with some recording techniques when my evening guitar student rolls up.

Once we’re finished with the lesson I get some chicken breast in to sous vide and do some more work on merch in the office.