IN THE office I do a little more tidying – although until I can get rid of some the stuff that’s to get thrown out it’s like one of these puzzles with the wee square tiles and one empty space so you can shuffle the numbered tiles around to get them in the right order.

At the same time I do some more material tests on the new machine and, to avoid waste, make a dog tag for Nova on a stainless steel round. Works pretty good 🙂

Back in the house the app to control the heat source air pump is coming up with a blank ‘no connection’ screen. Mmm…I do. bit of research and can’t see any reason/problem. I decide to leave it for a few hours and see if it sorts itself out.

I should be clearing/tidying the studio but I need to finish off the Black Bull website. It’s not difficult, but it is time-consuming as the old website was hosted and built on Wix which makes out awkward to download the media files etc used for the old site.

The afternoon is constantly interrupted by phone calls but I eventually get things finished apart form a few wee things that I’m awaiting clarification on.

The air pump app is still down, Margaret calls the installers – Greener Energy Group, who co-incidentally had been on the phone to me earlier to ask when we’ll pay the balance now install is complete (it’s not!). The girl tells us to callthe air pump supplier – Grant’s – technical support.

I call and wait in a queue for half an hour to be told it’s likely a wiring fault and not they won;t speak to me about it – they need the installer to call from the site! Margaret call Greener Energy back. It’s around 4pm and all the operators ‘are busy right now’ so she leaves a message…

With so much rubbish in the office and our bins full I go online and manage to book a 7.30pm slot (the last one available) at the Balfron dump. I can’t get my head round the necessity to book – or why they’re so strict about who can use which dump.

I brave the pouring rain and full the car before my 6pm guitar student arrives.

We have a good session then we hit the dump….