IT WAS after midnight when I got the merch orders finally packed and postage labels sorted…so. too late to have the parcels collected today.

I take them to our nearest post office which is about eight miles away..so a 16-mile round trip! I’d hoped Margaret would drive and I could walk part of the way home and get some fresh air but I’m outta time as I’ve to be in Gartmore early afternoon.

In Gartmore I sit down with some of the team from the Black Bull to show them how to make minor changes to the website. For some reason the wifi/router in the Black Bull won’t let us access the back end of the website…it has me scratching my head until I realise I can log in with my phone using data – so I suspect there’s something with the network.

We move next door to the village hall and everything works fine and everyone gets logged in.

Back home I pack the car with some stuff for the dump which we drop off en route to a new office/Christmas ‘do’ with friends in Balfron.