AFTER breakfast I discover – by accident – that my Buzz website is down.

It takes me an hour of deleting and replacing files and messing about on the server to get it back up and running.

I’ve redesigned the protoype spurtle I made the other day and start casting some. It’s not an exact science and, for what is essentially a simple process, pretty time consuming. I need to have ten finished by the end of the week.

I take a break to get the smoker fired up and tonight’s bacon-wrapped pork loin on – Betty and Liz are coming for dinner.

It’s late afternoon by the time the spurtles are cast. I have 12 – a couple that only just made the grade and, if necessary can be used for other areas of experimentation in the finishing process.

There’s a considerable amount of cutting, sanding, polishing and engraving to be done – and pins to be attached. A busy week coming up, so I’m gonna have to juggle things.

The pork is done and into a faux cambro an hour before our guests arrive so I have a little time in studio trying to get things organised for the week ahead.