THE phone rings while I’m in the shower…it’s Forth Valley Hospital offering me a cancellation appointment at 11am.

My dentist referred me a few months ago ’cos they’ve been concerned about a ‘thing’ on my tongue for the last few years.

I have an online guitar student at 9am but nothing else in the diary for the rest of the morning. My usual in-person student can’t come this week.

Margaret drives to the hospital and I’m seen by a specialist who reckons all’s fine and nothing to worry about. Just keep an eye on it (my tongue, that is!).

The oil light’s coming on in the car just a month after a service and a very expensive oil leak fix. We call onto Arnold Clark in Stirling where they top up the oil and book the car in for a ‘software update’ next week.

Back home I cut the grass, do some trimming then continue video editing in the studio until an occasional student arrives for a session.

After the lesson I work on a new idea for a social media ad for live shows. I wanna get an ad up and running for September’s show at The Met in Bury.