WE’RE UP reasonably early and after breakfast venture outside to raise the gazebos for this afternoon’s ’gig in the garden’.

Margaret and Dorothy start getting the seating and stuff sorted out while Bill plays some guitar and I start bringing over my gear and the PA etc.

Everything goes pretty well to plan and I get Bill sound checked…but when I plug my guitar in there’s a problem. My Quad Cortex is goosed. I try various power options in case it’s a voltage issue but nothing works so I end up having to DI my guitars into the PA. Not great, but at least it makes a noise!

The event is advertised as 2.30pm gate for a 3pm start but of course folks start rolling up early…some as much as an hour which kinda stresses me out as any time I’d made up by being organised and making sure everything was well prepped in advance has been consumed with the Quad Cortex issue.

Regardless, we manage to stay on track and the garden’s full of folks when Bill kick things off at 3pm.

We take turns to play a few songs each and then do a couple together at the end – and apart from a few showers the weather’s pretty much on our side.

By the time everyone’s gone and we’re tidied up it’s nearly 8pm and Margaret gets dinner sorted. Mikey had been going to camp up the loch side but at nearly 30 quid to pitch a wee tent for the night we decided he couch was a better option.