MARGARET’s birthday today. We have breakfast then she has to go into Glasgow for extra shopping…and not for us either.

It’s the community picnic on Inchcailloch tomorrow (Sunday) and despite having put out a last call for numbers on Thursday there’s been umpteen people popping up and asking if they can come.

The boat bookings can no doubt be amended accordingly, but there’s now not enough burgers and other food for the number of folks!

I need to make room in the office for the 3D printer that’s been sitting in its box untouched all week. The place is a bit of a shitshow anyway so I bite the bullet.

First job is to flush out the cooling system and laser tune on the CO2 laser. A time-consuming and fiddly job that’s probably a year overdue. Then I need to clan the mirrors and lens, clean everything out and oil the rails.

With that job out the way I start pulling the place apart and chucking as much as I can in the bin.

Other stuff gets put in plastic tubs to go in the attic and other materials cut to go in the filing cabinet etc….and so it goes…

I get the back of it broken and hopefully get finished by the end of tomorrow.