AFTER breakfast i get busy with the merch orders.

As well as the free-plus-postage stuff there’s the additional items most folks have ordered…and some of them need made. There’s also orders for embroidered beanies which I won’t have until tomorrow.

I make up some leather hat patches and print up various mugs then get the orders packed up and postage printed.

The other orders will need to wait for the embroidered beanies or other ‘blanks’ I’m waiting on.

Alastair and Karen are coming from the night and I wanna have as much food prep done as possible, starting with the Vietnamese rice paper wrapped summer rolls. It’s a bit of a fanny dance as the vermicelli noodles are cooked in coconut water with some bashed lemongrass stalks and then Wolle’s into the rice paper ‘wrappers’ with iceberg lettuce, prawns, coriander, mint and chives.

Once they’re done I make up the dipping sauce then move into the marinade for the salmon.

I have time for a very quick walk and am just back and shutting the studio when Alastair and Karen arrive. Next thing we know it’s nearly 3am….