MARGARET’S off to dermatology appointment and, after breakfast, I have some West Highland Way Gifts’ merch to send out.

We have pals coming to stay on Sunday and I’m gonna smoke some pork belly…there’s a whole pork belly in the fridge outside which I cut into manageable slabs, trim up and put a couple of bits aside for Sunday. I vacuum pack the other slabs and put them in the freezer.

In studio I carry on trying to develop a fingerpicking guitar tune I’ve been putting together.

There’s a bit of video to be filmed – just worth my phone – and I realise that my lav mics are all mini jack or lightning connectors, not USB-C as on my new phone. Dammit. I don’t have any money and I can’t justify spending a fortune so after a bit of research and to-it ad fro-ing between possibilities take a punt on an old version of DJI’s wireless mic mini.

I finish off some draft artwork for an info panel to fit around the local audio point and make a mini mockup/model of how it could look.

The it’s time to go to Helensburgh for dinner qt our pals Alastair and Karen. Normally we stay over but we have n early event tomorrow (Saturday) and I’m aff the drink so we’re home soon after midnight having had a grand evening catching up over a lovely meal.