UP IN time to get some work done before a 9am online guitar lesson. Feels like I’m getting back into my ‘normal’ routine!
Then it’s straight onto a local hydro society board meeting which takes me up to lunchtime.
I have some personalized trekking flasks to finish off and an order for a custom magnetic leather bookmarks to make up. There’s also some euros to be sent off to the foreign exchange place and some set lists to be submitted to the overseas collection societies before a coupla venues will accept invoices for my shows.
It’s a nice day so I take the opportunity to get some weed killer down but run out before I get to the front of the house. Refill ordered.
Next job it to dig out the ground spike/base for our rotary drier. It’s been in for about ten years, but the guy that put it in didn;t dig deep enough and it stood a good six inched above the gravel meaning folks were constantly tripping over it. Also, more recently, the grandkids have taken to filling it with stones and other shit, so the drier doesn’t go into the bae far enough and is a bit wobbly.
Of course anything involving digging around here is a nightmare as the topsoil is only a few inches before you hit rock, boulders and stuff. Plus the ground spike has been concreted in a huge lump.
Takes me a good coupla hours with a heavy ground breaking bar and hole digger – always annoys me that I need to make a 18-inch diameter hole for four-inch ground spike/base/post etc. Anyway, I get a suitable hole dug, empty out the socket of stones and stuff and postcrete it in. I’ll design and 3D print a cap to keep stones etc out, especially now it’s flush with the gravel.
In the studio I record some more idents for my upcoming show on Rock.Scot radio and upload some tracks to my library.
