Final video clip from my recent show at The Glad Cafe, Glasgow
USUAL Monday early rise to get the sourdough in the oven – more important this week as Mikey found some chanterelles yesterday and we’re gonna have them for breakfast.
The mushrooms on fresh toasted sourdough make for a great breakfast then I get some work done before a mid-morning session with one of my online guitar students.
Before Mikey heads off I create a mock up image of a shed he hopes to put up in his garden in Dundee.
After lunch Margaret goes to get some shopping – we need milk and yogurt amongst other things as our ‘extra’ fridge in the merchant store has finally croaked and most stuff in it has gone off 🙁
She also posts off the customer spurtle earrings, pin and complimentary pendant.
I finish editing the official Still Friends video – the single drops 11 August – so I can give the Wildcats a preview in tonight’s Facebook livestream.
I also edit the last live clip from the recent show at The Glad Cafe to include in the livestream
The livestream goes smoothly and I manage to get out for a quick walk before dinner’s ready 🙂
ANOTHER scortchio day – I get to work finishing the custom spurt order then hit the studio.
Once I get a set list made up for next Saturday’s show at Upton Blues Festival I run through some of the songs.
I think I’ll just take one steel guitar plus the banjo and acoustasonic as space int eh air is gonna be tight with all the camping stuff.
There’s a message from someone on Facebook who, back in February, made an offer on the camera stuff I had for sale then promptly disappeared. I’m naturally cautious they’re back in touch and after a few messages and a phone call from his brother-in-law a provisional arrangement has been made for him to come and see the stuff on Thursday afternoon.
Mikey’s arrived and is staying the night. I make some fresh pasta with wild garlic and an Italian sausage sugo. Once we’ve eaten we chill and watch Billy’s monthly livestream. they’re over form Florida and staying at their ‘other’ house in Invergowrie for a few months…and coming here in a coupla weeks for the garden gig.
Spurtle earrings and pendant taking shape…still a bit of work to do!
MORE work to be done on the customer spurtle earrings, pendant and pin…I get busy.
In the studio I record some audio clips for a radio show whose host has asked me to pick four influential songs and two of my own and record some intros to each.
It’s another lovely day and I decide to experiment with a GoPro to see if I can livestream from it…my test is to play Walk the Walk in the garden. And it works
I do a little more editing on what will be the official video for Still Friends then we walk along to Barbara and Thortens. They’ve got the grill on and invited us along for dinner.
Fiona joins us and we have a grand evening eating, drinking and chatting outside despite me getting stung on the tongue by a wasp that had got inside my bottle of beer!
Still a bit of finishing to do – and I think I wanna make them a little bigger…
AN email came in last night form one of the stars of the Golden Spurtle film that premiered in Copenhagen a few months ago..she was given one of the spurtle pins I was commissioned to make and she’d like some earrings to match.
After breakfast I get busy and by the time my new Romanian guitar student is online at midday I’ve got some prototype castings done.
After the guitar session I do some work out eh castings to tidy them up a bit. This is the laborious and often difficult part. I think they’re maybe a little on the small side. But send the customer some photos to see if we’re on the right track.
Margaret and Nixie have gone across to the island and aren’t back when I get the bus to the village for a doctor’s appointment. I’ve a painful left elbow and it feels very similar to bursitis I had in the elbow ten years ago. There’s so swelling it ‘heat’ tho’.
The doc reckons it’s not a bursitis and I just need to take it easy and see if it sorts itself out.
I have a nice walk home from the village and we sit int he garden and blether for a while.
Margaret’s made up some pinchos skewers for dinner which I cook outside on the grill….suddenly it’s 1.30am and we all head off to bed.
Just chillin’ – when it gets choppy but the wind’s in your favor why fight it…just go with the flow and take a break!
NOT long finished breakfast and got the day’s routine tasks out the way when Fiona arrives…we’ve planned a paddle for this morning.
It’s a lovely day but we’re not long out the bay when the wind’s starts to pick up a little. When we stop on the beach at Port Bawn on the far end of Inchailloch we notice the wind getting stronger and white horses start to appear.
We decide to head for home and come down the other side of the island. The wind’s is kinda in our favor so after battling a while to stay upright we decided to sit down – or in my case, lie down – and let the wind take us homeward.
The sun’s still shining when we get back tot he house so we sit in the garden and have a coffee before Fiona heads off.
After lunch I get busy with some promo for Friday’s release of Walk the Walk then start the video edit for the next single – Still Friends –which drops 8 August.
FREYA has us awake at 6.30am – which means I get my sourdough in the oven at a decent time!
I’ve managed to get through a fair bit of work before my mid-morning Zoom guitar student.
Joel and Maggi stop by and drop off Rosie for Freya – she’s crazy about dogs – to look after for a few hours.
Margaret takes Freya and Rosie for a walk and a picnic while I get busy int eh studio.There a couple of videos I wanna get edited up which also gives me some extra content for tonight’s Wildcats’ livestream on Facebook.
There’s an order in for another leather bookmarks which I get busy with then Joel and Maggi come to collect Rosie and we have a coffee and a chat. Around the same time Will comes to get Freya.
I have time for a quick wander up the hill before the livestream…then dinner and some telly.
AFTER a lazy morning drinking coffee and dealing with emails and social media we have breakfast then I get busywith stuff.
First job is cleaning the grate from the smoker and some general tidying up outside.
With the release of Walk the Walk coming up on Friday (11 July) there’s another phase of work – website landing pages and a Spotify pre-save, prep for a preview release on Bandcamp, special media banners with links to the pre-save and a vertical edit of the video.
Then I create a teaser reel for all my socials.
Catriona arrives with Freya and we have a coffee then I finish off in the studio.
When the rain stops I take Freya or a walk then drop her at the house and wander a little more on my own.
