Saturday 22 April 2017

by | Apr 23, 2017 | Dave's diary

FEELING rough again this morning…I blame the late night chips. My belly’s not used to the carbs these days! We get the bus into the centre of Edinburgh and meet up with some of the other Wide Days speakers and folks. Olaf’s taking us all on a bus...

Saturday 4 March 2017

by | Mar 5, 2017 | Dave's diary

WE’RE up early and have breakfast then pack the car with the rest of the gear for tonight’s show. By 10.30am I’ve got a time-lapse camera set up to capture preparations for the gig and all the gear’s in the hall. Margaret leaves me to rig the...

Thursday 2 March 2017

by | Mar 3, 2017 | Dave's diary

INTO Glasgow early. Again. I drop Margaret off then take the car to the garage to have the underbody cladding fixed and two new tyres. Margaret will pick the car up later, meantime, I’m off to a music industry day at Glasgow University which kicks off at 9.15am....

Tuesday 14 February 2017

by | Feb 15, 2017 | Dave's diary

IT’S VALENTINE’S Day – we swap cards but, as agreed, no presents. In saying that, after givin spiralising a whirl with the wee manual gadget I bought last week Margaret did buy an electric spiraliser as a mutual gift. A half-price bargain on Amazon. A...

Sunday 6 November 2016

by | Nov 7, 2016 | Dave's diary

WE wake up in the van in McDonalds’ car park around 6.45am. Feeling a bit rough…and drive the couple of blocks to Enterprise to hand the rental back. Looks like it doesn’t open ’til 9am tho’, so we walk back to McDonalds and have some...