Knowing I had someone due over to record some music today, I slept fitfully, waking regularly before my alarm clock eventually marked wake-up time. I knew that my recordee wouldn't be around until 12.30, so I started doing tasks that needed doing and which I now had time to start.

Task 1 - stop eating crap. This was more of a non-task - don't eat any crap.

I took my bike to be fixed.

I drove to B&Q and returned some surplus paint, picking up some new paint for my living room.

I headed to the guitar shop to see if I could find a back-pack guitar for my trip to Edinburgh in August. It's this Edinburgh trip for which I was planning to be match-fit on the bike for also. I want to cycle around Edinburgh this Fringe, enjoying the sights, the speed of transit and the exercise. It's a dream.

My friend arrived at the station as I was in the guitar shop, so I hurried over to get her. We had coffee and then went to Tesco to buy lunch. I snuck a few weekly-shop type things into the trolley, including some compost, since I've rescued one of my potted-plants from Newcastle and want it to live.

Then over to mine where we spent about 6 hours recording music, eating huge sandwiches (basically healthy) drinking lots of coffee and having fun. By the end of the session, we had two CDs and I had blisters on my bass fingers.

I dropped the friend off at the station, came home and painted by living room.

That was a final activity to hang my hat on for the day. I think I covered most bases there.