I'm not going to be here much longer.

I'm all thoroughly exhausted again.

I slept right through last night until about 08:45 and it's been a long time since I've done that. And afterwards, while Terry carried on in the toilet, Liz painted the woodwork in the living room while I painted the ceiling and did some more sanding on the floor.

Once Liz and I had done that, we carried in ripping up the tiles and the old infilling on the terrace. We managed to make enormous inroads into that, and it was all put into dustbins, bin bags, crates and the like.

After lunch we went to the tip where I disposed of one of the sofas from here, an old carpet, some wardrobe doors and some other odds and ends. Back to the apartment via LIDL, we loaded up again with all the tiles, sand etc etc off the terrace and took that down to the tip. You have to pay to dospose of that and I'm sure that they make up the prices there. The first load a couple of weeks ago cost €68:00 - the second last week cost €36:00 and today's, which was probably the heaviest, cost €12:10.

But it's exhausting mauling all of this heavy stuff about. I'm not as young as I was. And so I'm going to bed early to recover my strength ready for tomorrow.