I've been falling asleep here.

Yes, it's only 22:25 and I'm worn out. I'm clearly working too hard.

So what did we do today? Terry has spent all day in the toilet - but that's nothing t do with Liz's cooking of course.He's been tiling. It's not easy for firstly there isn't much room to move around and secondly, there are too many crooks and nannies ("as well as nooks and crannies" - ed) in there and they all need to be tiled. And so for most of the day we have been without ... err ... bathroom facilities which has been something of an inconvenience, if you pardon the expression. This evening though, there's a toilet connected to the wastepipe with a bucket of water for flushing, and that will have to do.

Liz finished off painting the bathroom while I washed down the walls at the inner side of the living room and then I painted that part of the ceiling with two coats of paint. Following that, we sanded down and painted all of the woodwork in that bit. We are doing the living room in halves because it's so big, and using the "other half" of the living room as a place to store the tools.

Once all the woodwork was painted we had a go at sanding down the wooden flooring in there. It seems like at one time there's been one of those rubber-backed carpets on there and the rubber back has melted, staining the wood. So on our hands and knees, we scrubbed away at the damaged part of the floor with 80-grain sandpaper. And you have no idea just how tiring that can be.