I've just woken up :-(

Yes, out like a light again in the middle of the evening and it's hardly that I'm working too hard either.

This morning after coffee I wrote some more stuff for one of the radio programmes that we do - a delightful couple of pages on composting toilets, would you believe? And then I went out to cut another pile of wood.

After lunch I carried on emptying the first floor and finally, at 18:00, I was in a position where tomorrow, if nothing else crops up, I can rip up the floor in what will shortly be the shower room. It's nice tongue-and-grooving but it has about 100 years of ingrained dirt, being formerly the upstairs hallway until I turned the stairs around in November 2009. It's impossible to clean it and so it's coming up and being replaced with new. Once that's in and given a couple of coats of varnish, I can start on insulating the walls and then fit the plasterboard.

Yes, and I don't know why, but I also seem to have been very popular today. Four phone calls, from Cécile, Rosemarie, Percy Penguin and Liz. Maybe its those that are wearing me out.