It's 9.45pm and I have just finished helping Hilary with the tiling of the last shower room, she is still grouting as I write and will no doubt carry on until that particular wall is finished. We seem to have worked non stop today what with painting, fixing shower curtains, taking down the stair carpet, putting back the outside lights along the path and generally tidying up.

Simon and Marcus, no problems with him today, spent all day fixing the cladding on the gable end and worked tirelessly in the sun - we had temperatures in the high 60's today. The result is shown in tonight's picture, sorry about the scaffolding I will take another picture after it comes down, you can see from the fact that a light is on in the new shower room that it was taken about an hour ago when Hilary was tiling. Come to think of it she was also painting the ceiling while I was in the other room cutting squares and holes in tiles, little whirlwind that girl.

All the bathrooms are now basically hooked up with the taps and the loos in working order, all that remains in the small downstairs shower room is to have the shower control connected up and the fan fitted, this latter item also needs doing in the master bathroom. The outside rendering is finished, the manholes have been levelled and tomorrow two bags of gravel arrive so that the path around the house can be reinstated.

John has finished the connecting up of the sockets in the extension so we no longer have trailing cables going in and out of rooms and up and down the stairs, all we need now is to get the extension lights hooked up and the wiring will be complete - other than the garage that is which will have to wait until after we get back from holiday. The fact that we have power in the study means that I have been able to set up our internet connection wirelessly in the study and we have got rid of the maze of cables over by the TV corner. All in all it is slowly coming together and if I get a chance tomorrow I will hook up the desktop, printer and scanner.

Tomorrow night will also be a late one as we have to get our old bedroom completely cleared ready for the carpet layer who arrives at 9.00am Friday, and that is it for tonight as I am totally shot. Will try and blog tomorrow but no promises.