Well, as this photo shows, after months of work I am finally almost finished in doing up my house in Leicester ready to sell. I had a couple of valuers round yesterday who seemed fairly impressed with the state the place is now in, which is some relief.

To be honest, I'll be quite glad to be shot of the day-trips from Birmingham to Leicester which have become quite a regular part of my life over the last few months. And thanks to road-works at both Spaghetti Junction on the M6 and at the Leicester south motorway junction, my average journey time has been around two hours, rather than the 55 minutes or so which I'd been used to.

The traffic jams on the Leicester ring road - something unavoidable in the current state of affairs - have been the worst. Yesterday it took me nearly an hour to get a couple of miles. There are consolations though: I quite enjoy people watching in traffic jams, and James Morrison's debut album is quite fantastic and also fairly soothing on my otherwise frustrated mood.

So now... the house goes on the market. And we watch and wait.