This is it, I've been doing the same thing, going through the same process for 400 days now - goodness me, it sounds so sad but it feels so good. It's a real landmark, a milestone; break out the champagne - actually, maybe I'll save it for day 500.

Looks like the Top Gear guys did the mowing today, sit-on mowers are brilliant, especially for the huge stretches of land on site here. However, when the finished product looks like a five year-old went apeshit with a spade, one does begin to wonder if the old style ones aren't so bad after all...

I think it's important to mention something in the news right now too, just so it doesn't get forgotten more than anything else. One man in Austria was found yesterday to have been holding a woman in captivity. It was any old captivity though, she spent 24 years in his cellar. It gets worse. The woman was his daughter. His own daughter, locked up for 24 years. It gets worse still. He raped his daughter, then fathered her children. Seven children. I don't think anymore needs to be said.