I think The Man Who Lives Opposite is about to move out.

You may remember that by way of a day job, he buys properties, does them up and sells them on. And he's currently in the process of doing up The Flat Opposite. So gone are the days of watching him hunched in the window bay typing typing long into the night.

In these renovating days, he potters around in stark high wattage stepping up stepladders and slithering plaster onto the walls.

I think he is possibly trying to provoke me into some kind of declaration before he leaves. As on Sunday evening, he performed the whole DIY show half naked. Topless you understand rather than the other dreadful way round. It was nonetheless very distracting.