WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16TH - The truth

It is 2.15am on Thursday morning. (I always write the blog the next day). I am awake. This is not surprising and over the course of my life, totally par for the course when I'm planning something. I can remember being awake for hours before Katie and Joe's birthday parties. My brain is buzzing, as I play out the hour and all I have to do - or rather, chosen to do.

How easy it would be to just take a book up there to read or sit and think or do yoga (if could do yoga). Little thought and effort required, just go there, do it and go home.

I'm treating this as training for going without sleep next week, which will be like night duty and flying to Australia, so I know what to expect. I'm hungry now, so eating peanut butter on oatcake. Going back to bed. But not before a quick peek at the plinth. Young girl painting.

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Okay then, friends and family. I'm owning up. There have only been a few that knew the truth, but now I'm telling all.

I will be sitting on a toilet on the plinth.

Yes, it's true. My dignity is out of the window for the cause of Water Aid. And here it is, as a work in progress.

Work in progress.

Went out Paragon Creative at Elvington, to see it in it's basic, polystyrene, state. It's still to be added to and finished off. The cistern is not attached and the pipe will be shorter, for obvious transport reasons. We hope it's windproof. I cannot thank David Bloodworth enough. Soroptimist Ann is going to the factory on Monday to do the finishing and I'm picking it up on Tuesday for trip to London on Wednesday. Isn't it going to look great being transported from York to London by train!!! Really should have someone filming it. *Ping!* I will ask a Soroptimist if they can do that.

There have been two ceramic toilets on the plinth, so far. None twice as large, with a cistern attached though!!!

It's hardly surprising, that the York Press want a publicity shot with me with the toilet and that's planned for next Tuesday. Oooh Aide, bet you're pleased to be in Australia next week!!

Now, what on earth has this to do with Dame Judi Dench? No-one will know that until I'm up there. Picked up the photo from York Press this morning. Thank you Ann Wood. Please be assured that Dame Judi has nothing to with the toilet.

The photo is just perfect for my needs. I went along to the printers to find out cost of printing and laminating (rainproof) what I want.

Found the perfect suitcase in the garage. Poignant when I opened it. From the addresses on the inside of the lid, it looks as if my uncle used it for his travels, before my mother used it to go Switzerland in 1937/8. Appropriate that a little bit of family will be on the plinth with me. I have to buy some luggage labels today.

An email was forwarded to me from the Soroptimist International Yorkshire Region secretary. The news of my plinth adventures is going far and wide. Good. That's the idea.