... just like many others, so I don't know why I feel so tired. We started with a bit of dusting of display cases and machines, and polishing the mirror plinths which look good but show every fingermark and dust mote.

Two of the cataloguing team were in, recording, labelling, shelving. Logically we must be starting to make a dent in the backlog of items to be dealt with, but it doesn't always feel like it!

I took some photos for use on the website - a few interesting items, including my favourite, the ICL One-per-Desk. In the current climate of tweeting and skypeing, the idea of having a computer with a built-in phone in the 80's seems great. As I was using IBM mainframes at the time, it's not surprising that I've never been able to use one for real. But I can pretend!

I took a couple of turns on the desk to let the volunteers manning it take a break, which gave me a chance to sit down for a bit.

I went through one of the office machines to look for some photos, before remembering that yet again I'd left my flash drive at home. We do have CDs, but I could only find non-rewritables, and I'm too mean to put a few photos on a disc that I will then never be able to use again. We've got floppies too, but I don't have a built-in floppy drive at home. I've got a USB one somewhere ... if I can remember where. So I left the photos for this week. I'll do that next week - or is it the bank holiday? No, that's the week after.

I ran up and down stairs a few dozen times, so that must be what's tired me out, because looking at this it certainly wasn't the work!

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