This week is a nightmare. All during the development the Bluecoat’s offices have stayed in the building. Every time you seem to start a conversation someone starts drilling in the floor underneath or banging on the wall. After a year and a half of this I hardly notice the noise or dust.

It was a 7.30am start last Thursday for the Culture Company’s launch of the ’08 programme. This breakfast event was for the ‘08 key stakeholders’ and we were told it was a chance for the ‘suits’ to speak so that they wouldn’t be needed at the noon press launch.

Our programme is taking shape rapidly now. The exhibitions are mostly planned and the performance programme taking shape. It will be fit for the best new building in the City (and best old one).

I stood in the garden this week and for the first time could clearly see how the building would look when it was finished. The crane went over the weekend and so the complete shape is visible.