Alastair Upton, Chief Executive9 days to go and the line between ecstasy and agony is very fine.

I came to work to find Lynne, who looks after our tenants, in the middle of the front courtyard grinning like the Cheshire cat. The first tenant was moving in. One of our creative retail tenants, Landbaby, was starting to fit out their space.

Standing in the hub I can see through the window a tree moving, not swaying, but moving from one side to the other. Rushing to the window I find that the garden has arrived and three new small trees are the first soft planting.

At lunch time the two architects argue about the position in modern architecture and its appropriateness in our new building of a small 1cm gap around the wall. They dive from despair in the detail to joy at the whole from minute to minute.

Meanwhile the curators are wrestling with bird boxes that are being hung from the ceiling and Yoko Ono’s curator has arrived with new ideas that have us calling the fire officer to see if they are allowed.

Then in the afternoon our first soft event starts which is to test one of the small rooms as a venue for talks. It is world book day and the author Mal Peat is here to launch Liverpool Reads. The hub is buzzing with people for the first time but I can’t make the event as I’ve been called off elsewhere only stopping to eat one of the freshly baked chocolate brownies.

And then in the evening we have 200 people in to see how the performance space will cope. The operations team spring in to action directing and controlling the visitors looking all the time to see what works and what doesn’t. The acoustics and sound system do so the talk goes really well. The audience leave, so has the sentence structure in my blog, and now there are only 8 days to go.