This week's daily schedule:

I've been going to bed extra early this week, between 9 and 9:30. Here's why:

Get up 7ish... dress (put on dirty dig outfit from day before and pull hair up), eat breakfast, pack lunch and kit

Picked up at 8:10... drive 20 minutes to site, unload kit/tools

8:45-10ish... dig, trowel, mattock and get at least one new scrape or bruise, uncover one new layer of stone, silt, sand, or clay

Tea Break (how very British right... though as the American on site I do feel it is imperative that I drink coffee [smile])

10:30-1ish... more digging, troweling, mattocking

LUNCH (PB, honey, banana sandwich, insert fruit of the day, Jaffa Cakes-for sugar boost)

2ish-4ish... hopefully measuring and recording, but probably more digging, troweling, mattocking

Clean up, ride home

Pick up lunch supplies for next day and an afternoon snack (usually ice cream)

Veg on couch in TV room

Shower, remind myself each new bruise is a symbol of living my childhood dream

Cook dinner, eat, bed

Just, Margaret