As I love making lists I can make one for this week which had absolutely no plans. Two videos made, four people found on Facebook (none replied yet), two shopping trips, two photo trips combined with the video and a shopping trip, tidied my bedroom, didn't speak to a single person directly in three days, scanned in every last photo I could find, booked a haircut for next week (she's always busy), seen the twins from X Factor, and edited my latest article.

I think the only thing missing (as you've probably worked out already) was the lack of people, having time and freedom is a great privilege but one that should be shared. So each old friend discovered is like buying another ticket and waiting for a winner, it's a lot easier to pick up from before than start from scratch. To add to the one who rejected me and other in primary school was another who rejected me's sister and an actual ex who didn't reject me until after our first date. She looks eerily like she did back in about 1979 when I went out with her. You can see it's a recent photo but I'd known her quite a few years longer and some people hardly change. And some things hardly change and that's being ignored by people.

I was emailed today telling me the two famous old signs in Aldwych had just been removed (and did I want them, no, they belong on roads), and basically demonstrates that at least for directions the councils must know every single one. Unless you ask them to find one and they act dumb. If they told me to (translated from literal) get lost and leave them alone at least I'd understand. But so many who did reply plead total ignorance. But the long list of recent messages have all gone unanswered as well. I also was told one I was told had recently gone had either been replaced or hadn't gone, I must find who told me and let them know. That has happened once already and wonder what's going on. A great relief though.

As the sign part hasn't arrived I won't be fixing it this weekend, as I've paid I just hope it arrives at all. I've got some routine photos to take otherwise, work tomorrow and that's about the lot. My other projects are slowly creeping on but weeks from completion minimum. And if my photos do indeed appear in a book this year I will be very pleased. That will be another landmark I can tell you.

I dread to think what I must have been like up to my twenties- I keep finding more old friends online and hardly any reply. The last two were someone in my class from 7-9 and someone I was after on holiday, and neither have replied. Unless they're so busy they will wait till the weekend, my left buttock they will. I just found another two (you meet a lot of people once you start adding them up) and will see if I get the set. Apart from curiosity if just one becomes a friend again it will fill a major gap left by others.

I have however just been told a few photos of mine should be published in a book by the end of a year, that will be a first and all I did was post them online. The BBC have used two on their website but that turns over every day so not so lasting. I still wonder why it's easier to use someone else's photo of a shop than do their own but I'm not complaining. Maybe I have more time to do it. I was back in Golders Green today and if anyone knows the X Factor house is there this year I was driving to the crossroads when John and Edward, the only two I know, walked past surrounded by fans, press and minders. As I was stopped at the lights I tried taking some photos but were dreadful. Recognisable but no more. People stand outside the house waiting for them to come out for ages to get photos as the wall is so high it's the only time you will see them. I'll stick to Big Brother.

I think doing a blog makes you realise just how many things are going on at any one time, and even the little things that change in a day. I think the total is now two whole days without speaking to anyone in person, but could be three. Not a good recipe to keep your sanity either. No comments thank you. Tomorrow being Friday I go to my mum for dinner, and who knows what before. I have however got heaps of paperwork done today at last and some of the phone calls as well. On the quiz front the million will be very soon, mainly as there are so many new dailies and hourlies now which award quite a few for top ten. That mounts up pretty quickly whenever you do and comes with a number of new badges as well. No progress on the Mensa test yet though, I have another name to call locally and then it's down to south of the river. My latest article is now edited and off to the usual place as the magazine wants supernatural type stuff which I'll start next.

Well that's all today (stop clapping), so the episode ends with the questions will anyone from Facebook reply, will the sign arrive in time to be fitted on Sunday and will the temperature rise by 6 degrees by 2100 (OK, they made that one up). My money's on the latter from those three but still a million to one.

Have I heard it all? Today our wonderful papers reported some faceless wonder said temperatures were going to rise the maximum 6 degrees after all. Besides the fact it's impossible to find the starting date they measured this hypothetical rise from, so far it rose from said date by 0.4', which stopped in its tracks 11 years ago. But when our bullies start claiming too much people start to wake up and realise they are not actually plausible and lose interest and support. I can only hope this has been the effect as believe it or not prediction is still part of the supernatural and even science doesn't know what's happening in the future unless part of an existing mechanism like the stars and planets. Everything else is working on chaos theory, which by its nature is beyond prediction. End of.

My week has been much the same. I found two new names on Facebook and can probably add two more no replies. One probably wonders why I contacted her after 40 years (er, because I could) and the other probably thought she'd seen the back of me in 1982 when she thought I was trying to break up her engagement. Like I would... So that was the height of excitement since Monday, as it gets dark about 4 I've scanned just about every remaining photo online, and may start on the paperwork tomorrow. All I really want is to punctuate the activity with face to face conversation, but can't have it all. The two women who do visit from time to time don't really participate in conversation as it was designed, but just talk and rarely listen. I can watch TV and lately go on the computer and they waffle on oblivious, and may as well listen to the radio instead.

So far the week's activities have been by my own efforts, but Sunday was driven by someone else discovering a well hidden sign in the country. The time has come when someone has to intervene again or I'll spend tomorrow either driving around filming more almost identical suburbia, or filling in forms all day. There are three days left for the sign triangle to arrive before it's too late to fit it this weekend, 50-50 I think on that. Yesterday was better than expected and today was worse (as absolutely nothing happened besides someone recognising where an old photo of mine had been taken) so tomorrow could be anything. My other projects won't mature for months (if either do at all) so can't think about them for the time being, and there's only so much you can do by your own initiative. And at last I have the guts to turn down invitations to activities even worse than nothing, it was doing them that started my anxiety off in the first place.

After a frantic couple of days collecting more signs (posted in the photo forum) I had mainly free time ahead. It gets dark at 4 now so have to work round that plus catch up on indoor work. I spent the whole day on photography today, I went out with the video and still cameras, came back and filmed a music video and then scanned in another heap of photos even though I thought they'd all been done. Nothing amazing but quantity if nothing else. Tomorrow remains a mystery and will find something to do as usual, more videos to watch if nothing else. I can always make more local videos as they are becoming quite popular and just had someone in Nashville who saw his old area in Burnt Oak where he grew up.

The email situation seems to be worse than ever, not a single person has replied to my enquiries so probably won't, but if something has to be discovered I usually do eventually as that's my nature. Some mysteries may take me 20 years or more to get to the bottom of but one by one if it's there I'll find it. How an old sign can both be on a road I've used regularly and not on any photos of it I don't know, and is the current mystery of the year or possibly decade. But today has been very productive with few plans until I thought of making a video, so hopefully so will tomorrow be.

Meanwhile Facebook is the next place to dig up people from the past, the same and other names go in and every so often one hits the target, then I wait and see if they reply. I got someone from my class at primary school last night and wonder what she'll do as I haven't seen her since 1969. She's a doctor now, as so many of my friends from that era became, if they weren't lawyers that is. She's not a romantic interest but would be very interesting to meet again if possible. Another school friend I did meet recently is 50 today, the sand is running out now and will soon be empty here as well as far as that decade is concerned. I've already made a list of what I have actually managed in all that time, rather than all the things I haven't which I did as well.

So the rest of the week is a bit of a test, will it keep providing material as it has today, which to be fair was all done by my own efforts for a change. And why not?

For anyone who has been following my progress, the guidance from chaos to order started some months ago and once began has continued since. So when I was at a total loose end yesterday I did my monthly or so search for old road signs area by area, and after a couple of hours one popped up in the middle of rural Surrey. Being in Surrey myself at weekends meant instead of a dreary trip to take a plastic subway sign in Hounslow I was able to drive about 30 miles into the countryside and take yet another direction sign. Although London is on Streetview and more or less covered Surrey is not and besides the A roads which have been driven the little roads remain a mystery. One less now and Hounslow will be tomorrow.

Other than that just business as usual, and so far have few plans to bog me down next week. I will now be collecting my articles, plus complete the new one for the second booklet, although can't see how I'd sell many besides a few in the places who bought the first one. But no need to edit or fiddle around as they've all been used already. But tomorrow's taken care of and I'm happy to sit at home and finish my paperwork now I've got more collecting done. None of the people I emailed this time have replied, not quite a record, just a reflection of how useless most of the staff are when asked to do anything beyond their job descriptions. Someone just found a pair of signs with a red triangle south of the river (Thames that is) for the first time, but about 75 miles south and just as far as the nearest ones north. But if they're on farm tracks and similar (although a few were on proper London roads till a few years ago before my project began) the survivors elsewhere are nearly all on private roads still allowed to use them. So it's now farm tracks and goodness knows the needle in the haystack odds of finding one, even with quite a few people joining in.

Yet another book explaining why global warming is a political fraud has just been published, and can only hope the next step (except being Britain it tends not to) would be a demonstration against so-called 'green taxes'. No election can stop them as all three parties agree on so much so none will change a thing whoever wins it. If the deniers (or knowers as I'd prefer they called us) organised the usual thing down Whitehall one weekend I do wonder how many would turn up? I'll air it on Facebook and see what they think, first decent idea I've had for ages. Any volunteers to get it started?