...77,459 words. And that concludes the Estonian bit of the book, and thank Christ for that; I thought I was going to be stuck there for weeks. Onward now to the London bit.
I want to apologise to the villagers - particularly the non-residents, so to speak, who keep getting these updates for a book they're not interested in and will never ever read - for these fiddle-faddling thousand and two-thousand word updates on their fpages. It must be very tedious. All I can tell you is that I'm dragging myself through this book by my fingertips, and the wordcounts keep me going.
Having said that, if you don't mind I'm going to take a couple of days off now. I'm very tired.