While bookcases have shifted - sometimes more than once - and as a result entire sections of books have found themselves in new homes.

Meantime, the construction team has tackled plans for a new bookroom situated in our entranceway. The temporary structure will be neat, clean, dry and filled with wonderful books. At the moment is in mainly an outline and an idea or two - when Jacqueline Wilson dropped by she was just in time to test a new Italian-designed chair we’ll be filling with books . . . eventually!