More shifting space, moving rooms - Gill and her dad have been busy shoring up the platforms in the downstairs bedrooms, building shelves underneath and moving our existing bookshelves out into the hallway. The shelves look surprisingly well placed there, they make the house look so much more homely than before. On the downside though, everytime I pass the front door I find myself poring over the hundreds of titles I’ve yet to read. Until recently they’ve been stuck away in a corner, where they were hard to scan, but now the whole expanse is there on view, and I can’t help picking out ones I want to read on every pass.

I’m already in the middle of M John Harrison’s Light which I’m enjoying more than any of his books in a long time, it works so well on so many levels. And I’m also working my way slowly through Adobe InDesign Clasroom in a Book, but still I couldn’t resist adding another to my “currently reading” list, an ancient copy of The Penguin Book of Lost Worlds Volume 1, which I think used to belong to my Grandma. I’m rediscovering my obsession with ancient Egypt, kicked off when I was two and the “Treasures of Tutankhamen” exhibition came to the British Museum at the beginning of 1972.

I think I need a few days off now, so I can do some more reading…