I love the sound of your life , Toby. Your arrangement of your workspace sounds great. I have a lot of books from my childhood, but my partner doesn't like them on show. They are not serious enough or some such thing.

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Oh thanks, that is so sweet, but rest assured my life is dreadfully dull 99% of the time!
I've worked for Children's publishers for the last 12 years, so I feel it my duty to have some books on display. It's only thanks to publishing that I have become accustomed to my luxurious lifestyle (living 4 stories above a kebab shop on Murder Mile.........)

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Ha ! I am sure your life is not dull. Maybe I will get a job in children's publishing ( or pretend to my partner I am working voluntarily for one ) so that I can get my Noel Streatfields and Elizabeth Enrights out.
When I was 14, I had a penpal I got out of Smash Hits, who was my penpal for four years, but I also had another penpal( not from Smash Hits this time but some penpal agency who chose her for me ) for two weeks, who lived on Prince Edward Island in Canada. She wrote to me twice , then never again. Anyway, she was in Edinburgh two weeks ago and put a note through my brother's door...who knows how she knew he was my brother or where he lived...saying she is sending me an "Anne of Green Gables" doll, because she remembers I loved the book and it is the centenary of its publication. I find the whole thing odd. But, if she sends it, I am sitting it here on the desk, no matter what anyone says !

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