Adjusting back to working after three weeks off has been made slightly easier by the fact that my scheduled work place is closed for renovations this month. I’m not overseeing any of the actual decoration or remedial work, but I have been trying to find things for people to do.

Without fail, each member of staff has said that at first they were looking forward to a quiet month, but a week of stock moves followed by a week of not a lot has left them each eager to go work in other libraries so they have something to do.

I’ve at least managed to catch up on a chunk of paperwork, but somehow I feel even more tired than usual – and I can’t work out if that is to do with the break, or the change in nature of the work.