I’ve had a lovely morning today, at Garway Primary School in Herefordshire, where I was honoured to be asked to officially open their lovely new library.

It was a beautiful morning. The rape fields are starting to flower, so the countryside is turning dazzling yellow.

Garway is pretty much in the middle of nowhere and very lovely for it. Theirs must be some of the luckiest children in the country, if not the world! There are not many in the school, so the teachers have quite a lot of time for the children and it shows, all of them bright and perky, well-prepared and full of questions. It’s the kind of school that I’m sure everyone wishes they went to or that they could get their children into.

When you have a small number of children in a school, they all know each other really well. I suppose that has its drawbacks – like there’s no place to hide – but in the long run I’m sure it pays to have smaller class sizes and a certain distance from all the pressures of modern life.

After my sessions I was grilled by the school journalists, who kept coming up with supplemental questions. One of them, I’m sure, is going to be a writer when she grows up!

Good luck to you all and enjoy your lovely new library!