Well it did become a bit of a blur with Sat Nav moment in between. Seven days of Library visits is really quite exhausting. It’s lucky I was staying with my parents-in-law, who gave me lots of care and food and cold beers in the evening.

It may have been a blur, but it was good fun and I met a lot of wonderful and dedicated people all week.
I had great fun on Friday morning with St Joseph’s School. They had been writing fairy stories with a modern twist and several children read out their own stories. One lad was a star – I think he will have to be a politician when he grows up. All I had to do was draw some illustrations to go with their stories, so it was both easy on m at the end of the week and very enjoyable.

Rossmore is a wonderful new Library. You will see from the picture that someone has managed to decorate the post modern frontage with a basket ball!

I managed to get everywhere just fine, using my Sat Nav. It seems to have stopped working with postcodes though. I had a bit of a business getting To Canford Cliffs Library. It is on Western Road, which splits in about five different directions. Helpful passers by kept sending me off in the wrong direction. I was in such a panic, I forgot to revert to Google maps on my iPhone, which has saved me a few times before. If I had trusted my instincts, I’d have got there very easily, but it is so easy to think that the Sat Nav knows best.

Many thanks to Laura, Tricia and Julie for looking after me all week. Hope to see you all again in the Orange Box in March for the opening of the fabulous new Hamworthy Library.