After all the fuss over our new accommodation I was anxious to learn whether I would still merit a sole-occupancy office. We’d all be informed that nothing was guaranteed.

At 01:00am I learnt that my new work space could be found in an old classroom that had been partitioned into four units. My neighbours were SS, JB, and an (as yet) unidentified stranger. I was reasonably pleased with this arrangement.

Best of all was the view from my new office window. Stretching into the distance were rolling hills, and in the foreground a clutch of trees that was turning brown in the autumn sunshine.