John Tothill

Libraries have very good PR, don't they?

If you read about libraries, people are like, well, the library, for as long as we have libraries, we have civilisation.

The library, this bastion of hope.

You go to a library now and it's a stack of Dan Brown books and a nappy change area.

being presided over by a volunteer ghost.

And then, do you know what I've also done, Izzy?

I've occasionally tried to do working from home in a pub.

Has anyone done this, work from home people?

You ever try, or maybe I'll go to a pub during the day.

That's a disaster for a whole range of reasons.

It's a nice place if you want to answer emails surrounded by silent men who move in slow motion.

And the other scary thing is in a pub at the daytime, at any point, in the toilets, someone's going through the unimaginable.

And I don't just mean number twos, I mean number threes, people inventing number fours, number fives, you know, pioneers, really scary stuff.

Even that, even that I think is better than an office, you know, you really, Izzy, you couldn't pay me to go into an office, I don't think.

I appreciate that is the point, you are paid to go into an office, but you couldn't pay me to go in.

Dad, do you still work in an office, Izzy?

Do you still go in sometimes?

I see offices.

It leeches the life out of you people, doesn't it?

There always comes a point on a Sunday when my office friends, they go, I've got to go home now.