So many little jobs are getting done during the lockdown that I'm sure the house and garden have never looked better or been so clean. Today I took all the books off the bookshelves and gave them a little brush over and re-arranged them in a more logical order. The picture shows the shelves in the study but there are more in the dining room, my work room and the children's room. Part of my housekeeping process is to weed out anything that I don't love or need and I pass them on to local charity shops so that they can benefit other people. Since my father died I have been quite strict with myself about this as while I was dealing with his book collection I realised it is possible to have too many books. To Dad, books were almost sacred objects, and once they entered the house they were never likely to leave, even if they got damaged or he didn't like them. He actively built up many shelves of non-fiction books to make a library for himself, and for a while, this...