After an exhaustive and fruitless search for alternative bookshelves, today we succumbed and returned to ikea to revist the bookshelves – and wonder of wonders, they had two in stock. They’ll be delivered tomorrow afternoon and I imagine we will spend a very large portion of the evening with an allen key.

Chez Hardly is quite the disaster zone, as we removed the mismatched furniture and set the books and toys on the floor near my desk (I’m knee deep in encyclopedia and soft toys).