Our new home in Hanbury Street is now mostly finished. One of the last bits to be completed was the Sherlock Holmes room. This is a meeting area that houses our library of reference books.

Because the room has a big glass front facing onto the beautifully preserved old houses of Wilkes Street, we decided that, rather than a modern office space, it would be nice to have something more in keeping with the early Georgian period of the street. Yes, we know Holmes was significantly later than that and no, the furnishings in the room aren’t authentic to either period but you get the idea.

We’re sure many of you are dying to know what we get up to on reception as all we seem to do is laugh and gossip. So, here it is. Apart from doing the usual of answering phones, booking taxis, making lots of teas and greeting clients, we also have to act as security guards to protect everyone from the passing weirdos who want to come in and take a look around. They don’t seem to understand that we’re not an art gallery, or a library, or a shop, or anything else along those lines and that we are in fact just an office. A lot of them have taken a shine to the self portraits that we have all done, which now decorate three of the walls in reception. Some inquire how much it would cost to buy them, but we’ve told them we can’t put a price on artwork of such a high quality! 

In between the influx of our ‘unusual’ visitors and more welcome guests, we perform our daily tasks to the best of our ability and make sure we’re having fun while we do it – we feel it’s important to have a friendly, relaxed atmosphere on the front desk.

Katie and Claire xx