A couple of days into our new home and things are starting to settle down. The builders are amongst us and may be our companions for some time yet. But already things have changed a lot since we last posted pix on here. Here’s how it’s looking:

The scaffolding has come down from the outside. The graffiti is still there, obviously.This is the glass wall on the Wilkes Street side, on what will be the Sherlock Holmes room.

This is the kitchen/cafe in the basement.

This is Darren, soaking up that new leather smell in our plush banquette seating area.

We put this starcase in to link the ground floor reception area with the cafe/public area in the basement.

Here’s ben holding forth.

Here’s our reception.

We finally actually moved in to our new building (16 Hanbury Street E 1) this morning. Inevitably not everything is ready, there are crates full of crap everywhere, the outside is still covered in scaffolding and I’m not entirely sure if the phones are working. But at least we’re all here.

The place feels very light and airy after our old building. It’s eerily quiet as we haven’t got the sound system hooked up yet. So no Peaches and ‘fuck the pain away’ making the foundations reverberate in the way we’re used to.

Most people had a little wander round the area at lunchtime to see what’s on our doorstep. Seems to be buzzing, with lots of cool shops and interesting little old streets. It all feels quite exciting – like first day of term at a new school.

Now, in which crate did we put the paper for the copying machines…?