I ended up finding a Starbucks where I could hide quite successfully – but my favourite place to camp out with a laptop would have to be the British Library.

August just isn’t a good time to try to assimilate yourself back into London. It’s full of tourists and those of us who work there are even more miserable ‘cos we aren’t on leave.

Re “I’ve been sat in Starbucks for twenty minutes and I’m already expecting someone to tell me to piss off and stop loitering”. There’s a challenge in there. How long could you sit before being thrown out or asked to buy another vastly over-priced cup of nasty brown liquid? The students pounding their laptops in the Borders branch in Cambridge seem to live there.