Today was the inaugural Maughan Library Hide and Seek night.

The KCL library at Chancery Lane is a truly excellent building. It used to be the Public Records Office, but once that was moved (to God knows where), it was refurbished thanks to some enormous grant from some bloke called Maughan, and now it’s absolutely lovely.

The hide and seek game, starting at 10pm in the cafe and organised via the wonderful Facebook by a smashing chap called Luke, was split into 3 rounds involving different sections of the lower levels of the library. About 15 of us turned up and we all went off to hide.

My hiding place was excellent – in the Humanities store, there are a series of moving bookcases, behind which are a couple of alcoves. I curled up in one of the alcoves having slid the bookcases back across to block the entrance – and although no less than FOUR people came to look for me and were within a metre of finding me, they just didn’t consider moving the bookcases and I wasn’t found for the duration of the 15-minute round. Some extremely good hiding places were found tonight.

The camaraderie of the evening’s proceedings was excellent, and all the people there were magnificent and great fun. Sadly, I’ll be leaving this university soon and there will be no more hide and seek for me.