"Oh, of course." She smiles. "Hotels are quite useful but I'd much rather have a place where I can set up a proper lab. It's much harder to do that when you don't have a fixed place to work."

She laughs, peering down at Bartholomew. "He needs to be fixed up a bit and I'm getting a bit fidgety, you know? I don't have much work right now and while that's al right, it's a bit boring."