Those books were misleading though. I spent every holiday as a child looking for secret passages, smugglers tunnels and hidden treasure, but never found anything.

It's fairly big! Not absolutely massive though! The garden is huge though. And the house looks on to a village green with an old church and duckpond. It would seem like something out of a book if most of it wasn't dull, grey Victorian stone work! It was pretty much just a crumbling, damp, rotten ruin when we first moved there from London 17 years ago, but it's pretty beautiful now!

Actually just yesterday I talked about doing a PhD with my Shakespeare professor, and have decided to do one!

I think it's going to be on the medieval Robin Hood ballads - Renaissance Robin Hood plays, but I need to discuss it with another professor first.