Thank goodness for Argos! After yesterday's post, I started to have a good look around the upstairs of the house for an appropriate workspace. I ruled out the 'spare' bedroom pretty much straight away: it's only 2mx3m, most of which is taken up by an L-shaped built-in bed and wardrobe. Besides it's south facing and gets very warm in the summer. Plus the dog has adopted as her room, so it smells of dog farts. We've had a couple of plastic crates full of books - untouched - adjacent the door in our bedroom since we had the extension built nine years ago. I got the tape measure and determined that there was enough of a gap for a compact computer desk if I moved the crates elsewhere. Argos had a suitably cheap self-assemble jobby for a mere £29.99 that fitted perfectly, so I bought it and bolted it together once the children had gone to bed. Success! I redistributed the books and utilised the crates for recycling receptacles and hauled the finished desk upstairs. I'm rather pleased - our bedroom is north-facing and so always stays cool, is away from the main road and thus quiet, and has a phone point in it. True, my books are on the ground floor directly beneath, but the husband suggested I could rig up some sort of basket on a pulley and let it down (with a request note) from our window for a child to fill with either books or possibly chocolate.....I've spent a couple of hours up there working on the laptop this afternoon and managed to get about six hundred words down which is quite as much as I would have hoped to achieve on a 'good' day.
Virginia Woolf was absolutely right when she identified that women need a room of their own in order to write successfully.
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