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A Room to Write or A Hut of Own’s Own
 By Louise Allen Virginia Woolf famously said that for a woman to write she needed a room of her own. I’ve been writing in the spare room for years, although I do have a desk and bookshelves of my own, and I’ve been quite happy with that. Even my uninspiring view of an inside wall allows me space to stick up pictures of the hero of the moment (he’s called Quinn and he’s gorgeous), family trees and endless Post-Its. But we’ll be moving to our cottage in Norfolk next year and the realisation that not only is it smaller, but it is stuffed with books already, has made me panic - would I end up writing on top of piles of boxes I’ve no room to unpack? So I decided I needed a room of my own - a garden room in fact. It was to have insulation and heating and as much shelving as I could cram in, plus the all-important desk and a pinboard for heroes’ pictures. As the builders put it up I tried out a series of names for it - the Library, the Scriptorium, The Studio. The builders and my husband laughed and called it The Hut and that, I’m afraid, has stuck. We put the shelving up this weekend and I have yards of gorgeous historic toile with pictures of George III’s family on it to make curtains and blinds out of. All it needs now is the electricians to give me heat and light - and they are off wiring up the local Christmas extravaganza at the Steam Engine Museum. My pleas that I will get frost bite if I try and write in there now fall on deaf ears as they wrestle with making Rudolph’s nose light up and making the stars stay on top of the trees. But the view is gorgeous - the garden, a field and the local church and some flint cottages. Will I ever get any writing done? Will the electricians ever come back? Can I remember how to make Roman blinds? And if it snows, will I be cut off for days? Watch this space - I’ll take a picture as soon as it is finished and has some books in it! Tags: Louise Allen, Norfolk, Virginia Woolf One Response to “A Room to Write or A Hut of Own’s Own”Leave a Comment |
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November 28th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
It sounds wonderful. I would love to have a big room with built in bookcases with doors on them so I could have all my books put away and they wouldn’t get all dusty.