Bliss, bliss, triple bliss!!!
At last we’ve moved house and I am sitting at my WRITING DESK with music playing (yes alright, it’s Dire Straits but give the woman a break, she’s had a tough week…) and a tumbler of Sav Blank (note to self, unpack some wine glasses…)
Not completely unpacked yet but the basics are there – my Reading List books are in their own library bag beside the bed. And how have I prioritised? Let’s see: first grandpa’s books into his glass-fronted bookcase, because they are finite and easy to categorise – Dickens, Meredith, Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, Origin of Species, Statistical History of Dumfermline (huh?) etc.
Second is the writing desk, third the bathroom, fourth the clothes. Tomorrow the kitchen and eventually the rest of the books.
The writing desk is set up facing the front window, and will get the eastern morning sun. This is where I’ll be doing my writing before I face the dramas of my working day, and I can feel those juices tricking already. I will array my shells from the Bribie beach along the window sill and they will take me straight back to that freedom. If I get stuck I will sniff them and smell the sea they were washed in.
If only I can remember which box I packed them in…
Ah well, it’s a start!
Posted by Graham on May 30, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Sounds great Janette. As for sav blank in a tumbler, it is wonderfully Continental – only posh folk drink it in wine glasses.
And I hope you’ve been reading grandpa’s books. Origin of Species was one of the most profound and moving reads I’ve had in decades (see my other blog – http://graywave.blogspot.com/2006/09/on-origin-of-species.html )
Cheers,
Graham.
Posted by janettedalgliesh on May 30, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hmmm, blush to confess I haven’t started on reading grandpa’s books. Will check out Origin (also have Descent of Man) but I draw the line at reading a history of British Guinea (1922) or the Dunfermline treatise.
Happily wine tastes just as good, if not better, in a tumbler.
Posted by Jo A on May 31, 2008 at 8:05 am
Oh, a writing desk in the morning sun! Oh, Sav Blanc! Oh, shells from Bribie!
Sounds just lovely.
Posted by Jeremy Gordon on June 3, 2008 at 3:21 pm
How much should I shell out for one of them shells?
Nice set up, Janette. Strangely enough, a square of yellow about a foot long on the side is actually the best colour to look at when needing creative inspiration… can’t remember where I heard that though…….
Jez
Posted by MK on September 28, 2008 at 11:29 am
Hm…must say I love the title “A Room of My Own”, what a spledid idea indeed