A very simple story no.23

EDITOR LISA SYKES #mysimplething

Who hasn’t pretended for a week or a weekend that they live somewhere else? Whether it’s in a cottage in the Shropshire hills, a cabin on Stockholm’s archipelago or, as I did, above, in a Parisian garret, we find our nest of choice then mentally move in. How would my new life work here? What would I do to make the place mine? These fantasy moves have to be treated with caution; a holiday is not the same as real life. But they can help us appreciate what we have. On our return, the warm welcome of our stuff goes a long way to our accepting that maybe our nest is not as glamorous/minimal/well-located as we’d like. But it is home. And there’s no place quite like it.…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, September 2016 - Issue 51

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