00:00When I go in I just feel really calm. It's my little haven so I go in, I always
00:08take my morning coffee in and I have a planner I use every day so I write my
00:13plans down for the day and I like reading. I've got the radio in there, I like
00:18listening to the radio.
00:22We're in there with the lights on and you know you can look out and see that
00:27it's dark out here and you feel like you're sort of enclosed and it's warm if
00:33it's been in the sun in the day and sometimes during the day it's too hot.
00:37I'm a terrible hoarder anyway and collector so bit by bit I just kept
00:43adding things to it. I'd bought the furniture, I'd seen that and I thought
00:47that'll fit perfectly and then I'd got a table that I'd bought for somewhere else
00:53that I'd never really used. I thought that'll do and then I've just kept
00:56adding all sorts of things.
01:01It was all set up, put together and I loved it and then three weeks later we
01:08had a really big storm and it blew down so that was a real disaster. I could hear
01:14the storm and I came out at about five in the morning and I looked out and the
01:19whole dome was like a balloon and it was just blowing up like that and then coming
01:24down and blowing up coming down and then eventually it just went totally and it
01:30was right across the garden. They guarantee them up to a wind speed of I think 70
01:37miles per hour but the storms that we had in December they were about 90 so I was a
01:45bit worried the second time. The panels overlap on the outside so you don't get rain
01:52coming in. There's a little gap at the bottom which I could seal and you might
01:58get a little bit of rain running in along the grooves of the decking but it
02:02doesn't come right in. When I was a kid I used to love like dolls houses. My friend
02:11had a brick built Wendy house that her dad had built for her and she had all bits and
02:16pieces in there like a proper house and I just loved it and so then we had a summer house but
02:24it was wooden and it we'd had it 25 years and it was sort of falling to bits so that
02:29had been a bit of a sanctuary for me and I used to go in there and sit and read and write
02:32it and then I got this. We do get birds and I've sort of been encouraging them but we've
02:41got two big fat pigeons who keep trying to come and eat the food. I've got the
02:48thing on the side with food in and the pigeons get on the top and they're so
02:55big and they they try to sort of balance on the top and then get their beaks down
03:00but they're so unwieldy. When I go in I just feel really calm and I've had loads
03:08of people round it's called Wits End so I've said to come round to Wits End so
03:13I've had quite a few afternoons and evenings with friends round and it just
03:18is a nice vibe and it's got the lights that come on at night and yeah it's my
03:24little haven.
03:30so
03:32so
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