Monday Inspiration: A Chair of My Own

Many of you will be familiar with Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay, A Room of One's Own, which talks about the need for women to have money and a room of their own if they are to write fiction. As we in the UK enter our seventh week of lockdown, I suggest that the 21st century pandemic update, which applies equally to women and men, is simply that everyone must be entitled to a chair of their own if they are to get through the days.

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With the whole family at home now bagging a whole room might be an impossibility, but laying claim to a single chair might be doable. In this house, after 25 years together we are rigid about which side of the bed we sleep on, we habitually sit on the same ends of the sofa to watch tv and at the same place at the kitchen table, but all other chairs are up for grabs.