Recession, shmecession

(Photo courtesy of http://www.belltent.co.uk/)

I'm so excited. I've just spent the day with Vicky Smallholder and we've hatched a much more exciting plan than getting a £120k loan for a barn conversion. Who needs 29.4% interest rates when you've got that amount of sheer creative genius a landrover ride away? The woman deserves a TV programme.

As Freud said, "Every crisis is potentially a stimulus to the positive side of the personality and an opportunity to start afresh." So instead of eight bedrooms, think eight bell tents nestling under the plum trees in the paddock with rugs of reindeer hide and beds of local feathers, woodstoves by day and firepits by night, and our retreaters writing by the light of the moon on ancient wooden tables discarded from old Sussex farmhouses.

They do say that the summer will be hot this year too.