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Paul Whybrow

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We've touched on the places where we write in old threads. This article on writers' boltholes, almost makes me appreciate the relative luxury of my petrol-station garret.

The boltholes where literary greats wrote masterpieces | Daily Mail Online

I've visited George Bernard Shaw's home at Ayot Saint Lawrence in Hertfordshire. The house itself is quite the most ascetic living space I've seen, kept as the Shaws lived it's a real bare bones existence with no fripperies or fancy decor.

The writing hut is situated at a bottom of a steeply sloping lawn, that must have tried GBS's kneecaps to climb in old age. What none of the regularly published photographs show about the hut, is that while it can be rotated on a turntable to follow the warmth and light of the sun, it could also be turned 180 degrees away from the house to face a boundary hedge. With the leaves closely pressed to the window panes, GBS could shut the world out!
 
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