Tima begged to come in from the field yesterday so last night she had the barn corridors to sleep in. It rained all day yesterday. And was cold and blowey. (Is that a word?) And by dinner time she had had quite enough of her little tin shed which is very dry but probably quite noisy in the rain. I need to check the diary and see when she is allowed back in with Tane (the kunekune boar) but for last night they slept on either side of his gate in the barn.
The cows do not care about the rain. They are the essence of stoic. But for me I felt hemmed back in especially after that tease of a sunny day yesterday. 
So I thought we might have a photographic event. A challenge. Another ‘getting to know you’ The Fellowship Event. To cheer ourselves up until it gets warm. It will be called Where I write. Do you remember a few years ago when we all showed each other where we wrote or sewed or worked. Corners of lounges. Desks in home offices. The kitchen table. Your favourite chair. The train. Your desk at work. All kinds of lovely shots of where you work – it is fun to be able to see where a person is when they are writing to you.
(And of course you do Not HAVE to do this. It is just a wee bit of fun. No pressure at all. We are The Fellowship. We are gentle with each other always.)
So, if you want to join in and show us your work space, I propose that if you have a Blog or a Facebook page or even Twitter or Instagram; POST a shot of where you work with a link to my blog so we can come along and look. Even leave the link in my comments if you like just to be sure we get a chance to visit. You may even want to challenge your own readers to do the same. Just for fun.
If you do not have a platform and would like to join in send me an email and I can post your image on my blog.
And here is the kicker. NO TIDYING UP your writing area! Just as it is. And just to prove that this can be done here is where I write. 
My desk moves around the house, especially in Spring and this year it has migrated into the Store Room. My favourite chair has been abandoned to the winter and this is where I will write and have deep and meaningful discussions with my people for the summer. I have only just begun to fill this room.( This is a new area – I have taken over an under-used bedroom right next to the kitchen and put up shelves, next I am going to knock a hole through the wall of the existing teensy tiny pantry in my teensy tiny kitchen, so we have a butler style doorway joining the kitchen to the storeroom. Now I can see what I have and what I need and buy in bulk when there are sales. It is always cooler and all the produce from the gardens can be stored here. Much more suited to country living and the numbers we feed in the summer. It is filing up fast. And perfect for a cooks desk.)
I know you are thinking why not use the basement to store produce but I hate the basement it floods at the drop of a hat and anything stored down there goes mouldy. Best to keep goods up here in the dry.
So, what do you think? Do you want to show us where you write?
I am looking forward to this!
Much love
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
67 responses to “Where do you write?”
I was sitting up in bed when I read your post this morning, but wanted to be part of the fun, So here is my entry as you requested: http://grannymar.com/2016/04/11/an-answer-for-celi/
Another grey and wet day here and I am grounded by a streaming head cold – first in years, so I was glad of the distraction. Now back to the throw, only fourteen rows to the finish line and then I will decide on a border.
What a fun challenge. Your writing space looks cosy and warm.
well we are in Mexico this week- so I will show all of you where I usually write and then where I am writing this week! very fun idea! I will have posted this on my blog within the next few days…cheers! ( I’ll let you know the link via your email?)
Always love to get involved in a ‘community event at the kitchensgarden’! Here is where I write. https://meadowmice.net/2016/04/11/where-do-you-write/
I love your butlers pantry – writers nook. I turned our hallway linen cupboard into a useful pantry. I like to be in the middle of the show rather than tucked away so where I write is either in our backroom which although at the back of the house is a throughway, or on the verandah. This is the post I did just after we moved https://elladeewords.wordpress.com/2016/01/17/in-my-studio-aka-the-backroom/ and an Instagram pic of the verandah https://www.instagram.com/p/BBtJW4FRHFQ/.
I love having a peek into people’s spaces – this is a lovely idea to bring us all together 🙂
Celi, could you pls have a look for my earlier comment in your spam folder… I included 2 links; to a recent post and an Instagram pic. Thnx ☺
OK I will go and look now! c
Thank you ☺ We’re about running errands today but I have the Tablet with me – it’s great popping around and putting spaces to the Fellowship.
It took me most of the day to get back here but I got the post written. Too many interruptions today. https://insearchofitall.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/where-i-write/
I didn’t know how to add a real link here so it will be copy and paste. I have so much to learn.
My post will be up tomorrow. Thanks for the challenge!
Linda
Boringly, I write anywhere and everywhere. This is good, 10 minutes from home. I often write here in my car, overlooking the ocean and valleys: https://belasbrightideas.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/img_0456.jpg
And by the way, Ms. C, this is quotable. As wise as Zen, “The cows do not care about the rain. They are the essence of stoic. ”
xoxo ❤
Beautiful photo, but wrong one and not mine! We have no lights in the distance. Sorry, here ’tis: https://belasbrightideas.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/2012-05-04-10-11-00.jpg
I prefer this photo, more like our scenery but with sunshine! 😉
Oh my goodness!!! You live in heaven!
Haha, thank you. We do, yes 😀
You guys have really nice, tidy and well thought out workplaces! Considered what I graduated as a long time ago, mine is pretty shameful, but I love to sit there. Be prepared, this is reality. Not the dreamspace.
Ops, never done this before. Here is the right link. Please remove the other link. https://publicpollen.wordpress.com/
Wonderful idea . . .don’t have a camera and have not yet worked out how to work the one on my new smartphone but we’ll try in a day or two when I hope to have time to ‘wipe my nose’ so to speak! I have turned the so-called ‘second bedroom’ in my cottage into a library and have a large computer desk for my desktop . . . . books and files on every surface but I do know where each item is 😀 !! Fulltime work, fulltime studies, pretty fulltime panel and committee work . . . all takes room!
My writing space needs some work….
http://thedancingdonkey.blogspot.com/2016/04/where-do-i-write.html
FAaaaaaaaaaaaBULOUS.
OOO, those cows thrill me!
How fun it must be to have them for inspiration!!
I have had a lovely time poking around everyone’s writing spaces today. Alas, I will not be able to post one because I don’t have a cell phone and my digital camera gave up the ghost about a year ago. Suffice it to say that I have a table set up in an over-sized walk-in closet that I use for my computer and, aside from the usually neatly hung clothes, I am somewhat messy. But it leaves my tiny sitting room tidy and my even tinier bedroom neat… so my one messy place I live with until I can no longer stand it and go through a clean-out now and then.
Your storeroom looks perfect and I am greatly admiring your big bright window. ~ Mame 🙂
Just looked at “publicpollen”‘s photo… and it could be mistaken for mine… I love it! … lol