p.

8.

Sunday - 1 March. I was thinking yesterday about our new
home - somewhere in Yorkshire. You know how verandah
conscious I have always been - & so our new house must
have verandahs, both downstairs & up. I think that to
have our bedroom windows opening onto a verandah
would be lovely. & on fine nights we could just
push our bed out & sleep in the open air - & the
same from Maxie's room. And the roof of the
house would be flat, or partly flat, & containing
a studio for you. with long windows opening out onto
the flat part, so that you could
work outside on fine days.

[Drawing of a home laid out as described: open air, studio, verandah, Bedroom, and verandah.]

The plan on the left has nothing
to do with scales or architecture &
does not show the rest of the
house. It is just to illustrate
what I mean.

What do you think, darling?

It is not supposed to be a big house
- the only good sized rooms will be
the lounge & our bedroom - a smaller
one for Maxie - another room for
a maid. Two little rooms for guests. The garden
will be just big enough to have a lawn of [illegible],
some flowers, & some vegetables. And I have a
hope that there will be some trees around -
at least facing our bedroom verandah, so that
we can be outside & not have to worry about