KEEPING IT SIMPLE. Words and images to document the ordinary, the detail and the minutiae of life.

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By Margaret Forster, from her book 'Diary of an Ordinary Woman'.

'My room is large but very nearly empty, with only a bed, one chair, a desk and a chest of drawers and a cupboard in it. The floor is tiled. The bedcovers are white, the chair has a white cover on it, the walls are white. There are no curtains or carpet. It echoes. I love it.'

I imagine terracotta floors and the white covers are a rough weave cotton or linen. I wish...