Some people choose to exercise before work. They like to start the day energised by the challenge of personal bests, and the sense of virtuousness that comes from having tried where others have not.
I, too, like that – but I’d prefer not to leave my house. Instead, I get my fix facing two herculean challenges. First, trying to find the one piece of black clothing I want to wear in my drawer of mainly black clothing, and second, trying to find a pair of shoes in the three-layer-deep shoe stack that lives beneath the clothes rail.
Both obstacles require resolve, cunning and fearlessness. After all, how do you solve a problem like needing two hands to dig through the pile, but also one to hold an iPhone flashlight?
Donning clothes doesn’t have to be a challenge, though. It wouldn’t be if I lived in this sprawling four-bed in Ely, Cambridgeshire. It’s pricey, at £785,000, but so fashion-forward it could double as a catwalk, with three dedicated dressing spaces: a walk-in wardrobe, a walk-through dressing room and a boot room (whose boots are presumably made for walking).
Here, shoes aren’t an organisational nightmare but a display opportunity. Finding a needle in a haystack might be a talent; but who needs talent when you have a walk-in wardrobe?
