I grew up in the country but now I live in town due to a) having a townboy husband who has nightmares at the mere suggestion of moving house and b) the budgetary pressures produced by three sons. I trek into the city to visit the university, in attempts to finish my MSc and keep my reading up to date, and to buy bras. I long for a field so I can have my own horse, instead of borrowing my dad’s or my sister’s, or at the very least a bigger garden so I can keep chickens. I compensate for my lack of land and livestock by having a dog, two cats and two guinea pigs.