I’ve got cabin fever. And not only the New Year, need-to-stop-eating-and-start-moving kind. I’ve got cabin fever because that’s where I’d really like to be right now. In a cabin. Wooden, obviously. In a clearing in the middle of a forest, maybe. A lake would be nice, perhaps with a rickety little jetty. Door propped open with a stack of books, sheepskin over a chair on the porch, antlers on the sparsely decorated walls.
Well of course this is what I want. Not because I am remotely adventurous or quirky but because I am hopelessly, helplessly enslaved by fashion, and a log cabin is what everyone wants right now. Cabin Porn, the popular Tumblr documenting wilderness living is now a cult book. The sexiest character in the second series of The Affair on Sky Atlantic was Noah and Alison’s wooden lakeside retreat, all homely quilting on a mezzanine bed, and a jetty to dive from.
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