With thrips and ukuleles, please.

 You’ve won a month-long, all-expenses-paid writing retreat. Where would you go and why?
By Catriona.
I'm not much of a one for writing retreats. My ordinary life is more like a retreat than most retreats I've ever considered. I live in a house in the country. It's empty all day. A man who can cook comes in at six . . .
But in 2015 I did go on an accidental writing retreat for a week and I was at least three weeks off being sick of it when I had to leave.
The man who cooks was committed to a...