This is exercise 2 in chromatic’s excellent Write your life exercise. Home. Four letters. Easy to understand. Hard to pin down. If we take home as being “The place where one sleeps”, then home is a two bedroomed first floor Tyneside flat. If you are fortunate enough to know Tyneside well, then I’ve just told you a great deal about where I live; you can probably sketch the floorplan, especially if I tell you that there’s the usual extension at the back with a kitchen and bathroom in it.