Main content
‘It’s amazing what you can fit in to 28 square meters’
78-year-old Val, the 'lady in the lodge', disillusioned by increasing rent, has moved into a 28 square meter log cabin built in her son's suburban back garden. She tells Jane Garvey what it's like to live in a place that takes 'cosy' to the extreme.
Duration:
Featured in...
![]()
Listen—Woman's Hour
Catch up with the best from Woman's Hour here.
More clips from Munira Ahmed, Naomie Harris, Vanessa Bell and 'the Lady in the Lodge'
![]()
Why has Munira Ahmed become the face of protests against Trump?
Duration: 03:07
More clips from Woman's Hour
![]()
'My sense of reality completely broke down'
Duration: 01:03
![]()
Would you like to grow older in a community of other women?
Duration: 05:14
![]()
Natalie Cassidy: 'My heart is in elderly care'
Duration: 01:16
![]()
'We can all do so much more than we believe'
Duration: 01:01
