Take chocolate, slippers and a big scarf. Treat your time there as if it's the only time you can get work done between now and Easter. Get some exercise every day. When asked what you're working on, write down what you blurt out to strangers because you might not have articulated it before.

If there is shout it loud. Thousands of us in the same position as you.

I like that! I shall copy that for next year.

Apropos of that, can the Sylvia Townsend Warner Society interest you in their Lolly Willowes centenary conference?
townsendwarner.com/the-society/...