ABSTRACT

Natalie is a 26-year-old fashion designer living and working in London. Her design studio is located at Notting Hill Gate, where she spends part of her working week; for the rest of the week, she is regularly in Paris – attending to the business details of her fledgling fashion company. The routine air travel between London and Paris is something that now seems ‘normal’ to Natalie, after four years of flitting between cities. But the travel she undertakes to see her boyfriend Ross, who relocated to Finland last year, is more difficult for her to schedule. It is not the travel itself she finds difficult; rather it is finding the time to travel. Time is a resource that for Natalie is in short supply.