Boxes.
Ok it has been declutter time at casa del J and I am now surrounded by boxes. Vic and I have decided to put the flat on the market in April and so we have started sorting stuff (this may be a mistake). This is in a vain attempt to shrink the amount of stuff we have about the house to a sensible size and to also bring it within the guide lines of EU guides for landfill sites.
This does however mean I have had to venture into THE LOFT, Imagine a cross between Ali baba's cave and explosion in a junk shop and you have a vague likeness of our loft. It's not that it's untidy it is just that vic and I are both horders and have a vast quantity of crap.

Anyway after dragging boxes out of the loft yesterday we proceeded to start sorting them which consists of me pulling an item out of the box, deciding if I want to keep it, asking vic if she wants to keep it, listening to the history of the item (if it is hers) and then packing it back into another box. Well after a day of this I am now surrounded by boxes in varying degrees of packedness (don't know if that's a word) and still have a shit load more to pull out of the loft (I can see I am still going to be doing this next January).

During this sort I did however come across some interesting items, My old "stay puffed" marshmallow man (ghostbusters) thermos, two beautiful diaries of travels written in 1935 (I may post some entry's), My photos of me in India (I was 7, I may post some at some point), Vic's Rubber (eraser) collection (she has hundreds, we thought it was lost in the great move from Cornwall 7 years ago), and some stuff that we have decided is going to auction. So all in all a rather productive day, It has also made me wonder what other things may be hiding up there, I will keep you informed.



- posted by J @ 18:42