The Silver Vixen was away with her coven for the day yesterday and the rain on the South Coast put an end to the Gorse Fox's ambitions regarding the concrete posts for the deck... Plan B was pushed into action and some preparatory work done for painting in the living room...
Urban-cub had come round and her view was that Plan B could wait, and Plan C (not that I have revealed the content of Plan C) should be postponed. She had a Plan D. "Dad, we're going to clear your study" and so it began. Big items was hauled out and left in the hallway, books and papers were shifted, computers moved, and piles of re-cyclable and non-recyclable rubbish accumulated. Things we found:
- Crossword books from 1974
- Birthday cards from a similar era
- Token ring cards
- Speaker cables
- Printer cables
- Ethernet cables
- Scart leads
- An old Wireless Access Point
- 5 old mobile phones
- old chargers
- 146 diskettes
- 90 CDROMs from the front of magazines
- Numerous certificates
- Numerouse award plaques
- Several unopened cases of wine
- Two hats
- 5 rain ponchos in their original wrapping
- A pair of binoculars
We also boxed up two cases of books for which we could find no shelf space, and a sealable plastic crate full of cables. We filled (to the brim) a tall wheelie bin with papers, magazines, old envelopes, and cardboard... and shredded six bags full of confidential waste.
Overall, theis exercise took about 6 hours and was a great shock to the Gorse Fox, who, you may gather is a bit of a hoarder!
[File under: Diary]
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