moving home

Packing one's belongings into boxes is a depressing business.  Firstly, you realise how much crap you have and two you realise no one else wants it.  Been going to car boot sales in  the hope of offloading some of it for cash.  Vain hope indeed, people have much better taste than I thought.  I've discovered the ultimate insult is when you forget to close your garage door all night and all your belongings carefully stored there are not stolen.   Moving house reminds you of what you have not done with the passing years, moving country reminds you it pays to travel light.  Both useful things to be reminded of at any stage of life.