Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label packing. Show all posts

Friday 10 August 2012

Packing, moving, cracking up




Things that go into boxes are not so bad.  There is a kind of ordering of all the chaos of one's life that is strangely productive.  The bit I hate is when you have packed the hundredth box and you walk into an almost empty room and know there is at least another twenty boxfuls there.   Worse still are all the things that don't belong to any box, can't be dumped, sold or given away.  You end up grabbing such oddments and throwing them into a pile muttering, where the hell do you go? I am rapidly resembling a headless chicken racing round in circles with only 5 days to get out of this house.  If you were me you would not be wasting time writing a blog.  On that note I better stop.  This moving country thing is certainly up there with the divorce, bereavement and job change in terms of stress!  I promise myself not to accumulate so much junk in future.  There will be silence from me for a while, for obvious reasons.  The silence of despair!

Wednesday 25 July 2012

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.