A Bug's Life

Had a very productive morning and late-last-night. To sort the study I moved most things into the living room, which has gone through the stage of looking worse before it gets better, and is not an absolutely higgledy piggledy tip. Still some work to do, I warned K the new housemate that I was planning to do this while she was away this weekend and she said that was ok...

The ratio of fiction to non-fiction, oversize, read/unread books has changed and they don't fit on their allocated shelves any more so I did some reorganising. The main shelves are now all fiction (with room for the anthologies). Most non-fiction has moved upstairs, I'm interested to see if it makes a difference what I read if I engage the fiction/non-fiction choice first and go to the relevant shelves rather than get distracted from worthy science by shiny fiction. Reference books (including work) and craft books (including filmmaking) stay in the study. Art books have moved to the living room where one can lounge on a sofa or at the coffee table with them.

The stationery box: two Airmail letter pads, as I said on Twitter, is probably more than I'll need in my remaining lifetime. One I inherited from my Dad. I used to get through a pad a year when my peak fanzine activity overlapped with not really having much internet. And eight ordinary writing paper pads, though the cheap ones (from Woolworths!) can be used as general paper. I can get rid of a lot of odd sized envelopes, not sure best how yet, and have a stack of blank notelets/greeting cards for a charity shop.

I loaded up the car after lunch and went first to return some curtains and buy some pillows (all went smoothly), then via C to the tip recycling centre and a huffing half hour getting rid of old pillows, bookcase, mouldy chipboard, glass, deckchair, duvets, soil and white spirit. Yay for being able to lift half a bookcase over my head. The recycling centre was full of staff in orange jackets, looking a bit like angry hornets, but helpfully calling out things to people who were wandering about confused like "Broken glass is Hardcore" and "Duvets are Bulky Items" and "Put the whole deckchair in Wood". I got rid of loads of manky rubbish that had been sitting around in the garden for a few weeks getting wet and mouldy.

Reversed the car into the garage in one clean swoop at home, no back and forths today! Cleaned the boot out, reset the car seats, and wiped down half the garage shelves ready to hold new things. Looking good!

I think the only thing that needs to be done this weekend now is laundry and a shower, and packing for work, then I can spend the rest of the afternoon/evening setting up my new phone and maybe nibbling away at another couple of areas like Gift Bags & Wrapping Paper, or craft projects, and working out where they should go. It would not be polite of me to leave the living room in this cluttered state for too long.