Today I had to be at the house by 8.30 to let a locksmith in. We can now get out of the back door, to be engulfed by brambles. I spent half an hour hacking at the jungle to make a path to the back gate.
Another full day working in the computer room. Another 8 bags of paper and plastic cases. Another 480 cassette tapes and more floppy disks than I can count (there are still another 2 shelves of disk boxes to go at!
32 A5 box files emptied of assorted instruction manuals, receipts and program CDs plus at least half a dozen A4 ring binders full of papers.
Notable finds include a photo of a group including Pa in his last year at school (1953) and a photo of Grandpa's school cadet corps (1918), plus Pa's photo album from school age to graduation. The last few pages have groups including Ma. I also found a cut throat razor, but I don't know which of my ancestors it belonged to (most likely my great grandfather, but there's no inscription on it).
Apart from the stuff for the tip, we have boxes for "Important family stuff", "Keep", "Charity Shop", "Sell" and "Other". The charity boxes are multiplying and the "Other" box has collected about 2 dozen pairs of assorted reading glasses. I think there must be a pair on just about every horizontal surface in the house! There's enough stationery to open a fairly large store and we could go into competition with the Charity Christmas Card shop this year.
I haven't moved from a room approx 10'x 7' for the last 2 days, but there's still at least another half day to do tomorrow before I go back home. I should be training tomorrow night, but I don't know if I'll have the energy!
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Date: 2017-08-29 10:42 pm (UTC)Another full day working in the computer room. Another 8 bags of paper and plastic cases. Another 480 cassette tapes and more floppy disks than I can count (there are still another 2 shelves of disk boxes to go at!
32 A5 box files emptied of assorted instruction manuals, receipts and program CDs plus at least half a dozen A4 ring binders full of papers.
Notable finds include a photo of a group including Pa in his last year at school (1953) and a photo of Grandpa's school cadet corps (1918), plus Pa's photo album from school age to graduation. The last few pages have groups including Ma. I also found a cut throat razor, but I don't know which of my ancestors it belonged to (most likely my great grandfather, but there's no inscription on it).
Apart from the stuff for the tip, we have boxes for "Important family stuff", "Keep", "Charity Shop", "Sell" and "Other". The charity boxes are multiplying and the "Other" box has collected about 2 dozen pairs of assorted reading glasses. I think there must be a pair on just about every horizontal surface in the house! There's enough stationery to open a fairly large store and we could go into competition with the Charity Christmas Card shop this year.
I haven't moved from a room approx 10'x 7' for the last 2 days, but there's still at least another half day to do tomorrow before I go back home. I should be training tomorrow night, but I don't know if I'll have the energy!