Boxes.....

Still unpacking, sorting, some emptying but more than not, searching, re-sealing and finding somewhere to put the newly re-sealed, re-numbered and sorted box.   And luckily , the dear SO has been putting up shelves in the second bedroom for the boxes, which gives us a greater carpet space to walk on and Hoover.

And with the newly created floor space, we were able to tidy up His collection of pictures, enabling me to get to my Welsh dresser and its cupboard space, only to find the space was completely taken up with sheets, pillow cases and duvet covers, plus a few odds and ends.

Now the dear man has a clever device to squash into plastic bags, extra material household items, which wonderfully reduces another pile of things into a better manageable size and shape and thus things are getting sorted and organised and tidied up....Phew!!

The downside of unpacking was the discovery of broken kitchen items, scratched furniture and the non-discovery, so far, of the family chess board which my son is particularly anxious for me to find.

On the upside, however, I've rediscovered a rather good leather satchel-handbag I'd forgotten owning, my son's first collection of stones found on an early geological field trip, and still bearing scraps of the identification labels he'd so laboriously attached, favourite books and an entire box of shoe polishes, dusters and Marigold gloves.  Plus two feather dusters.

Life is full of odd mixtures of things, isn't it?

And boxes cleared and re-settled certainly give ones spatial awareness a boost and a lift to the senses!
I'm terribly good at gathering stuff and clutter which, becoming important to me, is awfully difficult to clear.  And what I've found, when you do dispose of things, it's an almost sure-fire certainty that five minutes later, or sometimes days, you'll be absolutely needing the very thing you've only just thrown out.  And more spending!!!

Our Christmas tree is almost dressed, the presents are almost all wrapped up and my cards sent and all we have to do now is a little more food shopping and then we're ready for our Christmas festivities, which is just great.

I hope you too are ready for however and wherever you will be spending the Christmas season and, gathered together with family and friends, will enjoy a happy and peaceful few days.

Goodnight,

Daisy