Hello again everyone, thank you to pickle, Filo and Marg and a warm welcome too to Filo.
Glad you lived to tell the tale, Marg - they do not sound nice at all! It was moths for me yesterday. For example, one just sauntered across the top of the new freezer right next to where I was cutting bread for soup with my friend, bold as brass as if it owned the place, and sat down for a little rest as if it didn't have a care in the world. I think generations of moths are just used to having the run of the place. They have occupied and claimed the space, as pickle would say. 
Speaking of pickle - fear not, I think you have done quite well to get as far as last September! You are in good company as I see there are some real rebels on this thread - not reading the whole of thread one, posting on thread two before thread one was completely full - completely riotous behaviour, basically, and we're all doomed. Luckily, I quite like rebels.
My condolences on the loss of your father, pickle. 
The idea for the skin cream sounds like a good one if you are ready to let go of it now. I think you are spot on about charity shops and finding new homes for other things, as far as is possible. A lot of things have gone to the nearest charity shop - particularly, I seem to remember, when I cleared a smaller bedroom for my friend to move into - and also a food bank. Some of those things could definitely have been sold - including a musical instrument - but I had to weigh up the time and trouble it would have taken to do that. It was far better - and easier and quicker - to donate them all to charity, let the people the charity help benefit from the sales and let the purchasers have the use and the pleasure from them. Luckily, my friend is of the same mind and leaves me to it now unless I judge that I need to check with him. There are many more things though that can't be donated easily or at all, because of dust, damp, insects and - sorry to say - expiry dates. I started off thinking, I'll put that to one side as someone will use that or I'll bag those up and dust or wash them at a later date, but experience and posters on this thread have helped me to be much better at putting those things straight into the rubbish or recycling bag. They have served their purpose or not here for my friend, the time and space - physical space and head space - is more important, and the elephant - or mammoth, as Filo would say - here I am eating is just too big - especially on top of my other commitments in life - to faff around to that extent. See herd, I do listen - thank you.
About the music for the kitchen, Marg and pickle - I know he wouldn't want an Alexa or anything like that. As good as you make it sound, Marg (!), he would find it intrusive and be a little suspicious of it too. A digital radio sounds like a good idea but he would still like to be able to play his CDs and vinyl too - he has plenty already and can't really listen to them easily. They would give him a lot of pleasure so I don't intend to suggest he get rid of them, although I think he might thin them out a little bit once we've got them all together - which is perfectly fine. I bought him a portable record player as a Christmas or birthday gift a while ago and perhaps when the kitchen is finished he could use it there sometimes, so I wonder if a compact digital radio/CD player combined would be the thing? Any thoughts, anyone?
Well done on your garage work, Filo. Yes, there are very definitely other rooms still to do! I don't like to think of them because I find it too overwhelming - I find it wise to keep my blinkers on. If you are forcing me, after the kitchen and a quick redo of the bathroom and my friend's temporary bedroom, then the next priorities will be the room-sized hall, the sitting room and my friend's bedroom. After that, I refuse to contemplate and you can't make me!
And on that note, I'd better stop drinking tea and get a wriggle on.
Still no update, I know.