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Are you all nursing hangovers or just clearing up the post Christmas mess?

How about Knockers, as well?

Love the Imperial War Museum. Used to go there a lot when we were living in London as it was just down the road from us.

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Huffy
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Dukes
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I will do my 6-8 shift again. Left out the 'f' the first time. Have come over all red and hot.

I never want to see another packing box ever again.......
I have unearthed stuff I never even knew I had.

Knackers?

Knick-knacks

Dukes
knives, knees, knuckles, knight, knave knapsack, knead, knickerbocker, knob, knockout, knoll, knot, know...... Can you tell I am a Primary School teacher?

I think I will book in the name of Tilly Mint, (leaving out the big, though it is an accurate description of my gunt ATM) when the DC are watching the TV and can't hear the call

We saw Gok Wan in a pub in Kennington today (he was sitting in the window with friends, we were on way to Imperial War Museum)...

I should have nipped in and asked him to the convention, really. As it was DD1 admired his jumper (as we sauntered past repeatedly a few times).

You saw Gok in Kennington?

The best we managed when we lived there was Ann Widdecombe and Roger Royle. Ann Widdecombe used to eat at the Kennington Tandoori rather than Gandhi's "because the portions are bigger" according to an article they had displayed in the window from the South London Press.

Kennington? Are you sure you don't really mean that pub in Vauxhall?
ANd how could you have walked by several times and not have invited him to our crepeys night out??????????

Who is Roger Royle. Not that man on Corrie?

No, he's a celebrity vicar (he writes/used to write for Woman's Weekly). Oooh, talking of pubs, our barmaid in the pub in Cleaver Square was Hayley in Corrie. That is, she pulled pints there before she became Hayley.

Well done on the packing Blackduck - it is such a chore. We cleared out our crawl space that pretends to be a loft over the holidays and threw out a lot of crap, but there's still acres of stuff in this house - we have far too much. The thought of packing it bring me out in hives.

Pressed send too soon!

I have however got to grips with a pile of stuff I have been intending to ebay for months - should have done it before Christmas really, but at least I have taken all the pics, weighed them for postage and listed a bunch of it. Will do the rest tonight. [smug emoticon]

Wilbur how's your house move going? We haven't even got near the attic or the understairs yet - skip is ordered for the weekend......
I could open a pub with the number of glasses I have, and could fit out a medium sized B&B with bed linen......

Our move is on hold, blackduck, as our buyers lost the buyer for their house. I think they are planning to go back on the market and we are just debating about whether to do the same. They still want to buy but I'm not sure their house will sell very easily so maybe we should look for other folk as well. If the house we want sells in the meantime then so be it. We're only interested in that one house, and won't move otherwise.

Do you have a date for your actual move yet Blackduck? I do not envy you the packing, although you might uncover all sorts of things that you thought were lost forever.

Wilbur - good luck with finding another buyer. And well done on your ebaying.

Dukes, I am bringing that book for you on the 20th! Unless you have already bought it, of course.

Wilbur, bad news about your house. You seem soooo chilled, I'm impressed.

I have got the eBay bug too; it is my New Year's Resolution. I just joined an eBay support thread which I'm hoping will keep me motivated. I used to sell loads, but just haven't had time since we moved here (and we no longer have the motivation of a tiny, overflowing loft).

Having said that, I joined a similar thread last year, but only got as far as the photographs...... Anyway, 17 items listed, and I'm planning a reconnaissance mission to the darkest recesses of the loft this week to see what other pointless crap precious treasures I can dredge up.

Meanwhile, DH is showing worrying signs of evolving into one of those hoarding loonies, and is slowly filling the shed with offcuts of MDF, random ironmongery, bits of carpet and the like. We had a small bonfire at the weekend, after our 14ft trampoline went on a wrecking spree in the wind and took out a fence and clematis arch (both were on borrowed time, tbh), so while DH wasn't looking I sneaked some of his stash onto the fire. Very satisfying.....

Thanks Huffy! Have you read 'A Short History of Tractors In Ukranian' by Marina Lewicka? I could bring it in return (is only novely in pile I just glanced at that I can guarantee is mine to swap, rest could end up being mums) but if you've read I'll look further! Did briefly have Nora Ephron's 'I feel bad about my neck' but it wasn't brill and I chazza shopped it half way through.

Well done on the sneaky fire move CV. Very bold. I hurled out acres of hubtat before we had the loft done. I will never be forgiven (but it was worth it!)

I loved Marina Lewicka's "We Are All Made of Glue." The mad old woman in it was SO like my great grandmother. I laughed like a drain.

My DH hoards. Fortunately - for me, but not his DB - most of it is in his DB's loft in UK. He has a small telephone exchange there (don't ask), lots of art deco tea cups, piles and piles of papers, a pushbike (in bits), a motorbike (ditto), and 1000s of music papers from the 1970s and 1980s "which will be worth something one day." We also have a lot of "art" here - about 200 pictures which need framing, and we have had five pictures propped up against the wall in our bedroom for the past two years, as they have not made it to the wall.

Dukes, I have read the Tractors book, but no worries about return swappsies. It's just good not to have JShilling gathering dust here, as I don't think anyone else in this house will be wanting to read it anytime soon. I got that Nora Ephron book too - and was similarly underwhelmed, even though I also don't like what has happened to my neck . Really, I should make a NY's res to keep away from Amazon and use my local library while we still have it. After all, they have an online ordering service these days and then you just go in to collect the books. This house does not need any more books - talking about clutter.

DH is a hoarding loony, but he keeps his hoards of wood and old boxes, wires, strange old power tools etc etc in the garage. It is not allowed in the house - except for the corner of the office where he keeps his vast stock of cables and old bits of computer (several machines have gone there to die and then been cannibalised). And I have 2 sheds in which he is not allowed to put anything. He grumbles about this, but the garage is pretty damn big. You could fit a big car and a trailer in there if it wasn't full of Stuff. He has, I have to admit, managed to miraculously fix certain things around the house through his salvage hobby, so I guess he's allowed to keep what fits in the garage.

Out of interest, how can I have got so very very fat in just two weeks of-solideating-?

Oh god so glad not just us... We double bank books (I piled a load for charity this weekend and dp culled 50% on the grounds he hasn't read them yet... Bearing in mind he ONLY reads on holiday we have enough books until he is about 300....)
We have loads of art, unframed, and on top of the linen for a medium sized B&B I could supply the cutlery too.

Actually this is VERY theraputic......
And at least if I pack we don't get side tracked by reading every book, putting records on the linnsondeck (spell) etc.. I have a kind of scorched earth policy - it's in a box or gone.........

MI sorry no answer to that question.....I am hoping the stress of moving will cut a few pounds (stone).......it won't.......

I don't understand how we have so many books. I hardly ever buy books. Not new ones, anyway. Charity shop books don't count as books, surely? They're donations.