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My Life In Boxes!
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Three boxes. that's it, all we have left now everything else has been sold. given away or thrown in a skip. Not a lot to show for twenty three years together is it. In reality however, how much 'stuff' does one realistically need in this World.
Looking back to our days living in Southampton, the house in which we lived was crammed to the rafters with 'things,' none of which we really needed to survive, just an accumulation of items that cluttered up our lives. In many respects material possessions only ground us, preventing us from doing many things we would have otherwise done. Both of us are travellers at heart and can now see more of the places we wanted to visit, twenty or so years ago.
Looking back to our days living in Southampton, the house in which we lived was crammed to the rafters with 'things,' none of which we really needed to survive, just an accumulation of items that cluttered up our lives. In many respects material possessions only ground us, preventing us from doing many things we would have otherwise done. Both of us are travellers at heart and can now see more of the places we wanted to visit, twenty or so years ago.
We arrive in the UK on 25 May; I am trying to organise seeing as many people as I can. On Friday 25th May, we will be going to my old local pub the 'Giddy Bridge;' I used to work just over the road from it and have many happy memories there. It's fitting to spend a few hours there, before moving on to Portsmouth to stay with my Aunty for a short while. If you are about on that day, do feel free to pop along, it will be good to see you!
I've got a tonne of rubbish to get to the bins, after a lifetime of collecting. In the early 2000s, I used to build computers and have boxes and boxes of wires and hard drives; all of these items have to be disposed of. To be honest I should have thrown them away before I came to Spain, but as a professional hoarder, preferred to take them with me.
Darrell has been sorting out the last of the clothes this afternoon, bagging up jackets and jeans to go to the charity shop; in four days by the end of the month everything should be complete and we can finally enjoy our last few weeks living in Spain, before we return to the UK.
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