One of the problems about a job that involves a 24/7 response is that sometimes it does occasionally mean working outside the normal Monday to Friday 9-5. Today was one of those days. 5 am (the other 5) on Sunday morning and just finished work. Looking forward to sleep – so this will be short.
Today has been a spring clean day. My house has four loft areas and one of them is harder to use than others, so this is the first time I have ventured in for a couple of years. There were things I discovered that I thought I had thrown away ages ago. It left me questioning why I still had them.
It isn’t hoarding, I just hate the idea of throwing away something that still has a usable life. And to be honest a couple of the things I found are now back in service. Over the past few years I have been getting more and more concerned by our disposable society. I used to live beside a 90+ year old woman in Vienna who never used a litter bin – she had lived through hard times and had learned not to throw anything away that could be used.
So I am using this lockdown to explore how much re-purposing I can use to cover for the closure of some of the shops. I like the idea of using bottles as propagators for plants. I’m not sure the designs I have seen are the best, so next week I’ll try to make a couple of different designs. We need to change how we live.
And surprise, surprise, not only did I find some toilet paper – but I also found some hand sanitizer. You might wonder why I have stuff like that in long term storage – I had a small camping bag that had gone in to store without being emptied fully. So another two days toilet paper supply obtained…
Unfortunately I discovered why I don’t use that loft much. Even small head wounds bleed a lot. Putting on a plaster in a mirror is an interesting skill to have.