Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

taxi73

Some people have no consideration ...ahhhhhhhhh
Have a good afternoon.

redsquirrel80

I don't think I'd want any sort of therapy from someone with that attitude!

Mmmmm chocolate - enjoy

Karmacat

I agree! And I can't even buy chocolate - its absolutely **throwing** it down here right now. I did manage to get the rubbish and the recycling down to the garage, but haven't done the patio junk, the rain started up too heavily again. So I've been sat in the 2nd bedroom (well, scrunched up on the floor, actually ) labelling and snipping down to make things fit in folders, just getting it tidier. The genealogy stuff is done, as are a few more CDs I found (and the big cases chucked - my god, those little plastic CD envelopes from Amazon have been worth their weight in gold ) and I'm now about to start on the dreaded mementoes - why on earth did I think my life was so interesting that I kept all this carp? Imagine a hair-pulling-out smiley, and we're there :D:D

Karmacat

Okay, this piece of the "carp" is irresistible:

Carol Service, 20th December 1965 - its the Order of Service. And the First Reading, of The Prophecy of Isaiah - is read by yours truly, Karmacat. Awww..............

I found lots of exercise books from the early 1960s - very cute. But I also found my exam papers from O levels! Not what I wrote - the lists of questions!!! What on *earth* did I keep those for! Okay, they actually have historical value, thats already so long ago - I'm keeping two, as examples. I also have the question papers from my degree - the anthropology one has a couple of prayers written on it, it was obviously quite tough for me :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

boredofbeingathome

Karmacat wrote: »

Okay, this piece of the "carp" is irresistible:

Carol Service, 20th December 1965 - its the Order of Service. And the First Reading, of The Prophecy of Isaiah - is read by yours truly, Karmacat. Awww..............

Sniffle- i remember going to Carol services when younger and we had to all dress in a posh white blouse and black skirt. Felt ever so special it did:D

Karmacat

Just found a few theatre programmes - 1980 from the RSC, The Greeks. The Oresteia, from the National Theatre, and the Martha Graham Dance Company at the Royal Opera House. Good grief, the people I used to go to see: Martha Graham herself, Liza Minelli, John Shrapnel, Janet Suzman, Billie Whitelaw, Tony Robinson (off Time Team!). I saw Svetlana Beriosova, Gareth Thomas, Cherie Lunghi, John Woodvine (I still remember him as Malvolio), thats just these programmes I've still got - I used to go to the West End regularly (and didn't get into debt doing it, either....). Still, the programmes are definitely going up on ebay, if I went under a bus, someone looking through my stuff would leaf through them in two seconds, like I've just done, and move on. No point. Interesting, but not worth the clutter any more.

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Still, the programmes are definitely going up on ebay, if I went under a bus, someone looking through my stuff would leaf through them in two seconds, like I've just done, and move on. No point. Interesting, but not worth the clutter any more.

There has been a definite shift in your values. You really want to move don't you?

Karmacat

Hi Z - yes, I really do. And I don't want to take all of the old life and the old attitudes with me. My privacy is still very important to me, but I don't want to hide any more, and I don't want to submerge myself in stuff that simply has to be stored and held onto. It doesn't achieve anything - I won't go into the psychological stuff, but it certainly doesn't achieve what I was putting onto it

Of course, some of the stuff is worth holding: my nan had to leave her council house in 1983 when it was renovated (an upstairs toilet was installed!) and I have two newspapers that were underneath the carpets - laid down in 1933, instead of underlay. They mention "Mr Hitler". And two swimming certificates awarded to my nan in 1915, when she was 11 years old. They're so elaborate, really huge too. Those are worth keeping.

I just scrolled up to the top of the page and remembered about buying chocolate. Woo hoo, its only spitting with rain now, I'm off to the off licence to buy choccie.

The_Dragon

Wow KarmaCat you really are going for it! I think some of your de-cluttering is rubbing off on Dr Dragon as well - he is talking about getting rid of a load of videos :D:D

Karmacat

Hi Dragon! Yep, I am - if I had quite enough energy for the garden, or the patio, I'd be even happier, but I don't - and anyway, its been throwing it down today, so its no go.

I'm glad to hear Dr D is talking of getting rid of videos! They take up *so* much space, and the ones I used to have never transferred well from machine to machine, maybe because I recorded on Long Play.

Had my choccy bar now, I'm just going to relax in front of the tv, don't want to push it - there's something about British Columbia on the beeb after the Olympics summary.

Just got time to hunt out your diary and see how you're doing!

xxx