Travelling On

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Karmacat wrote: »

...trying to find my desk under the long term crap placed on top of it ...

...and here I thought that was the rightful home of all random crap...
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
...atm my desk at home has a pile of neatly folded laundry on it that did not make it into the cupboard...
...guess I should find the surface this evening given that I'm working from home tomorrow:D

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: there was laundry involved today, but I put it on my bed, to make sure I put it away Office is a *lot* clearer, though I'm not finished by any means. My aim is to have useable space in every room - good heavens, I live in a 3 bed house on my own, it should be possible :rotfl: :cool:

Karmacat

Morning! We had a photo-sorting day yesterday: all my mum's photos, the ones I painstakingly scanned in 2018, we're dividing them between us: we didn't take any of the scenic ones, there were a few that were horrendously over-exposed, and there were quite a few duplicate printings, plus anything of the grandchildren went to the parent involved (except for a few of my sister's kids out with me: I had those ). But we've only done about 45% ...
:eek::eek::eek:
It took a long time too. So nothing else at all was done yesterday, apart from 15 minutes plotting about a family birthday in March. It was a really, really good day :beer:

teapot2

Thats quite a project KC but very worthwhile for the family. I have a big box of photos lurking that I need to go through at some point also including lots of landscape ones :eek:

Glad you had such a good day :cool:

Karmacat

Thanks teapot! Taking landscape is fair enough, of course, when its for your own use - I have lots and lots (and lots) of my own. In the early days, I bought a lot of postcards too, because in the days of film, you were never sure how your own photos were going to turn out. But somebody else's landscapes, on mostly fuzzy 1980s quality paper, its just not doing it for us :rotfl:

Today, here's the list:
- supermarket delivery 3 - 4 pm.
- contact my friend on the coast, I'm supposed to be seeing him tomorrow.
- get the rubbish out of the house, collection is Friday morning, and needs to be done today if I'm out tomorrow. This includes some cleaning
- get the washing machine on.
- tax papers: I know what old stuff can be thrown, what new stuff needs to go into storage, and I need to collect the French papers ready to do the French declaration.

That'll do

beanielou

A really good day yesterday then.

themadvix

We have similar to do with my Nan's photos - at the moment they're all in several large boxes at my Mum's. We love looking through them, but sorting, deciding and actioning those decisions... hmm.... It'll wait until the remnants from Nan's house (stored in the same room) have gone to new homes I think! And it'll be just as large a task as yours sounds!

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Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks teapot! Taking landscape is fair enough, of course, when its for your own use - I have lots and lots (and lots) of my own. In the early days, I bought a lot of postcards too, because in the days of film, you were never sure how your own photos were going to turn out. But somebody else's landscapes, on mostly fuzzy 1980s quality paper, its just not doing it for us :rotfl:

Sounds like a very productive day yesterday KC:j:beer:. the sort of job that lots of people keep putting off but well worth doing because the result is so worth it. I really agree with your comment about the postcards. I did exactly the same (although like your former vast store of photographs I really must have a major cull of them:o). Whenever I photographed 'views' it was just to remind me of an event/visit/occasion and they were never meant to be saved for posterity to show to others. I didn't care too much what they looked like, hence the postcards. DH on the other hand used to drive me bonkers, faffing about with settings on his various cameras, shifting the place he took the pic from several times before he even clicked once:mad:. Now he relies on a pointand click camera and seems perfectly happy with the results:rotfl:

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Sorry to hijack but don't know where else to comment and this diary always has a very eclectic mix of topics:j

Just had a very weird phone call on our landline asking for DH by name and asking when it would be convenient to collect the washing machine that has been recalled:eek:. We don't own/never have owned one of the ones being recalled currently. I incredulously asked ''what washing machine?'' and he just said they had to come and pick it up from us and mentioned the postcode. It was the correct postcode but whether he had the address too I didn't ask or wait to find out. I just hung up and I've blocked the caller's number. It wasn't one of those anonymous or international numbers, it was a genuine-looking number, Glasgow area code. Makes me very uneasy that people out there, probably up to no good, know things about us and can violate our personal space by phoning our home landline:eek:

Karmacat

beanielou wrote: »

A really good day yesterday then.

It was, beanie, thanks.

themadvix wrote: »

We have similar to do with my Nan's photos - at the moment they're all in several large boxes at my Mum's. We love looking through them, but sorting, deciding and actioning those decisions... hmm.... It'll wait until the remnants from Nan's house (stored in the same room) have gone to new homes I think! And it'll be just as large a task as yours sounds!

It's taken us a long time - over 3 years. And some of that time was me scanning them all, as I say - this is "just" the physical copies, but dividing them all, aieeeee. Your Nan might have some very old ones, too.

Finally_Solvent wrote: »

Sounds like a very productive day yesterday KC:j:beer:. the sort of job that lots of people keep putting off but well worth doing because the result is so worth it. I really agree with your comment about the postcards. I did exactly the same (although like your former vast store of photographs I really must have a major cull of them:o). Whenever I photographed 'views' it was just to remind me of an event/visit/occasion and they were never meant to be saved for posterity to show to others. I didn't care too much what they looked like, hence the postcards. DH on the other hand used to drive me bonkers, faffing about with settings on his various cameras, shifting the place he took the pic from several times before he even clicked once:mad:. Now he relies on a pointand click camera and seems perfectly happy with the results:rotfl:

Yes, exactly that :j As cameras got better, I did take a bit more care because it was worth it, and now point and click are so good, I too am perfectly happy though I do have a bit of a yen to upgrade :o:o


ETA - just seen your 2nd post, FS, I'm reading it now.