A bit of decluttering.

There has been a heap of stuff in the kitchen here since shortly after we moved in. I’m not quite sure how it started, things have been taken away and other things added, but it was unnecessary, and today I dealt with it. This despite feeling for most of the day that what I really wanted to do was sit in a corner and cry. No, I’m not sure why.

So, the heap was reduced mainly to other heaps. Some of it went straight in the bin. Some made a pile – boxes to be burnt and stuff to add to charity shop pile – that will go into my boot tomorrow and be dropped off at old house along with my car on our way to CP. There are two bags of old shoes that will be taken to the cobblers in town that has a bin outside for the recycling of old shoes. A few things were even put where they were meant to be. And now there is clear floor, that I hoovered and carpet shampooed, as the cat has been smelly on at least one part of the pile. Bleargh.

I even got into the living room with the hoover and did the visible parts of the floor in here. I had good intentions to then sit down with my maths, but I sat down with my netbook instead, and then suddenly realised that the world was swinging gently around me. While I was sitting down. So I went to bed, fell asleep almost instantly, and slept for over two hours.

I don’t feel quite right now. Not ill precisely, but more like my head isn’t quite as attached as it ought to be. And this after eating healthily again – the party food that was bought for Friday evening ended up feeding our family for another two meals, so I got pesto houmous, salad, cherry tomatoes and home baked bread for lunch (again) – yum.

The children have been self entertaining today. I have spotted yet more ‘putering, and they appear to be taking it in turns to read Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Small may have finished it actually – he’s getting to be quite a fast reader. He likes to read with the book on the sofa while he kneels on the floor, which seems an odd position to me, but I guess he must be comfortable. Big has read several of her shakespeare stories which appear to be excellent as far as she is concerned, thanks offthepathers 🙂 She also used her new art set and did quite creditable portraits of each of us, in colour. I was impressed, it’s not the sort of thing she usually does, far more his area of preference.

Oh, and I noticed a post on one of the suffolk home ed lists about something I was looking at last week. Do you know whether you live in a transition town? Seems to me that the movement would be a lot more successful if a few more of us knew about it!