Featured Hoarder or storer?

I don't disdain any clocks, it's just some are less usual than others........

But I can bore for my national team about any of them.

 

Hi Book,
Maybe not a treasure chest but I know for a fact there is silver in them hills as well as paper and everything but glass.
greg

 

Af...that mid 19th C.French marquetry portico clock is awesome.I don't see any cobwebs in your shed??? Must me air tight.

 

Hi Shiloh,
If you do not want any cobwebs in a room try this hint. I haved painted all my ceilings a pale blue, since then no cobwebs. I learned this from painting porch ceilings and shed ceilings blue. No more insects building nests etc. For some reason I guess the blue looks like there is no roof. The mites and bugs do not like open spaces.
greg

 

No notable spiders, maybe they don't like the untidyness. No blue ceiling either, but surely white would look like a cloudy sky, just as sky-like?

Anyway, back to the shed for some more tidying up. The weather here is unseasonably warm, 60F and sunny is unusual for November in England, so might as well make the best of it.

 

I have a couple of baker's racks (actually for drying washed objects but that's another story) hanging out in the garage not in use at the moment. I bet those would work for paintings up to a certain size. I'll have to give it a try once I can get to them LOL!

 

I just took some meat hooks out of the pantry and used them to hang some pictures off the shelves in the shed, rather than leaving them flat on the shelves or leaning on the floor.

There is now only about 6 square feet of floor left undisciplined, and as a reward I found a couple of ounces of silver, including this odd object which is about 3 1/2 inches long, hallmarked S.M. and Co Ltd,(Sampson Mordan) Chester hallmark for 1910.
My theory is that it is a silver tongue depressor from a doctor's kit.



Although it must be withing three feet of me I now can't find it.:-(

 

So as not to shock those born with a silver spoon in their mouth?

 

Very probably. But silver is also a natural antiseptic.

 

Not being a total numpty, I knew that.
Was just a bit of humour.

 

I had a feeling it might be.

 

I think Messi must be an anglophile...she spelled humour correctly!

 

I like most any place where flush toilets are common, but I do read (and watch) many British mysteries.

 

OK, the last of the shed project pictures. I am celebrating having cleared all the floor area with a super giveaway found in the process.

The desk is now a desk, with desky things.

sorry about the fuzzy one but I'm too knackered to go out and do it again.


and for the record, may be the last time, the rest of the clear floor.










May the force be with you, a bit of ecouragement has helped me to make a major impression on the chaos that prevailed, without actual psychiatric help.

 

I want Trip98's wicker tete-a-tete chair!

 

I also want to go visit AF's shed.

 

I have now vacuum cleaned the floor. The missus was gobsmacked, it was the first time in almost 30 years she had ever seen me use the vacuum cleaner. It was the first time in several years I had seen all or even much of the floor.

I'll see about getting a British Tourist Board rating for it.

 

You must channel that clean-up energy to me, AF. We can't get a cat (it's time -- we still miss our Merlin, but we need a new fur-baby) until I de-clutter some more!
You did a fabulous job!

 

I am hatching a new plan. Now I have access to the shelves in the shed, I am going to take my store of empty plastic storage boxes and start systematically going through from one end to the other sorting stuff into trash, car boot stuff, flea market stuff and antique fair stuff, and packing it in some sort of order.

My previous technique was to pick something up, look at it, and generally put it down somewhere else. This is not sorting out, it is just sifting nuggets from a spoil heap.

Less ruth is needed. More must go.

Because when I have some free shelf space, all the old photographic stuff including thousands of lantern slides and various projectors can come in from the garage and be sorted to some extent, freeing up more garage space.

If I make it not quite room enough to put a car in there, really nice 'brown furniture' is terribly cheap here at the moment, so I could furnish the newly cleared garage with Regency and Victorian furniture. That'll go down well but hey-ho, what's the worst that can happen. Yeah, sleeping in the garage. Better get a big brass bed as well.

As for channeling the energy, I'm going to need it all , but if the biggest slob in Slobovia can stagger through all this, anyone can.

 

What's a female slob called? A slobette?