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25 JUNE

25/6/2018

I would love to know how many times I have made this trip: as a child with Dad driving, Mum in the front, little bro beside me and the pockets of the Triumph Herald filled with sweeties; or nowadays, either driving myself or with B doing the driving. At the moment we are making the 90-minute trip frequently, between two homes, the car stacked with odds and ends of the house move. This week we were blessed with spectacular weather for the drive. I love taking random photos with my phone on car trips. I can't see what I'm shooting at the time and get some exciting results when I transfer the photos over from my phone.

18 JUNE

19/6/2018

Moving out. The house is on the market, renovations on the interior are almost complete; the exterior comes next. The actual house move itself is beginning to draw close.
7 great things from this week:

- Goodbye old art bin, hello to the new one
- Smooth operator
- Beginning to see clear spaces
- The new skip filling up quickly (the fourth 16 cubic yarder)
- Smooth walls! And clean windows!
- I discovered we had a model of the universe in an old lamp
- We discovered we had a feature staircase under the old carpet

Thanks for visiting, see you next week!

11 JUNE

11/6/2018

The great clear-out prior to the final house move continued this week with the shed. At one time we used it as a pottery, and the clutter was incredible. This old touristy biscuit-tin printed with scenes of the Cotswolds turned up; I was fascinated by its innocence and the faded, scratched surfaces which seemed to add mysterious symbols to buildings and describe jagged lightning strikes of rust!

Thanks for visiting, see you next week

BONUS POST!

4/6/2018

Our third - yes, THIRD - 16 cubic metre skip is our own personal Michael Landy's Art Bin project (2010, the South London Gallery) pictured half-way to being filled to the hilt with failed projects, ghastly drawings, and portfolios of fails.
Never be an artist if you are of the faint-hearted persuasion.

4 JUNE