Gallery week 25: One day in August

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Date: 01 September 2010 09:00:21

I've not taken part in the Gallery (hosted as ever by Tara at Sticky Fingers) for a few weeks, but thesis boredom and the consequent procrastination requirements means I'm in for this week :) The theme this week, inspired by the blipfoto project where people post a photo a day for a year, is One Day in August, and all the photos taking part in the Gallery were taken last Sunday, 29th August. I did think about taking a picture of my various books and piles of paper and laptop to show the hard work I was doing on my thesis (*ahem*), or of the washing drying beautifully on the line (when you live in the west of Scotland, being able to hang out the washing is a real treat due to our tendency for, well, Scottish weather!). Instead I've taken a bit of a boring photo, but one with a story.

You see, on Sunday we said goodbye to our telly as we lost our freecycle virginity. We hardly ever use the TV now - if there's something we want to watch we use iPlayer (or the various alternatives for the other channels) and watch online, and in our not exactly enormous flat you can see it was taking up a fair chunk of space. I joined freecycle a while ago intending to put the TV on it, but never got round to it until this weekend. For those who don't know, freecycle is a great service where you can give stuff you don't want any more to someone who wants it, all for free, the aim being to increase recyling and reduce stuff going to landfill. We have a number of other things in storage which I think we could also get rid of this way, it feels so much more rewarding than just dumping things (we do still give stuff to our local charity shops, but they don't take electrical items so dumping would be the only alternative for items like this). I also think the photo is noteworthy for the absence of crap and detritus on the floor! I sorted out the shelves on Saturday as I am gradually bringing my thesis books and stuff back from my uni office to home as the office needs cleared by the time I submit. Up till then the floor was home for all that stuff as there wasn't anywhere else for it. I don't suppose the clear floor will last long, but at least there is photographic evidence that for a day at least tidiness reigned!