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Date: 16 January 2005 16:46:10
It's a bit of a shame the Smudgelet's have to come home - even more of a shame that I have to go to school tomorrow. I'm doing soooooooooo well. Mind you, I'll grant you that part of the progress is because I have dumped about six box-loads of stuff in Dad's kitchen, using it as a temporary spare room while he's away. And I'll grant you that the place currently looks an absolute tip as my entire lounge is scattered in various piles around the room and the hall, and my kitchen is swamped with washing at various stages of clean-and-dryness. In fact, having just returned from the tip, I can assure you that it is a lot tidier there!
But two loads of junk have gone from the garage to the tip so that is now clear of everything apart from the childrens' garden toys and some tools and tins of paint. There's just the floor to sweep and that's a job I know Tiddles will love, so I've left that for him to do. (Nothing to do, of course, with the millions of dispossessed woodlice and spiders and earwigs running round in there.) It took a bit of willpower to close my eyes and tip out three boxes of damp and mildewed books which I hadn't realised I'd left in there and which were totally beyond repair. But it's done now, and they are no longer there to haunt me with guilt.
Next job, before I continue rehoming all the junk from behind the curtain, is to sort out my paperwork into my filing cabinet. Oh, and I suppose I had better make sure the Smudgelets have some freshly ironed school uniform to wear tomorrow.