Awake and up all night

You are doing brilliant Julie.i love a good sort out feel better for it. I can't sit and look at mess. It is so much easier to keep clean without clutter. 

I love that Ray. It made me laugh. I bet your house is beautiful you can't help all the boxes got to look after yourself first.

This is true, especially with buying new carpets likely to give me an expensive shock. I do tend to keep things a long time. I still have the pedal cycle that I bought in 1963 from Halfords. Nothing fancy, still works but arthritic hips mean I can't get on it let alone ride it. The moped I bought in 1967 is in my shed. Same problem although it would need a bit of work to get it running again, then there's the folding shopping bike that I bought for my late wife 50 years ago. I can get on that just about but can't pedal it. I have a classic car in the garage that I've owned since 1992. I do not drive it very often but it is fully road legal and works as well as an early 1960s car can (slowly!!). I have recently recommissioned my mid 1980s mobility scooter and intend to visit Costa or go on a tour of the pathways near the small river which runs through the town. I'd actually love to go for a traditional picnic, you know, tartan rug (which is nearly 70 years old), flask of tea and a few Marmite sandwiches - but I feel a bit daft because it's just me.  Oh well. Life.  Ray x

Well done for keeping all your treasures. I have got a maiden that is 50 years old and my iron is 30 years old both are still okay.

Maiden?  What is that?

Hope you get on that picnic Ray even if you are on your tod.

It is a clothes airer I am 74 and that is what we called them.

I call it a clothes horse  

Aha! Thank you. I'm familiar with wringer, boiler (for clothes washing), washing board etc. You have enhanced my education this evening.  xx

Same thing Jamie.