Cardboard, cardboard and (yet more) cardboard

You just can’t imagine how much crap there is choking up the house.  For a start off, the people who sold us the house did a far from stellar job in removing their stuff so we had all of that to get rid of.  But worse than that there were piles and piles and piles of cardboard and packing material.

We had had loads of this to start with, but Pickford’s had added quite a bit as well.  Then there was an ancient hostess trolley which had just been left, an old fire surround and electric fire, and a cupboard stuffed full of decaying curtains.  So to get rid of it we had to hire a skip which cost nearly £500.  Having said that – at least in Cupar you can actually get a skip – in Lochgoilhead you didn’t seem to be able to for love nor money.  Another bit benefit is that the St Andrews tip (sorry “recycling centre”) is ten minutes drive away rather than over an hour.  There is a tip in Cupar, but for some reason it is booked in appointments only and doesn’t seem to take many different sorts of stuff.