Clearing the garage

Since we moved in (would you believe more than seven months ago now), the garage has been to a greater or lesser extent one almighty mess.  First of all it was full of moving boxes, then it was full of cardboard and junk, and then there has been an ever rotating stream of old appliances and building materials.

I sawed the Christmas tree up (this was a task and a half as the trunk at the bottom was about 20cm across) and we took it and a load of cardboard and other rubbish to the tip (sorry recycling centre).  Then I stacked boxes, put tools away and put all the residual rubbish in a pile ready for another tip (sorry recycling centre) trip.

This has left some lino which I am going to put on the floor of the coal hole and turn it into a storage area for the stuff we really don’t mind getting damp, the workshop things and garden tools and my bicycle.  There is a big space (more than half the garage) clear now and I swept it clean with the yard brush.

So a bit more work to be done, but after that we could actually start putting the car in it.  The question, however, is do we really want to?  The car is eight years old and has sat on the drive all that time, most of it in the Highlands, and has not a spot of rust on him so not sure how much point there is in garaging him now.

In the process of the garage clearance I found yet another unopened box from the move.  This basically contained a corner of my old office which had been dumped in a box (I suspect R) – and included about 100 assorted pencils and pens.  It also included some lovely ornaments from Sorrento which were a present from my Mum and Dad which I thought we had lost.

I particularly like the bunch of grapes with the bee on them.