As part of the “sorting out” of my book collection I have not only been making multiple trips to Oxfam but the process of categorisation has started. This is not a quick job. I have a number of themes of interest: Carmarthenshire history, WW2 history, Manx interest, general British history and everything else. If a general history book is relevant for my Welsh research it gets put in that category. Yesterday I began grouping these on different shelves.
This is not a quick job. The shelves are mostly already full with random titles although Oxfam has helped me free up some space. So when a WW2 book gets put next to their WW2 pals others are displaced and have to be rehomed. This is going to be a long iterative process that can be done a little bit at a time. When I have spare five minutes every now and again 🙂 The Shed is going to be the repository of the Carmarthenshire works. I have an empty bookcase that needs moving across. The desk and sofa have already been moved forwards a few inches to free up some space behind.
Last night Lincoln were for the first time ever on University Challenge and they won. Had THG and I not been sitting on comfortable low level sofas we might have fallen off. Well done. They had a bloke sat at the end who knew most of the answers but that seems to be the case for many teams. There’s always one superstar/swot.
Mark the joiner is coming this morning. A lot of jobs lined up for him. There’s two or three days worth of work but he is just here for the morning today to get started. We seem to be going through a phase of spending on the house. Needs doing every now and again. It’s one of the reasons we aren’t interested in a holiday home. A house needs to be lived in to be properly maintained. It’s a continuous process really. There are other reasons for my stance on holiday homes. It’s just that one fitted into the theme of the paragraph.
Deconstructed bacon sandwich for brekkie. One slice of ordinary and one slice of smoked. Two slices of sourdough toast. Number five on the dial. That’s the last of the drycured unsmoked back bacon. I can source more when required to do so (by me).
Gotta go. Mark will be here soon.