REPORTING FOR DUTY ... SAH!

 

One of the many readers complained that I haven't updated the blog today.

I guess that the poor old pensioner hasn't got a lot going on in his life and he looks forward to my daily posts.

Well, here's an update:

The weather today has been very changeable with the odd rain storm andhigh winds but with intermittent sunshine. The sunshine hasn't lasted long enough for me to do my outdoor chores: sanding and painting deck rails and the odd house feature; finish staining the deck; washing down the weatherboards; loading up the trailer with ink for the tip etc.

I instead, sorted out old photographs and boxes of assorted stationery and memorabilia. Yes, we are going down that rabbit hole that all oldies seem to go down - the throwing out of photos and keepsakes.

Having no children means that there's no point keeping lots of the personal stuff that we have both collected. I have been putting aside family stuff that has meaning for my sister though. As the unofficial family historian she can have my dad's war memorabilia including his service medals and various items I have had given to me by my parents. The digital age has kind of taken the value out of photographs nowadays unless they are very old or of outstanding quality. The casual snapshots are pretty boring really.

I've already given away almost all of our paperback novels (to the tennis club) and have many better quality books that I'll sort out in categories and donate to the local school library.

It's a wrench but we just won't have room for them in our next residence unless we buy a house again.

Talking of that, when discussing our requirements in an apartment we agreed that maybe a 2-bedroom apartment won't be big enough for us so we'll have to look for 3+ bedroom apartments. This might prove difficult in the area we desire - Oriental Bay or waterfront and may push us to other suburbs like Mt Victoria, Roseneath, Newtown, Thorndon etc - still close to town though. Apartments might not be much of an option in these though so a townhouse of self contained cottage might be the answer. We don't want a garden as the idea of a 'lockup and leave' residence is what we're looking for.

Hey ho. I might be getting ahead of myself here as we may not get what we want for our house given the current property market. We may still be up north for a while but .... there are orca in our bay today and yesterday. Magic!