Olivia Ariadne Hussain, 12 hours old.
Attended my first exercise class for cancer patients followed by a relaxation session.
After lunch we walked to the local supermarket to pick up some goodies to have for breakfast picnic on the beach tomorrow and see the sun rise on our anniversary
Stopped off at the local biscuit shop and bought a bag of broken biscuits £1.99 for > 700g.
You have my sympathy. Trying to get my 94 yr old father into a care home (for his own well being rather than medical need) and one of the sticking points is 60 years of stuff he is sure is worth money, but isn’t. It’s not about worth, it’s about letting go, and he can’t.I’ve been clearing my father’s place, now that he’s shuffled off to a retirement home. Several thousand books to sort, photograph and find homes for. Giving away books is so much more difficult than binning them, but a promise is a promise.
My father is the same age. My parents bought this house in 1958… and they’ve kept everything. Full invoices on everything since then… it’s interesting to see the evolution of prices of things like cars, white goods, furniture, house improvements etc. in proportion to income. But the interest is starting to wear off, replaced by useless “meaning of life” questions.
My father was a language and literature teacher, who kept full records of his class preparations (not a problem, binned) and also of his students going back to the ‘50s, including grades and disciplinary actions where applicable (GDPR not a concern for him). He retired more than 30 years ago, but it’s all here. I’ve been feeding the shredder for hours on end with a steady diet of paper and occasional squirts of vegetable oil. I feel the machine is shredding the traces of his working life, but his achievements were more intangible, and I’ve kept the cards sent by grateful students as they wrote to him about exams and their own new jobs as teachers.
I haven’t found any. I’m hoping to give the literature books to the university and school where he taught. His WW2 books (hundreds of them) and research have already gone to a local publisher, who’s building up a library of notes, books and manuscripts.Are there no local museums of social history that might jump at the chance of such an archive?
It’s reasonably solid, but the oil is essential to prevent it from self-destructing.You must have a heavy-duty shredder, the thermal cut out on ours kicks in at 10 minutes!
Had the eye test done and no real change since last time. The environment wasn’t too bad