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The clearout continues
Got rid of furniture today. Two chaps arrived with a large van and carted off my parents' beds, their fitted wardrobes, the drop-down bed in one of the single bedrooms, two greasy armchairs and the freezer from the garage.
My parents' beds were in poor condition, the mattresses in particular. I've seen better by the side of roads. My mother will have my bed and I shall sleep on the mattress from the drop-down bed. She offered to sleep on that but, if she could get down onto it, I doubt she could get up from it.
Yesterday a man phoned in reply to our advertisement about a bookcase for sale. He turned up today with his brother, gave me £30, and they carted it off on the roof of their car. If he'd phoned today it would have gone with the house clearance men.
I borrowed another book about DIY from the library. While I was there I read the local paper's review of last Sunday's airshow. 'A heavy-lift Chinook HC 2 defied gravity to conduct an astonishing aerial ballet. With its 7000hp engine at full blast and twin rotors spinning it pirouetted, spiralled, dived and rose at all kinds of angles helicopters allegedly just can't do. Aerobatics virtuoso Will Curtis in the Road Anger Sukhoi 26 M2 performed seemingly suicidal 250mph vertical climbing tumbles and rolls.'
Thought for today
People who are lonely are those who do not know what to do with the time when they are alone.
Quentin Crisp (1908 - 1999) In Sunday Telegraph 28 September 1999
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