Hah!
Today's the day that I have to drive over to the relative with the #GardenClearance, later #GarageClearance, who is today getting a 2nd shed installed.
This one has electricity, and double glazing. I have decided that the proper term for it is "outhouse".
The first one we filled with stuff from the garage clearance.
The relative's back garden is a mud bath, having dug a 60cm trench for the #electricity cable; which has a 1kV rating.
I have been kind in nicknaming the guitars that the relative stored in a toilet for some years simply the Toilet Guitars, rather than making some pointed current affairs reference like The Donald Strums or something. We found a third instrument, yesterday. Enough to now form a toilet mariachi group, I think, sans trumpets. I am resisting the nickname Mar-A-Banjo.
Yes, the #GarageClearance has extended to me taking boxes of old papers out of a shower. It turns out that the garage overflowed.
The relative is not using high strength shelving lightly. Dishonourable mention goes to the mystery #AmateurRadio (presumably) kit (broken, sans most of its housing) labelled in sort-of Cyrillic. It's literally massive. Did they build it from rocks?
"G" isn't a Cyrillic letter, so suggestions as to what language adds "G" to the Cyrillic alphabet would be entertaining.
I'll try to get a photograph of the logo if I can. Maybe it isn't even Cyrillic. Looks it.
And today, I are be mostly banging shelves with un 'ammer … again!
2 #Rack1000 shelves from #Homebase are not enough, it transpires. Even with skip number 6 in play. They're both full, and the skip is almost full.
I had to leave the 3rd set of shelves partly assembled yesterday evening. I was too tired to complete it.
Yesterday we discovered that, contrary to information received a few weeks ago, there's an entire hidden loft of stuff above the garage, that has *not* been cleared at all. It's at least another two trips with the Ford Transit.
So this morning I have to beg an extension to the rental off Enterprise.
Then there are the cardboard boxes to reach that have been jammed into high up gaps where the garage wall meets the ceiling beams.
The fun part, discovered today, is that the relative *also* has an honest-to-goodness proper EN 60320 kettle lead, with the high temperature notch (not the connector that computer programmers think a kettle lead to be (-: ), buried deeper in the garage.
I cannot be sure that the relative has none that fit that, given recent discoveries, but the relative's kettle that xe uses every day has a captive lead, as modern kettles now have.
The relative has kept a non-kitemarked BS3283 kettle lead just in case xe might need it.
The relative has no working old electric kettles, and #BS3283 was withdrawn as an electrical standard three decades ago.
Fortunately, empty cardboard boxes do not make that disturbing clanging sound that loose stuff makes, when one drives around corners, or over speed bumps. They just slide and tumble around all over the place in the back quite quietly. (-:
Some of today's cardboard boxes will have glass in, though, so I must strap things down.
To give you an idea of the scale of work involved in the #GarageClearance that has been added on to the #GardenClearance: just the empty cardboard boxes alone that I relocated yesterday from one house to another filled the back of a long wheelbase Ford Transit.
I have to be up today in 3 hours's time in order to nick a parking spot for the van. Today's job is further carboard boxes, that have stuff in.
I must remember to take the loading straps. I forgot yesterday.
If I can find it today, I shall open the box and determine whether this is actually true. I suspect, from the condition of some *other* items, that it is not.
JdeBP
JdeBP