We have decided that our old mattress is not worth storing so we have just manhandled it down the stairs and onto the drive where it is waiting for the council to pick up tomorrow. If any neighbours pass a disapproving eye in our direction we are going to say, ‘It’s shocking what people will fly-tip these days, isn’t it?’
The packing seems endless at the moment. Mark has already taken a load of boxes to the storage unit, but he assures me there is plenty of space left for our furniture which our ‘man and van’ are taking on Thursday. We will be down to an air bed and couple of chairs the last few days.
We have both sorted through some old clothes that we can ‘wear and ditch’ the last few days we are here so we don’t have to start our trip with dirty washing. My mother used to worry about being run over by a bus the day before going on holiday and being caught in her ‘second eleven’ underwear. As a friend of mine said, if you were run over by a bus, the state of your underwear would be the last thing on your mind.
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Hopefully, by now, the mattress has departed (probably without the neighbours even noticing it was there!)
I wonder how many different mattresses you will have slept on before the end of your travels!
We found it fun to create travel maps showing the route we had taken during different “tours of exploration”.
If you don’t know it, Google provide a very useful tool for doing this. Here’s a tutorial: https://www.kevinandamanda.com/create-a-custom-travel-map-with-google-maps/
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Fortunately the council turned up early so I don’t think too many people noticed.
Thanks for the tip about creating a travel map. I will look into it.
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