Back Home (Only It Isn't Home Any More)

[poliphilo]

Last time we were up here it was comparatively easy. We knew what we wanted to keep and what we were happy to get rid of.  Now we have to make up our minds about everything else.

This morning I went through the CD collection. It turned out we wanted to keep most of it. I also went through a filing cabinet which had nothing in it of any value- sentimental or otherwise; the cabinet itself was one of the things we later took to the charity shop in Failsworth.

We had lunch in the Failsworth Tesco. I'm sticking to the resolution I made last time we were here that this is a holiday (however little it may feel like it) and I'm not cooking any meals.

This afternoon Ailz is spending with her mother. Dorothy expects it- and complains if she thinks she's being short-changed. 

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

There's just so much stuff in a house one has lived in for years. How long had you been living at the old house?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I bought the house in 1986. Ailz joined me here in 1991.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

If it's the music you want to keep, and not the physical CDs, you can always burn them to your computer's hard drive - there are lots of free media players (Windows Media, RealPlayer, etc) that will do this for you, and it's a piece of cake. Then, you will have the music forever, but in a much easier form. :)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Actually I like to have my music in tangible form. I'm buying a lot of CDs right now- secondhand in charity shops.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering what the nature of "home" really is. Admittedly, I've moved around quite a few times - still, maybe I'll make a small entry out of the point, as I'd rather like to invite comment on the topic.

Myself, I suppose I'm split between a few locations - birth (though I've not lived there in a long time. Did spend a few months in that neck of the woods with Dad, back in 1999, while waiting for one of my visas to come through, and absolutely loved it), San Francisco, and Bath, with the latter two with no further justification than simply feeling at home there.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

If you take the long view there's no such thing as a permanent home because we're all be moving off planet sooner or later.