Letting go

When our cellar flooded last year we had to quickly bring up many boxes of company documents which we had stored down there after our fourth-generation family business stopped trading a few years ago, and which we were keeping partly for legal reasons, and partly for sentimental ones. The boxes have been in our garage up until now, but we would like to reclaim that space, so we have now decided that it’s time to let go of all the items that we aren’t still officially required to keep. 

I made a start today, and it’s creating very mixed emotions for us both, and bringing up lots of memories, but is also cathartic and healing. I have been scanning for England to create a digital archive for the family records, but the hard copies are all going to be shredded. When we’ve finished we will need to get a firm to come in and do the shredding in a lorry on the premises, then take it all away, but I don’t think that will happen for a while, given how much sorting out there is to do first!   

We went for a walk this afternoon but there was nothing of note to photograph, everything looked very drab, so I give you this gorgeous bunch of tulips which a friend gave me when she came to collect a card order. They really brighten up the hall, and make me smile.