Back to the blog again this evening and about to publish the 6th post for February, 2025. It’s the most posts I’ve ever written in one month since starting ‘Keeping it Going’ over ten years ago. The need to write is symptomatic of how significant this past couple of months has felt to me, I think – a need to record and account for what I’ve been up to.
As those of you who follow this blog will know, my main focus since the start of this year has been on sorting and cataloguing over 100 30 litre boxes full of stuff. It’s been a mammoth task and I’ve really felt it at times, both physically and emotionally.
It was the photo below in particular, that really drove home the enormity of what I’ve been doing since the beginning of 2025. The photo of the boxes in my garden on a rare sunny day was taken at the start of this week. Since then, the boxes have been returned to the garden shed and covered with a new, larger piece of tarpaulin. I feel pretty confident that they’ll now be watertight and my collections kept safe until such a time that I need to access them.
Two months on from leaving my studio in Deptford, things feel more manageable than I expected. I might still have to think about getting rid of a few more bits and pieces but, as things stand, I’m pleased with the progress that’s been made and am beginning to feel optimistic that the new garden office space, once it’s been organised, will be workable. I’m also pleased that the boxes fit comfortably into the garden shed with even, dare I say it, a bit of spare space.
It feels important to me at this point in time that the boxes are out of sight and out of mind. Having been so close to them and their contents these past couple of months, I feel very ready to take a break. It’s been quite a task, physically and emotionally, and I’m giving myself a long weekend off now in order to rebuild my energy for the next undertaking that lies ahead – ie. sorting out the space in the garden office in order to prepare it for a place to work.
