Tidying time

[j4]

I suppose it could be considered ironic that I spent a large portion of a Bank Holiday sorting and filing statements, payslips, cheques, etc. Still, a six-inch-high stack of paper went for recycling, and nearly everything else went in the filing cabinet, so I feel I achieved something useful.

I'm sure having to go through such huge piles of paper ought to teach me that I should just file things as I go along. However, given that it only took about an hour to file a heap of paper going back to June 2003, and doing all the filing in one go allowed me to get something useful done while watching the snooker, I can't really convince myself that it's a bad thing.

There are so many things I keep meaning to write about on LiveJournal. I think it's time for a poll, to ask my readership (dear readers!) what they want to read, out of the stuff that's currently wandering around in my head:

[Poll #288427]

I can't guarantee I'll actually get round to writing about any of these, but I'd be interested to know what people choose.

Comments

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

a six-inch-high stack of paper went for recycling

Focus-Do-It-All or whatever they're called this week have a 9.99 shredder. We got one. It's FUN! OK it can only do 5 sheets at a time and you're not supposed to let it get hot by running it for more than 4 minutes continuously, but what do you want for a tenner?

[j4.livejournal.com]

what do you want for a tenner?

A couple of CDs? A couple of paperbacks? Two or three items of clothing from a charity shop? New pair of cheap fun shoes? A badger? "Shoe Barbie" plus some extra Barbie accessories? An eyelet-punching tool? A couple of packs of propeller pencils, because I always seem to lose them?

what do you want for a tenner?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Pet dalek!

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[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

I was NOT trying to start a meme!

Re: what do you want for a tenner?

[ewx.livejournal.com]

Don't care, wanna pet dalek!

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[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Too late! [grin]

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[j4.livejournal.com]

I think it's more of a meme if you don't try to start it...

[juliet]

Is it wrong to be interested in hearing what you have to say about all the above?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

What she said! [grin]

[reddragdiva]

I'll second that. I read for the way that you do it, not the what you do.

[claerwen.livejournal.com]

OK, so I was going to tick all the boxes, but then I read your next post, so I have helpfully ticked only four. I really want to know why, in the name of all that is holy, badgers, when you could have SHEEP?

And I didn't really know what you meant by three of the other things, so I ticked them because I thought that could be interesting.

Baa!

[j4.livejournal.com]

Badgers are intelligent and interesting and stripy and cool. Sheep are just meat-and-two-cardigans on legs. :)

[claerwen.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes, stripes, hadn't thought of that. Stripy things are good.

However, I deplore your off-hand dismissal of cardigans.

[nja.livejournal.com]

Yes, more stuff about badgers. My little brother has never forgiven my parents, they took me and middle brother into the Dorset woods at midnight to sacrifice us to Beelzebub watch badgers. And we saw them.

Mum knitted me a badger when I was very little. Middle brother got a rat, ha ha. (Wind in the Willows - had little brother been alive he would have probably got a toad, ha ha ha).

[rmc28]

I ticked everything because it's you and you tend to be interesting, whatever you're writing about.

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

AOL. Your contributions are always worth reading, Jan.
But if it came to choosing just one of those things, well it would have to be a further explanation of the badger obsession. Just about beats the more conventional and salacious suggestions into second place.
Oh, and I heard good reports re John Martyn elsewhere, I take it that the old bugger was on form for the Cambridge gig. Good to hear Danny Thompson's there.