I’m sure that supermarkets
used to provide cardboard boxes at the checkouts for those occasions when a
carrier bag just wouldn’t do or you were moving house. Although I’m not that
fond of the places I do have to pop in from time to time, and today I discovered
that the Asda nearest to me has returned to the system of letting customers
take their shopping out in a box. I am trying to sort my office out and at the
same time collect together and catalogue something resembling an archive, so I
now have a Walkers crisps box (they didn’t use an apostrophe so I won’t either,
I have never liked their attitude and have never trusted them but I needed a
box) in my office that will soon be full of stuff that is otherwise cluttering
the place up. When I say ‘cataloguing’, I am really just writing a list of
everything that goes in the box, surely that’s enough? I’m still not sure of
the best place to leave it to, as I want my ‘work’ archive to stay together in
one place, so it will have to accommodate my written work and my radio
recordings. There will also be several flyers and cuttings relating to
Nottingham and its music scene, hand written notes, theatre programmes, cinema
and theatre tickets, various passes for shows, scripts, letters, diaries,
notebooks and artwork. Hopefully it will provide some kind of interest when I’m
dead, as it would be a shame if the house clearance people just put it in a
skip and destroyed it. Hopefully Emily will take over the managing of the
family photograph collection which goes back to my great grandparents, which
leaves my music collection, books, and my DVD and VHS collection. Part of the
music collection will be included as part of the work archive, as it contains
music I have been sent over the years, and a library of Nottingham music that
runs into thousands of songs. I hope that Emily will find room for the box of
memories relating to her that I have, (notes, drawings, and letters) she seemed
genuinely interested when I showed it to her last time she was here.
This is the sort of procrastination
exercise that I get too involved in when I have far more pressing matters in
hand, such as deadlines. I have only recorded one episode of Steve’s LP Box, and still need to do a Dickens audio book
before the end of the year. I am actually starting to feel an immense amount of
pressure when it comes to looking at what I have yet to do work-wise; podcasts,
sketches, filming; it is all starting to get a bit too much. It therefore
stands to reason that I should spend the whole day tidying up my office
instead.
In fact, I am so far behind
with stuff that I even took the ridiculous step of starting a pointless new blog that I know nobody will read. This is based on a photo album that I have
on my official Facebook page, (feel free to ‘like’ if you’re still using
Facebook) and thought that a blog format was a bit tidier. I have every
confidence that this blog will be a waste of time, but that isn’t going to stop
me in any way. It will stop me from getting proper work done though.
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