Household Tetris

Another week older, another no show lottery win, and another governmental shenanigans to add to the raging cluster-fuck that is Tory Britain.

A government with a big majority, that can vote through the lowering of food standards in a blink, but has no authority to tell anyone what to do day to day any longer. The feeling in our now very busy part of London appears to be; Lockdown? Eff off. Self isolate? Go do one.

While this political car crash is playing out in slow motion, Cornflake and I have been cleaning. It’s as good a way as any to spend our extra spare time. I had thought I’d do more cleaning now that I have weekends free, and no museums, bars or museum bars, to frequent. Obviously lack of time wasn’t the only thing stopping me vacuuming those cobwebs off the ceiling.

I’ve never played Tetris but I know what it is.

Frenchie is good at it and has suggested that I’d be good at it too. She bases this opinion almost solely on my ability to pack a small car with camping equipment. I apply these packing skills to all spaces. Cars, suitcases, home, they all get the same treatment. Cupboard space is sparse chez Tart, so I have to use it well. We have no garden, no shed, there are times when the boot of my car necessarily becomes my outhouse.

I have an actual storage unit too, packed solid, awaiting the time when I can find, and set up my new studio. Soon.

I tell you this so that you can appreciate that moving furniture to clean in our flat takes a long time. Five hours to clean half of the bedroom. It was exercise enough for me to forego my walk.

I’m relatively good at giving stuff away, taking trips to the tip etc, but there are some items that I keep, stacked and stashed, over and over again.

Some items I have an emotional attachment to and some, well, they might come in handy.

When? And to who? When will anyone need that radio, iPad, iPhone charger/player with the old apple connection? My Dad’s collection of bird magazines? That exercise thing that you stand on and wiggle?

Impossible to answer but at least it’s all clean now.

This armoire is a visualisation of the contents of out home.