Thursday 16th May

 I keep wanting to sing bits of hymns and songs...

'My chains fell off, mt heart was free '

and why?

A trip to Oxfam, unloading stuff for their charity shop;

That previous picture was just a taster; how about the boot?

I have no idea how many bags, full to bursting. Books, shoes, clothes, bric-a-brac, music teaching books, sheet music... (the rest of the family needn't panic, none of it was theirs, I promise)

Probably over a dozen. So that's more than fulfilled my annual New Year's resolution of '2 bags of anything' removed from the house per month. There have already been bags and bags of sheet music handed over to a younger piano teaching colleague, and quantities of music posted to former piano students, and bags of books to Cancer Research, British Heart and Ziffit, so if I have fallen short back in previous years, I have more than made up for it now.

After taking several years to bring myself to be able to separate myself from quite a lot of things for sentimental reasons, I feel all the better for having let go.

I've finished that doodle art page I started last week, and stuck washi tape on the next page all ready for action.

Just experimenting....