Blue sky over the Farmers’ Market

When we went out this morning, the sun was shining from a beautiful clear blue sky.

Cafe Sizzles

Once again, we went to Cafe Sizzles for brunch. Again today, they brought us our tea (one with milk, one black) without our needing to ask.

Activity in the Farmers’ Market

The Farmers’ Market was fairly busy with several stalls selling specialised products not available in the main market.

In Sainsbury’s

After brunch, we went to Sainsbury’s as usual for our weekly shopping run. We each had a list of items to collect and then joined together for the rest. This is an efficient way of doing the job and we had soon finished.

Passing through Chapel Market

After our session at Sainsbury’s, I hurried through Chapel. Market on my way to Mercer’s to pick up our coffee. Here too, I didn’t need to say what I wanted as they know me and produce our coffees without being asked.

Wild Kong
Richard Orlinski

I took this photo of Richard Orlinski’s Wild Kong when we were on the way, yet again, to Safestore. As Tigger is working tomorrow, today was the last day for shifting stuff to Safestore.

Corridor, Safestore

Safestore’s storage areas consist of four floors of lock-ups. These rows of yellow doors, distinguished from one another only by the individual number in each, can seem confusing until you learn the way to and from yours.

In addition to moving stuff into store, we also took another load to the charity shop.

We still have a few things left to do to prepare for the electricity inspection. Some of these – such as taking some discarded electrical items to the dump – I will do tomorrow. The rest (for example, with need to move our bed which blocks access to a power point) we will do together tomorrow evening and early Tuesday morning.

Once the inspection has been completed, we can start the next phase of activity. Guess what that is? Yes! Moving everything back from the store to home! We have rented our storage space until March 11th and have to have emptied the lock-up by close of business on that day though we could, if necessary, extend our contract on a daily basis.

And here is the traditional view of our storage space at end of work today. This is how it will stay until we start moving stuff out again.

Final state
Photo by Tigger

Tigger is responsible for fitting all these bags and boxes together in the available space. She seems to have a talent for it! It almost seems a shame to undo it all again later!