Author Archives: john graham

SCRAP Step 31 —- Clutter Lessens

Posted on April 18, 2017 by john graham

I seem to have been at this de-cluttering lark for an age.    What have I learned so far ? FOCUS —- stay on a narrow track when you are de-cluttering.    It is all too easy to get deflected … Continue reading →

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Social Care Straws in the Wind

Posted on April 16, 2017 by john graham

Social care for older people is in a mess.     An almost permanent hotchpotch of indecision and political prevarication.    The truth is nobody much cares about older voters until elections come around. The NHS does as little social care … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 30 – Travel Books.

Posted on April 13, 2017 by john graham

Walking through your travel books is like walking through the leisurely chapters of your life.    Whenever we go on holiday I always collect tourist books and maps either before we travel or more likely when we get there.   … Continue reading →

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Tidy Bears and Flower Vases

Posted on April 11, 2017 by john graham

The Bears are continuing there relentless search for clutter to de-clutter. Peter Rabbit and is the smart one in the team and he thought they should change their name to the Tidy Bears.     “That would leave John totally responsible  for all the … Continue reading →

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Older People are CLUTTER

Posted on April 9, 2017 by john graham

For weeks now I have been writing about clutter and in the meantime politicians have been assailed from all sides by concerns about the perilous situation of funding for social care for older people.  Then it occurred to me that … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Cleaning Materials

Posted on April 6, 2017 by john graham

Way back on Step 22 of John’s de-cluttering journey he thought he had de-cluttered the clutter of  cleaning materials.    How wrong can you be? The clutter Bears have now taken over and are going to be much more thorough than … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Origami

Posted on April 4, 2017 by john graham

In our last Bear blog you may have noticed that Little Ted was not in the photograph.  Actually he doesn’t like cleaning toilets anymore than John does, but Little Ted thinks he knows rather more interesting Japanese tidying techniques than cleaver clogs John. So he sneeked … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears and Toilet Rolls

Posted on April 2, 2017 by john graham

This time John has a little help from his bear friends, because this de-cluttering is becoming unbearable.    We will continue to apply John’s Japanese management techniques and find a simple bear solution.    This should be interesting because we will use a quality improvement … Continue reading →

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Clutter Bears Take Over

Posted on April 1, 2017 by john graham

George Simons started all this off with his great idea about a crash pad for teddy bears.   Then John suggested the crash pad might be in the garden shed, but we’re certainly not happy with that and before John … Continue reading →

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Clutter Teddies

Posted on March 30, 2017 by john graham

Following on from my last post.   Seems like these little guys rather like Georges’ idea of a cushion crash pad, although they definitely don’t want it to be in the garden shed. That would be cruelty to animals ! … Continue reading →

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