Author Archives: john graham

SCRAP Step 26 Taking Stock Again

Posted on March 19, 2017 by john graham

It is now three months since I started my war on clutter.    It is time to review how I am getting on, because it is taking a lot of time and effort and things don’t seem a lot different. … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 25 – Books

Posted on March 16, 2017 by john graham

The Japanese method of de-cluttering suggests you start with books.    I didn’t do that because I have so many books and such a strong attachment to them, that it would have been too difficult.     Add to this, … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 24 – Cards

Posted on March 14, 2017 by john graham

Today  I am sorting a drawer full of cards that my wife Mo buys with her shopaholic skills —– everywhere she goes. Mo has cards for every occasion  :- Birthdays —  from giving birth, to first baby, grandson, granddaughter, then … Continue reading →

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Welsh Housing Report 3

Posted on March 12, 2017 by john graham

Over the past two weekends I have been offering my thoughts on the recently published report ” OUR HOUSING AGENDA: MEETING THE ASPIRATIONS OF OLDER PEOPLE IN WALES “.     It is a comprehensive and ambitious effort to build a … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 23 – Screwdrivers

Posted on March 9, 2017 by john graham

You can never have too many screwdrivers.    I have probably got more screwdrivers than I have got screws. Most rooms in our house have a drawer with a screwdriver in it somewhere.    The trouble is that when you … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 22 Cleaning Materials

Posted on March 7, 2017 by john graham

It is March and I am forging on with my de-cluttering with some spring cleaning.      You would think with all this clutter we might have a cleaning problem, but as they say “ours is a clean house ours … Continue reading →

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Welsh Older People’s Housing 2

Posted on March 5, 2017 by john graham

This is the second post on the housing proposals in a report being considered by the Welsh Assembly.    This time it is all about the numbers, which is the acid test of whether aspiration can become reality.  All too … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 21 – Glasses

Posted on March 2, 2017 by john graham

You can never have too many glasses.      I don’t know who said that, but he must have lived in our house at one time, because we have enough of them for a royal wedding. Where did they all … Continue reading →

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SCRAP Step 20 – Kitchen Wine Rack

Posted on February 28, 2017 by john graham

Today’s de-cluttering task is in the kitchen, with the one item of equipment that I claim responsibility for — the wine rack.    It has been specially made to fit at the end of the island work top.   It was … Continue reading →

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Welsh Older People’s Housing 1

Posted on February 26, 2017 by john graham

Last week I wrote a scathing critique of the Governments White Paper on Housing and my view that it will do very little to improve the desperate shortage of housing for older people in the U.K.   At much the … Continue reading →

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