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Upheavals, false starts and deposits.
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Oct 1, 2014
My toilet stack will be demolished next week, and I have very little time to get all my belongings out of it. 
After a couple of false starts I eventually put down a £25 deposit for a "self storage" unit that'll run to nearly £3K per year, plus vat. 
Just *after* I had paid the deposit, the Council said they might have a "small 1-man office" going for £2K a year, *including* VAT. 
I'm trying to arrange a viewing of the Council place by Monday. If it doesn't have any stairs, and they'll have me, I'll take it for a year, give up on the self-storage deposit and get all the stuff from my stair cupboard, shed, hall and bedroom shipped there. (My Social Worker(!) says she can organise a couple of burly guys with transport through a charity at no cost to me... 
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The idea is that I can work my way through the boxes there one day a week, and it'll free up enough space for me to move around the flat (and allow proper access for a cleaner) during that time. I worked out roughly that at a day a week it'd take me ten months or so, and rounding it up to cover weeks where medical appointments tie me up every day takes it to a full year.
Other than that , I finally made a start to tidying the living room - various laptops, power supplies and tablets are now in the first under-couch storage box! 
I'm off to crash now. It's a slightly early night because I need to be up an hour early tomorrow. 
I watched most of "Operation Petticoat", "Agents of SHIELD", "Chicago PD" and "Scott & Bailey". 
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