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Before and progress, sadly no after

19^th August 2023

Originally posted on Discuit
I mentioned in the CasualUK disc that today I was headed to my parents' house to sort through my old "artwork". My sibling also attended, and it turns out there was a lot more than we thought.

The Before Pile
Piled on two old dust sheets, a large plastic bag with paper spilling out, two A3-sized plastic briefcase things, and a loose pile of large papers. It looks quite compact, but it was a lot!

Piled on two old dust sheets, a large plastic bag with paper spilling out, two A3-sized plastic briefcase things, and a loose pile of large papers. It looks quite compact, but it was a lot!

My mum is very sentimental and wasn't quite ready to just trash things, so we had to check for names and dates on everything before we added it to the "bin" pile.

The Progress Pile
A washing basket full to the brim with paper, a loose pile of large art pieces, a different full plastic bag, and a few loose pieces on top of the plastic cases.

A washing basket full to the brim with paper, a loose pile of large art pieces, a different full plastic bag, and a few loose pieces on top of the plastic cases.

The contents of the washing basket will be dumped into the recycling bin. I've been promised that the three large bits on the right will be trashed once they've been photographed. We never even opened the red cases.

But! We made progress, and that's what counts! And had a fun time laughing at how.. suggestive some of our innocent childhood scribbles were ("a sheep climbing a horse", eh?)