To illustrate the point . . . this is a photo
of my husband (being proud of a squash he has grown)
. . . in our kitchen . . . with our usual level of 'clutter'.
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About Me
- Susan Harwood
- It's one of those odd things . . . I live in my little house by the sea and listen to the radio and reckon I know best about more-or-less everything . . . as I keep telling the news-casters, the policiticians and all the experts interviewed there. I shout quite loud - but I'm beginning to suspect they can't hear! Sometimes, I write to my MP . . . but there's always more to say. So, here it is!
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14 comments:
Certainly does!!
My house is full of clutter, what does that mean??!
I found you via Casdok. I noticed that you say you have epilepsy. So do I. Fortunately, I am well controlled by Tegretol Retard but I do have many absent seizures daily, not that they interfere with my life however.
Sleep is an important factor, as mentioned on Casdok's' blog.
Crystal Jigsaw
Hell Casdok.
Hello Crystal Jigsaw.
Crystal . . . I don't know what your clutter means but at least some of ours is from tasks which have been left unfinished when I've had a fit!
Then, there are the sweet papers shoved between the chair and the bookcase - they mean my daughter is saying she is old enough to eat whatever she chooses but feels guilty about it all the same!
My husband's desk is about two foot high in papers and box files from the work he does in inventing board games.
My son's clutter is from the games he plays with his friends. When he finishes with something, he simply opens the door, chucks it onto the hall or living room floor - then goes off to collect something else.
Then, there are things which remind us of the past - the wooden money box from before I went to school, the books which have belonged to four generations, both in my family and my husband's, the mediaeval nails and bits of roman tile we have unearthed and the fossils and interesting pebbles we have found on the beach.
Our clutter builds up in sedimental layers.
Above all, for us, it is a statement that we like the look of 'things' . . . a rebellion against perfect houses and minimalism . . . and an affirmation that we can think of more interesting things to do than housework!
Susan
This made me smile.
I love your one-liner blogs!
That's a form of minimalism, isn't it? ;-)
Oh, Casdok . . . sorry for my spelling mistake when I said 'hello'!
Susan
Lisa
So glad to make you smile.
So glad you like the one liners!
You've caught me out there. I suppose they are a from of minimalism.
But . . . more seriously . . .
I hope my one liners tend to open things out . . . whereas minimalism can be oppressive.
If all the things from my small, happily cluttered house were transported into a bigger one - they would 'disappear' into the cupboards.
In other words, you have to be rich to be minimalist . . . unless you decide to own virtually nothing . . . which quite a lot of people do decide because they have been fooled into thinking this is the only way to make your house look nice.
But if you have nothing in your house except for the television, then that is what becomes the centre of all thought and conversation.
I don't know what I would think if I lived in America but, here in England, I definitely see it as a political matter.
People who's families have been traditionally poor and have previously owned very little are now being encouraged to see 'having nothing' as a 'life-style' choice.
They are then encouraged to clean the little they have as furiously as they can.
(There are even shows on the television and articals in magazines about how to clean your house!)
It is (I think) extraordinarily unhealthy.
I don't know whether obsessive-complusive disorder is on the rise nationally, but it is certainly a problem acknowledged by some of our neighbours.
I have friends whose relationship broke up when one of them walked into the kitchen from the garden in muddy shoes.
Susan
P.S. This is specially for Lisa . . . I woke up this morning wondering whether making petit-fours would be a good way of getting extra nutrition into my sweet-toothed daughter . . . almonds etc.
Dear Susan,
Thanks for your message on my blog. I have enjoyed visiting you space and I liked it. I am also (and so it seems you are as well), interested in politics (and the environment, building, architecture, education which you also list amongst your interests), as life IS about decisions…
I also liked your books. Very impressive. Well done! I enjoy painting and drawing and have written a short story (in Italian) … and another one for children (but in Spanish, this time), is an ongoing project. Sorry, have not written anything ‘interesting’ in English, but essays and dissertation.
So it seems we have a few things in common …let alone we have been neighbours for a while as I used to live ‘next door’, in Hampshire …Soton, to be precise. Both Dorset and Hampshire are amazing Counties, in my opinion. You are lucky to live there.
I’d like to add a link to your blog in mine http://piero-ruju-art.blogspot.com and http://pieroruju.blogspot.com , so please let me know whether this is ok with you. Should this be fine I will update my links to include your web addresses.
I will also try to be present by posting my comments in the discussions put forward by your posts… and the ‘minimalism’ issue.
Kind Regards,
Piero
I shout at the radio and the television, you are not alone. Clutter is my middle name.
Happy blogging.
Mrs S.
Got to have some clutter i just cant relax if a place doesnt feel homely and lived in.;0)
My son has focal epilepsy but luckly is not too intrusive so no meds.we keep our fingers crossed it stays that way as my dad had epilepsy real bad.
Dear Susan,
Thanks for your message.
Links to your blog SHOUTING AT THE RADIO have now been added in my bogs.
Regards,
Piero
Mrs Smallprint
Hello.
I took a look at your blog . . . and enjoyed it . . . even though our political approach is very different and I might find myself 'Shouting at Mrs Smallprint's Blog' in the same way as I shout at the radio!
I particularly liked the picture that identifies you and goes with your name. Is it you?
To me, it sums up something about the way people (including most of us for a lot of the time) react to public issues. We read notices . . . and wander on to the next thing . . . which is probably something mundane like buying a pint of milk.
I also like your list which explains what a billion is. You are right. It's hard to get a realistic sense of scale about public spending. I can never 'get my head round' the meaning of 'a billion'.
I'm glad you have clutter . . .
I'd be interested to know if you have any comments to make in the section about SHEDS.
I know you care about your garden and, the more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that gardens are essential to humans.
Kate
Clutter . . . I'm glad you have clutter too . . .
I'm sorry your son has epilepsy though.
Mine is 'temporal lobe' epilepsy. It means I loose all muscle tone, often without warning - and simply flop to the floor! Although I can hear what is going on around me, I can't respond. Then, when I 'come round' I can't speak properly or walk along for a while . . . and am weak and need to sleep a lot for several days afterwards.
The downside is that it makes me unemployable.
The good thing is that because my muscles go floppy I am less likely to hurt myself than people who have the more commonly known forms.
I do hope your son's doesn't develop in the way your dad's has. People have tried to encourage me by saying people like Napolean and Julius Caesar had epilepsy. (I wish they could think of some less military examples!) But I've found I can only live at peace with it by accepting that I've got it for life and that, given that I'm me (and not Napolean!) it simply does alter and limit my life, whether I like it or not . . .
If ever it were suddenly to 'stop' . . . that would be a bonus . . . but to hope for that simply plunges one into a life of perpetual disappointment!
Susan
Clutter: "A collection of things lying about in an untidy state" - Oxford Dictionary of English. History is clutter.
People who like SHOUTING AT THE RADIO may also like LUCY AND ESTHER TAKE ON THE ELECTION
Susan
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