Barnstorming

Our barn becomes the resting place, temporary or permanent, for items that fall into disuse but are retained in anticipation of potential future need, no matter how remote that possibility – toys, bikes, golf clubs, racquets for tennis, squash & badminton, paint of various hues, empty boxes whose gadget’s longevity remains in doubt, cables for unknown IT, obsolete IT, books, long playing records; the list is endless, but my wife’s patience is not, so periodically we have a barnstorming session like today’s to thin out the accumulation and produce three piles to go – one for back into the house (small), one for the charity shop (medium), and one for the tip (large).