My last day at my old job was Friday. So now I am currently out of work, with a lot of packing ahead of me. Only 13 days to go until I fly out to Canada to start my new life.

Today I was up in the loft, working on cleaning up all the spider webs, and sorting out all the boxes we've stored up there over the years. I'm also sawing the ends off the horizontal roof beams that jut out into the loft, just waiting for someone to bang their head into them.

I started quite late today, so I'll try to get up earlier tomorrow morning and give myself more time... otherwise I'll just run out of days to get everything done in; and that would be bad.

As I'll be storing the majority of my belongings due to be shipped over to Canada when they can be in my parents' loft, I needed to clear out some of the crap we/I've accumulated. I completed half of the clearance over the weekend just gone, so now one end of the loft is totally empty, with all the icky spider webs vacuumed up and all the sawdust, gravel and everything else swept up.

The other half of the loft is full of spider webs, and empty boxes. Cleaning that half is not going to be fun. Luckily the vacuum has a long extension to the hose so I can keep my distance and not get covered in spider webs. Bleh!

The job will be made harder by the fact that there are roofing beams jutting out waiting for you to bang your head on, which I managed to do yesterday... it hurt. I think I might take a saw into the loft next time and cut off the dangerous bits. We removed a couple years ago, but using a hand saw was way too much work in those cramped conditions, maybe a jigsaw might be easier to handle.

I'll have to make a start on the other half soon, as I leave for Canada in less than a month.