Just read "Small Town England".

Excellently hilarious and evocative.

Coffee on the keyboard after your one-liner about the maternal "desires" of those from Norfolk.

Tim Bradford = article - Saturday Guardian

Tim ... piles of unsorted, unkempt, stoopid paperwork. What you describe is exactly me... even doen to the description of the percentages of paper "bits". Including the largest ."bits of paper with ideas written on them". I did my tax return at 23.55 on the last day available. In fact, like many of the pleb class... I easily answered earnings for the year ... but semi=made up the rest... because it doesn't matter a jot, if it's out by 10 quid.

So - what has been MY answer to paper/docs build up ? Well... I have big Russian invasion-style attacks on it... and get all proud when the bin's full and the pile is stacked.
One other method is to go "nutty chancer" which I have done once. This involves shredding/chucking just about EVEYTHING that comes through the letter box ( that's not a chistmas/birthday card) without opening it. I did this for 2 months ... and there was only slight pain, where a cheque was involved... otherwise it worked... although the comfort of Direct Debits for bills helps with the confidence. With "ideas" I sent them to myself by text or email... and chocked up a hard drive with drivel. I have an inkling that posting "ideas" , notes, musings to your own page (Facebook, etc ) is probably sensible - but difficult if you don't give a shag about Facebook ( which I don't)

Anyway --- your article was excellent - and bang on the button.
Do anuvver one.

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