Decorating update →[More:]I'm at that horrible point where I'm clearing out tons of junk and there is chaos and mess everywhere. I sorted out all my clothes today, bagged up two sacks for charity, but forgot about the shoes, which I'll do later.

Bloody typical, usually there's something through the door from a charity saying "we'll be collecting old clothes, bric-a-brac, etc. in this area on xxxxday" but not this week. I might have to take it to Oxfam myself, but parking there is a bastard.

I took my old 19" CRT monitor, an ancient (and huge) scanner and a broken old Windows Me computer down to the local council dump, along with an old clothes horse and a couple of boxes of suspension files. There's a section where you can put to one side the stuff that's still good, so the guys there helped me stack it all up for people to take it if they want it.

I cut my finger carrying something, it was probably a sharp edge on the inside of the computer (the outer casing is off it), but I didn't notice until I saw the blood dripping off my hand. Eeew.

Then I took an old video cabinet down to the garage. It's part of the furniture that my ex-husband is having (he chose it when we moved here, and I always thought it was old-fashioned). There's a couple of small side tables I can take down to the garage myself, but I'll need some help with the big stuff, so will have to see if I can find someone to help me with it.

I found the shed key!! A bit late now, though, I had to replace the lock on the shed 18 months ago when I lost the key. And I found the cats' favourite catnip mouse, so they love me again now.

The plan is that I'm painting this room all white - it gets all the afternoon sunshine, so it can stand being white. I was going to have a wood-effect floor laid, but on lifting up the horrible mustard nylon carpet, I saw that there's a thick underfelt which is, I think, stuck down. So I asked the flooring people if the wood floor can go over that, and they said no.

Plan B, I'll put carpet down in here instead, unless the underfelt scrapes off really easily. But I suspect it won't, so I think I'll leave well alone and carpet over it.

Paint is bought, some clearing still to do, but I was up at 6am (thank you cats) and am done with the heavy work for today. I have a load of old paperwork to sort out, so this evening I'll set the shredder up next to me on the sofa, and shred away while I'm watching TV.