What with the freezing temperatures and coronavirus I decided to tackle a long overdue job - sorting out photos. Nowadays in our digital world photos are hardly ever looked at, hidden away on computers, left to rot in old cameras or never to be used hard drives, stored somewhere in the stratosphere, but there is nothing quite like handling actual photos. The downside, of course, is photograph albums are cumbersome, heavy and take up an inordinate amount of space. I keep mine in a wooden chest. Some photos are in albums, labelled by country, although I have failed to date them or put names to babies and children so, although I know which is which, those who come after me won't have a clue. I was horrified to find that I had about fifty packets of photos so I decided to tackle them first. I threw out pictures of mountains and lakes simply because they all look the same and I have no idea which country we were living in or visiting at the time. I also got rid of photos of people long forgotten or did not want to remember. I know it is terrible but who needs photos of old lovers?
As I picked my way through decades of photos I came across some gems, of my children and my grandchildren, and they were gems not in a complimentary way. I captured some of them on my phone and put them on the family WhatsApp but I have kept some back. I may need them in the future to blackmail them.
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