It's a Wrap!

A grey and wet day so time to blip my wrap! 
There was a birthday do for an acquaintance today in the village - with food and a clothes and book swop. I know the woman - a committed vegan and Earth person whose house and prayer flags I have blipped! - but not well but she did send me an invite via Vegan Jo. I wasn't sure i was in the mood for it, but it did galvanise me to sort out some clothes as Vegan Jo was calling in for coffee on her way there. Well! I went through my jumpers and cardigans like a dose of salts! They covered the entire double bed in my spare room, in colour stacked piles! Some were my mums that I have not worn at all but somehow couldn't let go of. Today I told myself not to be so sentimental, my mother was certainly not and would be both amused and appalled at my hoarding! I take after my dad in that respect! I do wear his jumpers on the allotment which would please him! 
Vegan Jo and her friend The wannabee Calstockian, called in for a coffee - looking well wet! Once the wannabee had looked at my knitting and I promised to email her patterns, I took them upstairs. Jo took 2/3 of the stuff! Either for her or her girls - if she wavered wannabee and I told her to take it and if she changed her mind she could take them  to the next clothes swop or a charity shop - just not to return them to me!
I'm getting pretty good at this decluttering thing! I did my freezer the other day - found fish dated 2013!!I knew it was old but not even I realised just how old!  I realise how much on hold my life and living arrangements have been for quite a number of years - since my mums death in fact. I feel like I am now sloughing off all the things that have been weighing me down for many years due to my circumstances and of course Friends. 
It seems deeply ironic that with the world heading into such a perilous state I should be getting my own life into perspective and a better shape. But it does mean I can now look at all that is happening and rather than being further depressed, feeling helpless and hopeless  or made angry I can look for things I can actually do to try and influence a change. I watched with great pleasure how the petition to stop Trump paying a state visit grew in the number of signatures over the course of today.
So my word for this year, as inspired by Nickimags888 entry at the beginning of the year, is simplicity.