GAP years usually happen either when you are very young or rather old - now that we have our laptops we can take our jobs with us and go now - well soon. We need to do a bit of preparation and planning first.
If we are going to up sticks for a year, and rent our house out, we must get rid of 'stuff'. This is notoriously difficult. There are whole books written about it - TV programmes devoted to it - people who can't stop buying and who cant bear to sell, give or throw away... anything.
When we moved into our current house, the most significant plus point in our family's eyes was the very large loft. Our grown up children coveted this space as a handy storage area and immediately began to take possession of it.
Books, papers, clothes that 'might be handy' one day, baby clothes and equipment that would do for the 'next one' or a friends 'next one'. I am equally guilty. Art and craft equipment and accumulated sewing fabrics; the loom; the spinning wheel along with breadmaker, spare duvets, most of the contents of our former holiday cottage, even the previous owners floor tiles and curtain poles are up there. In fact the only person in the entire family not guilty of chucking any items surplus to current life requirements up there is Julian. A modest photo album and CD collection are the sum total of his excess possessions.
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