Has anybody got a pair of loppers? I need to cut my bush.

Surely you responded to that.

My mom will kill me!

You can teach a chimpanzee to write Shakespeare, can't you?

No, apparently you can't, Maria. I hate to be the one to break it to you.

Hello and a very warm welcome to your weekly dose of wanging on with Graham and Maria. Well, that's us. If you're looking for half-baked advice, this is the place to come. Yes, it is. How are you? I'm all right, thank you very much. I'm very frazzled. That's what I was waiting. Are you in moving hell? We are attempting to move.

I mean, listen, we're very, very lucky in that we're able to move kind of slowly bit by bit.

Yeah, yeah, whatever.

But the house that we're moving out of.

Yes.

Which I didn't think had that much stuff in it.

Oh, Gryam.

So filled with stuff.

You've been there 20 years.

Yeah.

But books and things, I understand. Books

you take with it. But it's the cupboards with kind of, you know, one plate of a set of plates

that I had 30 years ago. There's a reason you kept it, though. Well, not anymore.

Ah, is that gone? I'm trying. I am trying. I would imagine you're more brutal about chucking things away than your husband. Men, he's being all right, actually. I think because a lot of it is my old stuff. Yes. So, you know, he's got no... Letters from old boyfriends, things like that. He loves to read those. We'll keep all of these. No. So it's, yeah, I think because it's my self, he's got no emotional attachment to it. So I, he's not bothered, but I am having to get through it all. And it strikes me that a house, I always think it's like a handbag. You know, no matter what size of a handbag you have, you'll fill it. And I think it's the same with a house. So I now discover I am a hoarder just with a big house. So it is all in cupboards because there were a lot of cupboards. And people say what money does is it buys you space. You know, the more money you have, the bigger the house, bigger the spaces you have. But then you fill them and make them tiny spaces because there's everything there and a bureau there and a desk over there and bookshelves there. And suddenly the spaces gets smaller. It's a madness, isn't it, really?

It is a mental thing. And actually, I think I'm okay because I am being good and throwing a lot of stuff away and selling things and getting rid of things. Because when you see those, they don't do that show anymore. You know the one where they used to put everything out, they used to take everything out of your house. Yes. And then you had to decide what was going back in. Yes. Is that Stacey Solomon? No, she does something similar.

Yeah.

Is that what you eat or something? Does she put all the food you've eaten all week? No, no, no, no. You put everything in a big warehouse so it looks even more. And then you have to go through it all. But you do it outside of the house itself. And then you have to, I think they have to get rid of a fifth or something. I just remember you'd see people kind of sneaking into the tent at night.

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