Pics for posterity

As we get older our [not your] adult children are getting increasingly cross about The Clutter. There are three in that F.1 [1st Filial generation] and the most direct said "Hey, get your shit together, why should I have to process it at the same time as my grief?". errrm, quite so.All those books I bought in a pre-digital age were snatched from yard-sale oblivion because they were worth 50c to Future Me or Future Children: Historical atlases, Teach Yourself Swahili, forgotten classics by Peter Fleming, Pierre van Paassen, WW Jacobs. None of these are available in the County Library but the information is [more easily] accessible on-line . . . somewhere. 15 years ago, I cd have been convinced to dump the lot. Less so now that a free infinite forever internet is less credible. But feckit, _I_ - nor any of mine - will not be learning Swahili [nor Romanian, nor Japanese] and I rarely re-read any books. I owe nothing to roaming bands clad in dog-skin and dodging zombies: they can find…