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When I was looking at Ruby’s latest post, I also saw her last one which I’d missed.

What a relief to find that I am not a freak and a failure!

Over the last couple or three weeks I’ve been attempting to do some family history research and simultaneously to organize vertically lots of old family photos and of course all that has happened is that I have lost sight of the living room carpet, the coffee table, and the whole of one settee.

It’s not all photos and census records of course, because in that time other things have come in that wanted attention too - Road Tax reminder, music course acceptance, the Spirograph set my son got for his birthday (his 21st ), my wedding anniversary chocolates.

By chance my husband is also a horizontal organiser. So our house is full of piles of things which one day are supposedly going to be organised vertically in the study. Oh yes the study, which at the moment is full of horizontally organised building and decorating materials for both the potential study and the bathroom. Oh yes the bathroom, where because of genetics, my sons have left serially horizontally organised damp towels, so there is no real need for horizontal floor covering. You can see we’ve got this down to a fine art in our family. See here.

However, as Ruby says, now it has a name, it’s no longer a failing, it’s a syndrome upon which I can see I have capitalised (when it’s not been raining) when I’ve taken all the vertically organised weeds, and redundant external building materials and organised them horizontally in the skip.

I feel so much better about it all now.