Today was the day to get into The Archive and try and figure out how I am going to get everything straight in here. Perhaps the collapsing shelf situation has been a blessing in disguise because it’s made me reassess, which albums go where, how the shelves are secured and how am I going to find space when I move the records from the collapsing shelf so they can be secured. Space has been one of the issues. I have to empty the shelves to get them fixed, but I have to take thousands of records out and put them somewhere - welcome to The Leaning Shelves of Porto, it might get the tourists in. But the real skill will be in figuring out how to make The Archive essential.
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