7 mouthfuls of the Elephant

How much of the 'elephant' is eaten after seven days?
I am reminded of a saying given to me by one of my daughters:

Think not how far you have to travel, look rather at how far you have come.

I haven't found a source for it, but another one which is equally apt is from Confucius:

It doesn't matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

at the end of this first week when the re-cycing box is not yet full, I need to keep these quotes in mind.

Today's Items:

CHEQUE
Dated 1964, this was a joke cheque given to me by Tony's father not long after we were married.

SONG
Words of a song. At this website it give a date of 1975 when the Swarbriggs sang this song for Ireland in Eurovision. Did I type it myself, or did someone give it to me? That was a year when I had treatment for depression.

NOTEBOOK
Another of those domestic notebooks circa 1974 or 1975. The one of the open pages shows some occasion when I had to rest a sore throat, and communicated by writing. The other page has reminders of tasks I needed to do.
The loose pages are similar, but from different dates. They most refer to recording what I spent money on. It took me a while to remember that 'Hughes' is the milkman.

LIST
The list on the right side of the image is one of the Archival lists mentioned in yesterday's entry. The items mentioned haven't yet come to light, but the fact that the list is here probably means that the box in which it was (Box 60) has been opened during the course of the NCAD version of Wrinkley's Playhouse.

CALCULATIONS
This paper shows my efforts to come to terms with how a mortgage works. What is amazing is to look at the cost of the house: £3000. You can also see the variable interest rate, though later I seem to remember this rate was fixed at 9.5% for which we were very grateful when the rate went higher and higher during the 1980's.