The bulging van that is also suffering from biffage

The process of loading up the van again this morning took some time. Whilst doing this I managed to lose my wallet in the process and much time was spent looking for it. After the tide of rising panic ensued, I was finally calmed by Clare finding my wallet. Not a usual place for a wallet, nor have I done this before, but for some reason I had placed it in the freezer compartment of the fridge in the van. Aside from this, we did well. I did however have a chance to reflect on the bulging sides of the van. On every shelf, behind every cupboard, in the secret compartments, in pockets here and there, there seems to be a huge amount of the collected stuff. Up until now, we have managed to hide most of it, but like the jeans that get too tight, the button is about to pop off! As I sit here in the rear of the van in Osnabruck at 6pm, an outside temperature of 6.5 degrees (warm!), I can see the results of this blobbing out of stuff around us. Firstly, Lego is everywhere, we can't contain its expansion around the van. There is Jasper's Colosseum model he built in Italy above me one shelf, baskets from Bangladesh (don't ask) on the shelf opposite, prints and paintings stuffed behind the Colosseum, a collection of sticks from who knows where but they are 'important' ones for some reason, a Venetian Gondoliers hat, origami paper, leaflets of every kind from everywhere, more flipping Lego, a Ferrari, a rat made of bread, books, more books, a key on a fob that was washed up on the shore at Manfredonia with rusty keys, a flat football and the list goes on in a 'Generation Game' type of style. These are some of the things we can see, although it's the things that we can't see that we have forgotten about that worries me. 'Unwrapping' Hugo will be fun, but could take some time!