Technology marches on The house is pretty much back to normal now.
All the boxes we intend to keep are re-packed, taped, and stacked neatly in the workshop end of the garage. The floors are swept clean and clear and I shall have a grand cleaning session on Monday or Tuesday to restore the joint to a civilised state. It was a domino job of course. To make room for the new storage stack we took the vast majority of the stuff to the town dump where the salvage people graded and separated it. Much of it is to go off to specialist merchants for salvage, re-use and selling on.