Good morning to every forum person on this lovely sunny and warm Autumn day, 25° here already.
Have have been a busy bee this morning, my washing machine was set doing it’s thing early, so all my laundry is on the line.
Yesterday arvo mowed all the grass or at least all I was going to mow so was pleased with that.
Then I filled my green bin with some branches and overgrown stuff I had collected, the residue went into my land fill bin. Yes, it is bin day tomorrow and unusually both my bins were put out before midday. Followed this up with brushing the path to get rid of the dead leaves they went into the compost.
Finally this morning I checked the electrical earth on my trailer (especially the aluminium mudguards that I use as a cooking surface) something I like to do occasionally for my own peace of mind. However I am frustrated and worried by the Queensland flooding with more rain there today, I suspect my plans for May are going to have to be postponed.
Anyway, I just rewarded myself with a bowl of ice cream! Not sure what this arvo will bring but I hope it involves more interesting events than the morning. At least the weekend beckons.
Have a lovely day, I expect for most of you things are warming up and the days getting longer.
Morning all – yes the sun is shining albeit still quite cold
Managed to find my way to and from the surgery without getting lost yesterday (my sense of direction must be improving!)
Enjoy your visit to the theatre Eliza – I always liked the Poirot stories
Yesterday was bin day here – general rubbish is collected every 2 weeks, food waste, garden waste and recycling are collected every week. There is talk of the general rubbish only being collected every 3 weeks, not something that would bother me but I do wonder how families would manage
Neighbour called in for coffee she brought in a bottle of wine as a thank you for looking after the beast – keep telling her it isn’t necessary!
Today’s plan is the regular weekly get together with the “girls” for coffee cake and gossip, followed by grocery shopping
I seem to have recovered from my minor lassitude of the past few days
I’ve had a shower & breakfast, and soon I’ll go into the town centre for a few errands - bank, library, make a dentist’s appointment … might even have a bar meal
Well that was my thoughts Bruce. Painting on plastic is a no no and just makes another job when it all peels orf…
Good morning everyone, my day has been turned upside down. I was due to drive a neighbour to hospital for an early appointment, something to do with her eyes but it was cancelled due to lack of staff. What the hell is happening to the NHS? My daughter also had an appointment cancelled due to a lack of staff…Anyway, haven’t done my walk so I’ll go now and I fancy a long un’…
Here’s a question for all of you photography buffs…What’s the point of having a camera on my new phone that takes photos in 50 mega pixel?
I save all my photos in 1 meg bytes and they download onto my laptop in a massive size and I have to resize them. and apart from that, it takes almost one month to download such a large photo…(well perhaps not a month but you know what I mean)
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People do paint their house number on their bins because they are all the same. You can even buy vinyl stickers to put on them though I have never seen anyone buy them.
Maybe I just don’t live in the kind of area where anyone would pay $40 when a slap of spare paint would do and if the council replace your bin you’d have to buy them again
Why would someone steal a garbage bin? the council just replace them if they are damaged. People number them so they get their own back, they are parochial like that. Silly really they are all identical.
No one would steal my red bin it is the smallest size there is but I still paint my number on it.
I painted my green waste bin in an elegant Calibri font
If you need to replace a stolen or lost bin it costs £25 round here Bruce. We also like to keep ours clean and some people just don’t care about the condition of their bin and they are in a disgraceful condition, and smelly…
You’d have to wonder how they get smelly, isn’t everything in a plastic bag or washed (for recycling)? I have never cleaned my bins but inside they are like new.
Remarkably my recycling bin is the original which used to have a divider in it. The green bin is newer because the original split so the council replaced it. The red bin is much newer, I swapped the 120litre for an 80 litre - saved $100 on my rates
I am surprised the rates don’t cover the cost of replacement bins but perhaps yours are better value than the outrageous $1500 (£750) a year I pay Wollongong Council. No doubt it will go up again because the I just received my latest land valuation from the NSW Valuer General who reckons it is worth nearly $600000. I don’t care what it is worth but half the rates are based on that. Bas tard!
Not everyone bags up their rubbish in the general waste bin Bruce, and you are not allowed to bag anything up in the green garden rubbish bin, or the blue recycling bin.
That council tax is a bit steep Sheila, ours is £1700 this year, but the water bill is £854. The water rate used to be included in the general rate bill and was nowhere near a thousand in them days.
What! I thought economies of scale and our higher wages would make yours cheaper not five time higher.
The council supplies compostable bags for FOGO waste which helps keep the green bin clean, no soft plastics in the recycle bin, they go to landfill (a sore point with me)
It’s so topical and complex these days Bruce. In my younger day everything that burned went on the fire back. We each had a small (probably around 50 litres) galvanised dustbin that was tipped onto the back of a wagon once a week. Even council tips were cleaner in those days, hardly any packaging on food, nobody could afford fancy white goods or stuff that came in boxes and kitchens and bathrooms only consisted of the basics and hardly ever got re-designed or decorated. Fresh veg was either grown in the garden or delivered on the cart, and promptly put away in the pantry (only posh people had fridges) All bottles were either returned to the milkman or beer and pop bottles were re-cycled and re-filled.
Folks don’t have a clue how to save the planet these days. It’s all virtue signalling and lip service.
At least the weekend beckons.
