Corona Virus Concerns
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OH has just drawn my attention to a Facebook item declaring that our local council will not be opening their tips despite central government urging them to do so.
Instead they are more than willing to collect them at the bargain price of £5.30 per bag.😱
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When out with Rosa just now ,while she and some of her "mates" were having a run around ,I mentioned about Iceland and our "very late evening delivery" , and it seems that supermarkets are not releasing "slots" until an order is received and paid for ,which then gives a slot ,as that was what seems to have happened with us , as there were no slots shown for at least the next week
Ps its a min £35 for free del from Iceland
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.Muppets all of em😤
Hey Rocky, please be a bit more judicious when labelling Politicians as Muppets. I always enjoyed the Muppets and am sure they would object to being labelled with the MPs in such a fashion.😱
Otherwise carry on the good work.👍
(My favourites were Waldorf and Statler).
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And when they closed them didn't every sensible person say that all that was going to happen would be an increase in Fly Tipping?
It was so obvious and counter productive to close the sites.
I do understand that they were short staffed but they could have reduced the number and maybe restrict visits to certain days depending on areas where people lived within the towns they serviced.
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It seems B2 is in a similar situation.
When I first heard the promises coming from Govt I thought they’d got everything sewn up and the folk who needed help would get it with the army of willing volunteers being organised to help as required. How naive of me. I should have known better.☹️
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PS this is the same council that banned anybody from attending cremations at their two crematoriums in the face of government guidelines allowing up to 10 mourners.
Thankfully they backtracked on that this week so there's still a chance they'll changed their minds, especially when they realise that Yorkshire folk are not daft enough to pay their ludicrous charges.
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My apologies to the Muppets👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻. I realised my 1st option of multiple swear words would’ve upset far more folk👍🏻
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Mmmm, along the lines of all the companies offering to re engineer their production lines to make PPE that the Govt totally ignored, they preferred to say they are delivering PPE when clearly they were not. By the way this is not politically biased I dislike & mistrust every party of every persuasion👍🏻.
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There is an article on the front page of today's Telegraph showing how that army of volunteers and all the associated good will has been wasted. 750000 volunteers? About 20000 tasks undertaken so far,
Mrs M volunteered, heard nothing for a week and then decided the process was so complicated that she phoned our local LINK scheme instead. Just emailed a copy of her driving licence, was accepted there and then and has been doing prescription pick ups daily since then.
When governments get involved there are plenty of sound bites but relatively little or very slow action to match.
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Is it just me but isn't someone who hires an unlicensed collector without any checks just as guilty as the people that actually dump the rubbish?
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Gotta be Gonzo and good ol' Fozzie Bear
JK
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This week was our recycling bins collection week, so OH checked the council website in case they had restarted collections, but it seems they have not. None of our tips are open either. While we have some outside space we could store bagged up stuff, what are those living in flats supposed to do? So much for encouraging recycling!
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That's how I started with Iceland! On checking now my basket was empty, only been in there 3 weeks! No patience some folk. Anyway I chucked some bits in got to £38.50 book a slot, none available. Whoops just re read yours didn't pay! Better go back and check what's in the the basket.
Actually some instructions would be good. Tesco you cant shop until you've got a slot, then theres a time limit.
Might be back shortly 😀
Edit cant pay until you get a slot, redirects to delivery page when you click pay. Good try though. At least I've got a basket full to try at various times 🤞
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It would seem that we have been very fortunate all bins collected ( 4 different bins over 3 week cycle) on allocated day and now recycling centres open as well much to the delight of one of my neighbours whose already starting to load the sorted junk from his garage into the car to take early tomorrow morning. It would be churlish of me not to thank Wigan council.
On the question of people not checking that waste collectors removing rubbish for them are properly licensed if you've ever watched the daytime tv programmes featuring investigations into fly tipping you will have seen many don't.
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Most folk wouldn't even think! They'd be happy with a bargain charge. Even that wouldn't cause a stop and think moment. Out of mind out of sight. How was I supposed to know?? You can hear them already 😥
We have plenty of room to store, but luckily we dont need to at the mo as council continuing as normal, but I feel for folks in flats and where they have no room. Rotting rubbish is not a perfume I would select from the range.
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Our garden waste collection has been discontinued for the time being and our recycling bin was suspended for two weeks but is now reinstated. With having quite a big garden there is some garden waste that we can't compost and bonfires are now banned, (not that we ever had one) so we relied on the fortnightly collection or took large amounts to the tip - which is now closed. It's now a case of bag it up and hope that one day we can get rid of it.
The council here, quite reasonably, have recently asked people living in a close or cul-de-sac to put all their bins in a central place making it easier and quicker for the bin-men to collect especially as many of them are not the usual crew. This we have done very successfully for the last two weeks except for today, and words fail me. There is a fairly elderly widowed lady who lives in our cul-de-sac so when one of her neighbours saw her bin on the pavement outside her house last night they took it, along with their own, to the 'central point'. This morning, before the bins had been emptied, I saw this lady in question retrieve her bin and wheel it 100 yards back to her house and leave it on the pavement ready for collection. The bin men then had to go back down the road to collect this solitary bin . Talk about being anti-social and inconsiderate. It's no wonder her daughters have stopped coming to see her. Had I been a bin man I would have left it, but then again I wouldn't have wanted to be on the wrong end of her vicious tongue.
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Some of the joined up thinking is in the farcical section to be honest. I was inundated with texts last week, telling me to go total self isolate, don’t go out, getting everything delivered, no family, friends etc.... On “extremely vulnerable” apparently. This of course is a mere 3.5 weeks into the original lockdown. Only I am not extremely vulnerable. It was for someone else, who, reading through the specific conditions, doesn’t tick any of those boxes either! Now Mum........response from Docs was in the “oh, er, can we ring you back” category. So they did. On the wrong phone number, so that call went to another family member😡 Yesterday I got an urgent text from NHS Shielding Service (🤷♀️) telling me to await a phone call shortly. 24 hours later, still no phone call. Luckily, we are well organised, taking precautions as we should, but imagine this happening to a vulnerable person on their own, with no family help. Beggars belief really.
Now isn’t the time to be doing it, but there needs to be some serious cross party debate and discussion, because without doubt, this country’s response and preparation on a number of fronts has been seriously lacking. Time for a very big rethink of health and social care, as big as the original NHS set up if you ask me.
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France has pledged to reopen a PPE Factory that was closed a couple of years ago in favour of moving to a Chinese Supplier. Apparently, the French factory was capable of turning out the required quality and quantity and Unions warned of the consequences of closing down a domestic production facility. 'Horse bolted' but there is at least still a factory wall from which to hang the gate.
Just hope that UK builds domestic production as part of the revival of the UK economy, but its track record is not great. UK Government chose not to stockpile PPE Visors in 2016 because it would have cost slightly more to provide storage covers for the Screens.
Steve
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First policy this nation needs to sort out is putting anything and everything out to the cheapest tender, or buyer. We own nothing, we make very little that isn’t controlled overseas. It’s a disgrace.
🤔 Actually, we make toilet rolls. In Leicester. Unlike the crazy Aussies who get all theirs from China. But of course social media is global, so panic buying half a world away is replicated by the stupid here. Duh... 🔨
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We are lucky so far our bin collections have remained the same, but for how long it can continue I don't know.
With regard to online shopping deliveries our neighbours opposite had a large Sainsbury's delivery this morning, as they are a young couple I was a bit disappointed that they had possibly taken a delivery slot away from someone who is vulnerable and who perhaps hasn't been able to get a delivery.
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In our area all the bins are being collected, the recycle centre is closed though so our garden waste is mounting up.
The garden bin collection you have to pay for at £35 a bin. As 1 bin isn't enough for us we decided not to bother.
Bakers2, saw this on my FB page not sure it its of any help.
have just ordered my mum a free food parcel from the government, she has COPD .... Any high risk people are entitled to one... Easy application. Follow link. Everyone should know about this.
If you are applying for a couple then 2 separate applications have to be done or you will just receive a box for 1 person.
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Thanks Tammygirl I have completed that several weeks back. Didn't find anywhere to get a box. If they're going we can have one or two and if there's things we don't like they can be redistributed to food charity. Our community has a bench for locals and a neighbour would drop it for me. Sadly I don't have enough at present to give as I don't know what's coming on my online shop 😂😂
I wonder if it's different in Scotland?? First question asks do you live in England? Never mind I'll go through the form again, don't have to submit it, or maybe better to be on the list twice? Who knows? We are ok for stuff at the moment thankfully.
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I've gone through the form again but this time clicking I live in Scotland, different start and a link to a free box per person per week free delivery free food. Doesn't seem to apply in England - wont persue any more cos we can afford the food, it's getting it that's the issue 😂😂😂
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So much for a United Kingdom eh B2?
The first minister in Wales has stated that the lockdown could, if he deemed it necessary, extend beyond England's. Great. As I'm only 15 minutes from the border I might have to make a dash for it when the time comes.
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