Corona Virus Concerns
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We have a caddy bin for food waste lined with a suitable biodegradable bag which we would normally deposit in our green waste wheelie bin. However since they stopped collecting green waste we have been told to put it in the black sack (general waste).
David
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I solved all the food waste problems years ago when i installed a waste disposal unit. There's not much that you cant but through it although celery is one thing, it goes very stringy and can cause a blockage. It can tackle most bones but i wouldn't try a leg of lamb bone.
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For some years, now, the East Riding of Yorkshire Council has been top of the national list for re-cycling and they're still going strong on the bin collections. Like David, we have the caddy for food waste which goes in the brown bin together with garden waste. General (landfill) in the green bin and a blue bin for stuff to be re-cycled. We have two of those because there always seems to be an excess of bottles! All for 'free'. Plus - we have the local allotment society come round every week to collect excess garden waste which they then compost and give away the excess to local residents. Sadly, this service has stopped temporarily because of the virus restrictions.
I also have a garage which is increasingly becoming cluttered with boxes etc, which I can't take to the tip at the moment.
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Not forgetting the ERYCC also offer the collected compost back to residents annually R&R👍🏻
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We don’t have food waste, other than peelings or the odd soft piece of uncooked veg. Small caddy in kitchen for those, and they go into our compost bin. Seldom get much food left over, it goes down the dog if we do. I even cook up things like cauliflower leaves and broccoli stems for him, as it helps make his food interesting, but doesn’t put weight onto him. Helps as he can’t walk far.
We have had our garden bin collection (paid for) suspended for the moment. Email explained that they were experiencing a good few staff having to self isolate with symptoms, so it was impacting the service, and the priority would be to maintain the three other bin collections, paper, plastic/glass/tins, and general waste. I have no objection to this. We have little paper waste, the odd flyer, the odd trade mag. We use bits of paper and cardboard to kindle stove, so it seldom builds up. Can easily do a month on one collection of paper.
I saw a report the other day that said some local councils may have to restrict certain non statutory services, such as leisure services etc.... They aren’t getting the income in from car parking charges and fines. 🤷♀️
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If you want a little light relief, and can cope with a lampooning of the PPE supply problems, Mark Steel's 'Blue Peter Coronavirus PPE production' video is very good. Don't forget to ask your Dadbefore using his old pants ...
Just a pity that there's no 'Get down, Shep' in the John Noakes tribute performance!
https://twitter.com/mrmarksteel/status/1249326236914024449
Steve
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We stopped newspapers some three years ago Fish. Reduced it down to weekend Yorkshire Post, which gave us all paper we needed for starting stove for a week, but then we stopped that as it wasn’t getting fully read through. OH subscribes (free) to Guardian, but mainly for crosswords and sport. We browse lots of different places for news nowadays, or simply don’t bother if it’s fluff like the Harry and Meghan “crisis” or the size of KK’s backside, or which non entity got thrown out of a jungle somewhere.
We use local websites for local news, others for international news.
So, no newspapers for us.
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We have similar, got our first one back in 1981 when we built a new kitchen at our previous house and have had several since then. We have 2 here at present as we have a "granny flat" with kitchen and I think we have had to buy 3 new ones since moving here in 1988.
It is the gadget we miss most when away in the caravan!
We gave one of our old ones, the switching on/off mechanism fails first, to our daughter as she could have a wall switch fitted. Ours are ISE batch feed type with magnetic switch in the neck, which is expensive to replace, so after the thing is 10 years old, replacing it seems the better idea.
She left it in the old house when she moved and her "house warming" present from us, at her request, was a new one.
They can deal with most things as you say, we find avocado stones do defeat it, and melon skins have to be cut up into strips.
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We have not bought a newspaper in over 30 years, though MIL did buy one occasionally. I was quite shocked a while back to see how much papers cost these days! As OH said just recently, I am living in the past when it comes to prices!
Unless we are going away on holiday, when we do not want rubbish lying in the bins for several weeks, we only put out our bins when they are full, speeds up the bin men's job. So usually they would be at the most once very 4 weeks , once every 8 weeks for garden stuff.
The council compost the garden stuff, but I believe they either use it themselves or residents can buy some. It all goes to one depot, which is not near us, so more cost effective for us to buy from the local garden centre should we need any.
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I tend to have the Guardian once a week which comes free with my Waitrose shopping! When we are away in the motorhome (remember that!!!) I will ocassionally treat myself to a paid copy. Years ago we always had a daily newspaper delivered but that was before the advent of rolling 24 hour news. Mind you we did have Ceefax in those days.
David
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We haven't had a paper version for years, apart from the odd one from Waitrose. However, I do subscribe to the digital version of the Telegraph, which I find very good. There are several crosswords and other puzzles that can be done on the pad, if one wishes.
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My caravan thinks its been forgotten I cant even check if its okay in storage. But still better safe than sorry .My wife & I only go out for a daily walk with the dogs .We are lucky as we live in a fenland village so people not realy a problem .Stay safe all of you this will come to and end .
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Maybe I'm old fashioned but don't really care. I still buy the i newspaper every day but don't bother with any Sunday paper.
I can't stand the news on the internet. The BBC drives me mad. Talk about making a Drama out of a Crisis. Sky is just too biased for me and ITV is a waste of time. Channel 4 news isn't too bad but it's not just the news that I miss from not having a paper. It's all of the other articles and I have found the i and, prior to it's current form, The Independent, to be a fair teller of truths and about as unbiased as it can be. It allows views from across all political spectrums and the clincher for me is that it has an excellent Cryptic Crossword which I find helps stimulate my mind during the coffee breaks during the day and whilst listening to music at night. I need some mental stimuli during the day.
I've tried its digital version but I can't get used to it and find reading it on a laptop too small for my liking.
We don't have it delivered as normally we're away too often but pick it up on our daily walk as we go past the shop. Pay by card and pick up anything else we might need (providing it's not heavy or pick it up on the way back).
I would miss it, and do when abroad, when I normally take out a short term digital subscription to keep me going.
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It is a good way of getting residents focus👍🏻
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If only the P T B would standardize their bins colour codes and contents !!
In Cheshire East we have grey bins for recyclables, Black bins for non-recyclables and green or brown or even black with brown lids for garden waste.
We have recently been given a green 'caddy' for waste foods. this came with a small supply of organic bags { which we have to replace at our own expense ( !! ) } These food bags are allowed to be placed in the garden waste bins -- if you have no bags then they can be ignored and the food waste placed unwrapped in that very green garden waste bin.
Bins are collected Black this week then Grey and Green next week etc etc and so on and so forth. No extra charges now for these three colours but that was not always the case.
{ Very } Confused of Crewe
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The dog and the garden and cycling mainly😂 The rather nice weather is a bonus. We are never bored, always got some project large or small on the go. OH is outside building a hedgehog house at the moment, the pooch is sleeping off his walk, I am flitting between a rather addictive jigsaw, preparing a tagine meal for this evening, and keeping in touch with a few folks, having got back in from today’s cycle ride! I give it an hour and the dog will be up, OH will disappear into attic to do his twenty odd miles, I might just have found an elusive jigsaw piece and the meal will be slow cooking merrily. I shall go and pull up a few weeds, water the garden, do a “this is the dog in the garden” video for Mum, update my Tesco order, tie up a rose, search for our elusive hedgehog visitor, and by then the dog will need yet another walk! Then it’s dinner, indoor hobbies (wool.....or jewellery🤔) bed, and repeat! There aren’t enough hours in the day for us. Housework and cleaning are reserved for wet or cold days.
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I'm really missing my daily paper. I read the Times Monday to Friday don't bother at the weekend, too many supplements. However I've been buying books for the kindle and find some of them are only a few pence more expensive than the paper. The trouble is I'm getting through them at an alarming rate even with walking and gardening.
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Our answer to both questions is walking Flyte, so we get out in the fresh air everyday, and will continue to do so even in the rain. He's loving it at the moment as he's getting more runs off the lead than when we're away in the van.
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Gardening, decorating, knitting, cycle rides, walks and other DIY projects.
Jigsaws, books and housework for rainy days, not that we've had many so far this month, typical as no one can go anywhere.
I did have a bit of a down day last Wednesday when I realise we should have been on the ferry going to Spain for 9 weeks
Big bonus is that this year I just might get those gardening jobs done that I've talked about for years
OH still has a list of jobs to do so no boredom in this house. Today I made 8 washable material face masks and 9 face shields, face masks for our family and face shields for the local careers.
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Just read this on my fb page by someone on a group I belong to. Most heartening, I believe it's the same folk that I was given contact details for.
I contacted Essex Welfare for help with shopping during these difficult times. I didn't even give them details of what I required until around lunch-time and I received delivery before 6 pm. Most impressed and they deserve my thanks.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I hope if others need to use this one or their local one they get a similar response.
Well done those volunteers 👏👏👏
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