What are you all up to
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To deter poachers perhaps, WN ??
Like the Sheep farmers in Cumbria etc have taken to trialling bright very long lasting paint with tiny microscopic numbers relevant to the farm in the paint. Harder for the light fingered ones to steal & sell on !!
The Buyers and / or police need only a small tubular microscope to be able to read them.
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One day, long after I'm gone probably, the Councils & waste disposal companies will get their blooming act together !!
It appears that the waste disposal companies needs are different w r t the types of plastic, especially the thin filmy stuff, that they can use.
Our, Cheshire East, council, allows food waste to be disposed of ONLY in Black Bins along with non-recycleable plastics etc, Green bins for garden waste only, but not thick wood or soil !. Heavy prunings etc you take to the tip yourself { but not in a trailer with a Company logo -- THAT COSTS ! }
Collection hereabouts on Thursday so Wednesday lots of folk are seen standing by the various bins scratching heads and looking more than a little confused but they are just the ones who care
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If our lot want to start charging, they can have them all back! (we have 3 but rarely use them). Already paying almost £3750 including water and sewage, so they are getting plenty for only 2 OAPs!
We have no grass, so only use the bin if we are doing pruning, and prunings we can shred and use as mulch if necessary. Garden could probably do with some mulch this year.
We can also compost them, like we used to.
We have a separate food waste bin, but never have any food waste as we have an Insinkerator.
Takes us about 6 weeks to fully fill our regular bin, which is fairly large, about 4 weeks for the half size recycling bins. Then we are away for about 3 months when they have nothing to collect from our house.
No way will we be paying more!
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Miserable day rain on and off all day,
not been up to much, wet walk with the dog and then work. So far our council don't charge for refuse bins or collections, but they do now charge for taking non household waste at the local tip.
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Congratulations for navigating the M66 / M60 Wherenext , we used them when at Burrs to get to our sons house in Sale, Trevor commented it was almost like the M25
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Pleased to hear you got through the weather and reached home ok Francis. Sounds like a nice break in the Lakes.
I have just said goodbye to our pancake eaters, so much for a quiet day in the kitchen. I did have a good helper with my 8 year old grandson, but I think his motives for staying in the kitchen were slightly skewed.
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Tammy, our council charge if you want a second bin and as we need one we have to pay £25 p.a. They then send a bar code and address form that we attach to the bin, these are also sent out to those with just one bin, so that the emptiers can see that the second bin has been paid for. Should be receiving our new forms any time soon.
Why do they want to light up the Tay? - good question, they seem to think it will encourage tourists
Thanks for explanation of how the bins work OH thinks its something similar they are trying to bring in here.
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Actually, Helen, the traffic going around clockwise, past Oldham and Hyde etc was so light especially when compared with going anti clockwise, even though it was about 5 miles further. So next time we have a visit we'll probably take the longer route.
Sad though seeing the Snooker club where I spent many a Friday night after work has finally closed down.
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Kj, we have had similar thoughts as you about returning the bins, but they say you have to keep 1 garden bin per house hold for waste food, if food is found in any other bin they will not empty it. The recycle bin is emptied once a fortnight as is the non recycle bin and garden bin.
Crazy thing is you can still take your garden waste to the skip at no charge as long as its in a private vehicle, if you intend to use a van or trailer you have to obtain a permit from the council to say its not a business, fair enough.
We can easily fill 2 bins (as we did the other day) in just a tidy up of the garden, we do have a shredder so could make mulch or compost just stopped doing that since we've been away for half the year.
Last year we paid a chap to do the hedges (2 x 10ft leylandii) due to OH having a bad shoulder. It was great all done and dusted while we were away in France, came back to lovely neat hedges, takes OH days to do them all and at least 2 trips to the skip with a trailer. We will be using him again this year.
Interesting to hear what other councils are doing to raise money.
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At least they cannot say that here, as we have separate little food waste recycling bins.
Like you we have fortnightly collections, one week the recycling, the next week the general waste and the garden bin.
We too have a fellow we pay to do tree and shrub pruning and also to keep the weeds at bay while we are away. He has an industrial shredder and then fills our bins, but we could just as easily compost the shreddings or use them for mulch, we have plenty of bare ground round the plants to cover.
We also have our own little shredder.
Any thick branches I keep and leave to dry, then use them to make things. Our gardener knows I make things so he often brings me chunks of timber from interesting trees he has cut down.
We also use him for the grounds at the Guide Hall here, so over the years we have struck up a good friendship.
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Re waste collections. The other day the idea was being put forward that we should pay a deposit on plastic bottles which we get back when we return them to the supermarket. Those that have travelled in France and Germany will be familiar with this system. I think I would prefer them to put a 5p tax on every container and that money go towards supporting local refuse collections. I might stop all the hair brained ideas some councils have about stopping these essential services?
David
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Thanks, ttda!
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That would not do much to stop antisocial people just throwing them away, but the thought of getting your money back might.
We have had that sort of system in Norway for many years, but the deposits are much larger now 15p on a small bottle or tin, 25p on a large bottle, it soon mounts up.
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That's another good reason for staying in our caravan!
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We have our electric oven and two hobs so it doubles up as an extra kitchen. There's plenty of room for a coffee table and chairs plus relaxers. We can put the picnic table in there and have a dining area, plus two extra bedrooms in the side annexes. So you can do much more in an awning than you could do in a conservatory!
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At least those of us with a conservatory don't have to take it down every 21 days, re erect for 2 days, take it down to re erect again for 21 days. We don't have to worry when it's windy, and it is nice and cosy even when it's cold and icy outside. If it's a large one we can have a dining table, plus a two seater and two chair cane furniture in it. So I think you are very much mistaken in your comment.
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It gets nice and warm in the awning, cariadon when the sun comes through the front window even in the winter. If there's no sun, we use an awning heater when it's cold.
Yes I agree it's extra work dismantling and re-erecting it every 21 days but we think it's worth it because of the huge cost saving.
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I can here engines running outside as folk defrost there cars. Very glad there is normally no need to do that anymore. Sunny but a fair bit of cloud and still minus 1. I believe it is supposed to get very wet and windy later. A Valentine's Day washout.☹️
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It's fine while your wife has her health and strength to do it, but what if she can no longer do it, we women are not as strong as you men and there are things we shouldn't do as our bodies are not designed for it, and it's not a sexist remarks, as I made the mistake when younger that I could lift and carry things and am paying for it now. Will you be able to do it on your own, or if your health went, long term not temporary what would you do then.
There are a lot of good v bad points for an awning, but we caravanners that holiday in our vans have an option to use one or not,
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We were out walking last week and there was plastic bottles chucked away carelessly and blowing around in the wind. If plastic bottles are discontinued in favour of glass, will the inconsiderate still throw the glass bottle away, if so will the countryside be littered with broken glass.
Remember as a child we used to be able to return bottles for a refund, we used to go looking for bottles to get some pocket money.
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We'll just have to hope for the best regarding health. Having said that, we've seen people with disabilities getting help from others in putting up their awning. So that's always a possibility. When I had a fractured wrist last year, others on the site offered to help with the awning.
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Bright with sunny periods here in Kent ,but high winds and South Westerly gales up to 7 to 8 specially in the North .Seas rough to moderate (channel rough) some heavy rain showers .
Off to collect some bags of 'tarmac with the trailer ' to repair the boatyard road/track ,today ,the weather lately has made a right mess of the road/potholes etc etc .
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