Corona Virus Concerns

Ours was like that 2 years ago, then they introduced a license for garden waste at £25, this year its now £35.

Next year £45

Not forgetting the ERYCC also offer the collected compost back to residents annually R&R👍🏻

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. 🤷‍♀️

Has anyone given up newspapers since the lockdown started and are you likely to go back to them. Have not read one for a month and on looking at their doom and gloom headlines on the internet will not be going back.

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.

It is a good way of getting residents focus👍🏻

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

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.