Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

That's because you were supposed to be hop picking the last couple of weeks.

 

The percentage increase is payed on your current in hand pension cash NOT your pension accumulation whilst you are employed
Therefor it's you current weekly cash amount NOT your current total pension accumulated so far

 

And the terrorist nastiness has now hit Canada.

Two dead as FBI probing vehicle explosion at Rainbow Bridge | Toronto Sun

 

It was on our early evening news, but not much info.

 

Turns out I posted fake news. There was a medical issue that caused crash at the rainbow Bridge.

Thank goodness

 

They probably want to stop doing the collections, soon they will say the uptake is so low they will not be doing it anymore.

 

As very rural we have a neighbour that has a brown bin for garden waste, they are the only one's and the lorry has to come at leest 5 miles just to collect the waste and sometimes there is no waste to collect so lorry has a wasted trip

 

Around 10 years ago our council decided to stop garden bin collections and offered a sort of subscription service for those who wanted a collection, done in bags.

Just before they collected the bins away someone unexpectedly came to their senses and stopped the whole scheme.

The reason was that actually the council benefits from residents gardening, it's healthy (especially good activity for older people), makes places look well tended and offers green havens for wildlife.

And in fact, after that the council has indeed invested in quite clever green schemes, including roadside meadows, public lawns with a meadow area in the middle ( seeded with interesting flowers and properly maintained), relocating a new housing estate plan to preserve a green corridor etc.

They subsidise solar panels and insulations, new building sites have partially open drainage systems landscaped as natural streams and ponds, dug out earth is used for artificial hills to gather excess rain and act as noise barriers (and roly poly spots).

I'm rather impressed to be honest

 

I have a space for compost heap, I also have a chipper. but my bin gets all the stuff I'd rather not hang on to.

 

My neighbours put theirs out for two years without paying, the blokes on the truck don't bother checking who has paid, as a rule.