LATEST MOAN FROM YOU AND ME 2020

My new rules with rubbish:

If it composts, compost it.

Will it recycle? If yes put it in the recycling bin, if no will it break/dismantle to recycle?

If yes, break it and recycle it, if no then will it go into the black bin bags?

If yes it goes in there (breaking apart as needed), if not then the final stage is will it burn?

If yes, burn it, if no then inevitably it is a run to the dump when I can.

 

By the time they caught me doing it, it would be too late......

 

I was going to say, bit early for roasted chestnuts @pete

 

I agree with all the above except we can burn stuff and the local dump (not very local) is closed.

If you're coming in this direction then it can go on my bonfire heap. I have a monthly bonfire but only after it has rained.

I've had June's bonfire but July is not far away

 

That's about what my regular monthly little fire looks like but I sometimes go a couple of months without one. I don't set fire to it if the weather has been dry and hot so that one was nearly two months whilst I waited for rain. I also wait until the wind is blowing across the field so when the harvest is nearly ready I also don't have a fire. I don't think the farmer would be happy with a burnt crop.

I always phone my neighbour when I'm having one and he chucks his rubbish over the fence for me to burn.

 

That's OK, my neighbours love me . They don't have to go to the tip (even when it's open) and they can have as much potash as they want.

The fire is never lit when the wind is blowing their way. Fairly recently one of the neighbours had his conifers reduced in height. The tree surgeon was going to charge him £100 to take it away (and burn it ) so we burnt it on my bonfire heap. fifteen minutes for the two of us to load it, fifteen minutes of fierce fire with hoses at the ready, ten minutes raking and 24 hrs to burn to ash - plus half an hour of tea and cake in his garden.