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  1. shiney

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    Did you call? :whistle:
     
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    shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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    Don't have that problem here. Each time they have broken one of our recycling containers they have replaced it the following Friday. Fridays are broken container delivery days :thumbsup: - unless they just do it for me as I'm listed as a PITA. :heehee:
     
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      That happens around here also.
      My food waste bin became brittle, as plastic does when opposed to the sun, a few years ago, I just sent an e mail to the council stating things don't last forever and I refuse to pay for a new one.
      Got an e mail back saying a new one will be delivered in a few days, which it was.:smile:

      I got the feeling they get repeat offenders who are always asking for new bins.
       
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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      When RR finds out she will scrap that one too.:yikes:
      How on earth are you going to survive.:roflol:
       
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      • ViewAhead

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        Somehow, @shiney, I get the impression you might be filed in that category with a number of companies and service providers. :biggrin:
         
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          It's one of my aims in life. :thumbsup:

          I even sent the bailiffs into the head office of a power company. :roflol:
           
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            I dunno how you fit in gardening. :biggrin:
             
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              We don't have a problem here either, but if one council spots a way to screw more money out of us others will probably follow. What I don't like though is replacement lids for recycling boxes are those stupid things like shower caps. You can't stack boxes with those tops and they tend to get torn off anyway.
               
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                Having a 21 - 22 hour day helps. :thumbsup:
                 
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                  But even you, @shiney, can't lengthen the daylight hrs available for gardening ... presumably! :biggrin: Unless Shiney Towers has sodium floodlights installed, of course.
                   
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                    Floodlights?! He has torch bearers! :roflol:
                     
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                      The dark hours allow me to do a lot of the non-gardening things that I get up to. :thumbsup:
                       
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                        All these organisations you keep in line must tremble at the onset of longer hrs of darkness! :biggrin:
                         
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