Yawn, Yawn, Wakey Wakey!! 2016

Aloha everyone,

It's another sunny morning but we only got a little of the rain promised so the sprinkler will have to work overtime today.

He had a wonderful time and went as the tooth fairy


Sorry, @Zigs you didn't sign the 'no publicity' box.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Aloha everyone,

There wasn't enough rain yesterday but it was better than the big nothing we've had for a lot of the summer. It rained again at 5.30 and now we're in for a sunny and comfortable day with a heatwave from Tuesday.

After another day of clearing and cutting back the bonfire heap has climbed to head height again. Wheelie bins are full and bags of weeds waiting for empty bins, but also for neighbour to put his half empty bin out so we can fill it.

Sold a load more beans yesterday, made a very nice rhubarb sponge and had a chat with Sarafi.

Keep well and have a great day

Aloha!

 

Good Sunday morning @Michael Hewett ,@shiney and all my other friends enjoy your day and stay safe

What a scintillating ,exciting and interesting topic to discuss first thing on a Sunday morning,thanks for that

 

@Michael Hewett Our council are very good with collections but they found it a necessity. We get our green waste collected every week (kitchen waste is included in the green bin) and rubbish and recycling are alternate weeks.

They dropped the green waste collection to once a fortnight some years ago but brought it back to weekly after only two months of green waste fly tipping on the roadsides. Apparently this waste a deliberately arranged fly tipping publicised through social media. The council were warned it would happen by anonymous calls to the local press.

About a year later they tried charging for green waste bags but came across the same threat. They did an online survey and decided to drop the idea of charging.

Every household is allowed one wheelie bin per week (we have special dispensation for two bins a week) and the local villages have a bin lorry that comes round every Sunday from April to November. It stops for 45 minutes, in a set position, in each village and people can bring their green waste to it.

All these measures have enabled the council to exceed their recycling targets and their CO2 savings. It has also dropped the fly tipping to almost zero (they still get some non-green waste fly tipping but people are fairly good at spotting and reporting the tippers).

Our council tax is quite high, which brings out a militant attitude in the residents if the council doesn't do a good job. If they do a good job then we're happy to pay the price.

There are two tips within reach of us. One is in a town seven miles away and the other in a town fifteen miles away. They are very busy with queues sometimes of 50+ cars. The congestion caused if that number increases would create other problems for the council. So it's an overall gain for the council.

 

@Zigs

I'm pleased you didn't make that a capital H in 'happy' as it's sometimes hard to find happy senior citizens

"As we grow old ... the beauty steals inwards"

I see no good reason to act my age!

 

Try being an Owl for a day,there's a shortage of mice,no night sleep at all ,we are so popular lately that photographers pop up everywhere,no privacy at all,and an increase of birds of prey,trying to pinch your tail feathers in flight