Re: Diary summary week ending 9th February 2025

[Roobarb]

Garden waste currently £40, no doubt that will increase before too long. Yours is very expensive LM. Our collection starts in April, I'm pretty sure that when it was free it started in March.  Finishes November.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Candleflame, hope your OH is soon back safely with you. My OH is asthmatic, can be very worrying.
TY

[Viktoria]

Firstly,hopes for improvement in health of RootsChatters and not forgetting
“ other halves” .

I was told off last dustbin day ,because I had put a crisp packet  in with tins ,bottles and plastic——— I really thought they were recyclable .
So bin not emptied ——-.
Handrail for banister fitted today , BUT ,when I rode up the stairs my knee jammed against the lowest edge ,so a phone call and the fitter came back.
He really ought to have asked me to do a trial run ,however he came straight back, I sat down and he immediately said”you need to sit right back” that was better  but at the top it was still very tight so I sat b ack in the seat ‘ ——that gave me a spare inch and it cleared - same at the top , I can swivel it round to step off on the little landing but the arm does not quite clear, so as the fitter is bound by height regulations etc my son said he knew there were other types of bracket that would give better clearance , by raising the bannister by an inch or so ,the mount is the same and doesn’t need to be changed .
I do however have to seal all the knots in the mount and rail,  best done  last thing at night or my son might stick to the rail ——
Shed tomorrow and wider gate too.
Ooooooh. The excitement ——

A bright cold day today but really sunny.
Sorted lots of papers out today. Not really filed any since just before Christmas , I like them in order , and the things Belgium ask for when my Belgian pension is reviewed each year!

Steak for son’s  tea,not sure what I will have,not really hungry these days,but soup in freezer- individual servings so a  microwave  thaw and crusty bread or a cheese roll.
Then Yoghurt .

Hope all are alright given there are some challenging conditions out there,bravely borne , You all constantly amaze me with your fortitude.

So an early night ready for the thrills  or frustrations tomorrow may bring !

Cheerio.
Viktoria.

[Roobarb]

Viktoria, I don't think you're the only one to get confused about whether some items are recyclable, they don't make it easy. Some people around here haven't had their recycling bins emptied because they've put plastic bags in there. It's a very common error, in fact a friend of mine was convinced that they could be recycled, she Googled it when we were having the conversation. Google told her that plastic bags are recyclable, I said Not around here they're not! I found it on the council website, she had thought she was doing a good job of recycling until then.

TY,  I see you've found the weekly thread, I put a link on the other one for you before realising you'd posted here. 

[louisa maud]

Does the dustman really rumble around your dustbin to check,  that really surprises me, the cheek of it, they must waste more time checking than collecting in my opinion, 1 mistake?,,  I do double check on labels if I can, if I can read them,  my everyday bin  usually contains more plastic packaging  than anything else.

Viktoria,  pleased your plans are all coming  together for you, you will feel the bees knees as they say.

LM

[Viktoria]

They do open lids,and so may well see the latest rubbish at the top,the fact that they can not turn our bins round so the handles face out as we are instructed to do ,it being easier for them , beggars belief !
 I have assisted collection and had a bay into my garden  from  the side lane
made ,so they don’t have to come into my garden ,good when I had the dog ahd so much easier for the team - but no, they turn them round so I have to go into the lane to put rubbish in,or turn them round myself .
Honestly! I make a point of thanking them if I am in as I do appreciate that help.
I know my son is here but he too is paying Council tax  and is already 66,he might not be here every Friday ,Head Office is way down South so he is frequently away  on dustbin days ,calling at his sister’s whilst down there.
It is all or nothing ,so I am keeping all,!

Hope people are O.K.
Trump has started trumpeting already ————-
Cheerio.Viktoria.

[Wellington66]

Morning,
Just reading the dilemma over crisp packets.  My friend is a keen recycler and educated me some time back. Apparently crisp packets, bread bags etc. are classed as soft plastics and can be recycled but you have to keep them separate and take them to a special bin at larger supermarkets.  Some products have the instructions on the packaging, Aldi are particularly good. A bit of a faff but I'm sure the planet will appreciate our efforts.
Welly x

[rosie99]

We have a soft plastics weekly collection here,  the council have provided bags which last us 2-3 weeks and go out with the recycling.  We have a weekly recycling collection and 3 weekly rubbish collection, the rubbish bin for landfill has hardly anything in it.

Garden waste is collected 2 weekly for most of the year, just a break around Christmas and will cost around £73 from April.  I do let one of my neighbours add to it when there is space.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Our garden waste collection is quite expensive, sometimes we have to spread it over a week or two's loads at peak "Weed bashing time". Normal waste here is paper/card; and plastics, cans and bottles together. Tend to have v few crisp packs - and they often end up in general waste.
Just spent morning diving into the top drawer of one of my filing cabinets, Viktoria, trying to sort out what investments hide where.... Need to read / check date on all in onbe area first, set them out, then decide what can be thrown or shredded, and what has to go back, in order. Waste of a nice sunny day
TY