We used to put food waste (meat bones fish bones etc) in the garden waste bin. Then they gave us caddies to separate it. That was best, but a couple of months ago we had notice that they were having to revise their strategy and looking for new contractors and to temporarily put food waste in the landfill rubbish. So we have gone backwards, any raw veg waste trimmings peelings etc go back to the Allotment compost bin in another caddy which I kept from the last time they changed the system.
Fortunately in Devon and Cornwall, we are rarely short of water, it doesn’t stop raining for long, when they built a nearby reservoir they said it would take three years to fill, it was full in the first winter. I save water to save on my water bill. Never a shortage. No water pressure here so can’t use a hose anyway, all our plant watering is from save rain water in butts.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Not a happy bunny today. Had the lurgy over Christmas and the new year and just when I thought it was on the run I woke up this morning stoating off the walls and full of the cold again. Feeling dreadful and just want to go to bed. But things to do unfortunately.
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
The best laid plans of mice and men indeed. I tolerate the mice in my garage even though they can be a bit destructive in the winter. Sadly though they seem to be a self destructive breed. I followed a trail of chewed up sponge and paper to a plastic tub in a bag. A mouse had chewed through the bag, gnawed a hole in the tub and made a nice cosy nest in there. A while ago I got the tub and a bunch of other things from my gran's old house and put them into a bag to take to the tip as hazardous waste. I must have forgotten about it. The tub contains rat poison. I don't think the mouse will be waking up again.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Sounds like murder to me a trail of soft warm sponge, sheets of cosy paper and a conveniently placed tub of hazardous wast.
My first question is " was the wast in a suitable locked container?" it would appear not and "was it labelled correctly as hazardous wast?"
And do people really leave hazardous materials just laying around for vulnerable, poor cold and homeless little mice to crawl into only to meet a horrible death?
That's the case for the prosecution your Honour.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog
You know how when you read the word 'shopfitters ' quickly, it often looks like shoplifters (incidentally,predictive text agrees with me). Well the same kind of thing keeps happening to me when I skim past a headline about Trump. I keep reading it as turnip. I wonder why this might be.
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I save water to save on my water bill. Never a shortage. No water pressure here so can’t use a hose anyway, all our plant watering is from save rain water in butts.
Is this part of the disease or part of the treatment?
My first question is " was the wast in a suitable locked container?" it would appear not and "was it labelled correctly as hazardous wast?"
And do people really leave hazardous materials just laying around for vulnerable, poor cold and homeless little mice to crawl into only to meet a horrible death?
That's the case for the prosecution your Honour.
"You don't stop gardening because you get old, you get old because you stop gardening." - The Hampshire Hog