I don’t collect anything either, my kitchen bin is a 12 lt and I have 3 bags of rubbish a fortnight. My children know to buy us eats or drinks for presents, or gardening stuff, now the sheds are another story😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Oh dear me, Liri. Curmudge away. I'm quite glad you overheard that phone call though - could be useful knowledge. B3, you're right. Gaxit.
I just had to go and check our bin capacity - 20l. We fill one bag a fortnight, which fits nicely into our dustbin. Sadly, we produce approximately the same amount of plastic / glass / tin recycling, though we are working hard on that and it's reducing every time. Our neighbours (family of 3, we're 4) seem to fill a massive wheelie bin plus every two weeks, I don't know how.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Went to the hairdressers this morning. There was a woman in there who didn't stop talking the whole time l was in there (about an hour and a quarter, it takes a while to make me look stunning these days ). I thought l'd be in for some peace when she had paid, but instead of leaving, she started a conversation with the woman next to me who was also having her hair washed. At first l was having charitable thoughts, thinking this may be the only chance, she lives alone etc., but then from what she was saying, l gathered there was an OH at home. You know when you think" l hope l didn't just say that out loud" ? I was thinking "FGS will you shut up". I was so stressed that l had to go to the garden centre and buy a hellebore to calm me down
It did the trick GWRS ! She just had one of those voices that l couldn't block out, l was trying to read and just couldn't concentrate. Good job l wasn't having my blood pressure checked afterwards!
A calming hellebore sounds an excellent solution, AnniD. Almost worth getting stressed for...
We're not sure what purpose the "digging man" serves... the road is completely blocked by seven Northern Gas vans, each the width of the road. Pedestrians can squeeze through, but a woman with a push chair gave up and went back the way she'd come.
Shortly after my previous post, a gang of honchos arrived. Four of them! After running up and down stairs for a bit, they decided that this row of houses was the most difficult they'd ever had to sort out. "Your house alone would take a week," the head man said. "In fact, it's impossible to connect to a supply at the front." All the other houses will have a meter box on the front, and be connected to the gas main under the road. Ours will have a supply routed under the gutters on the backs of the houses, then in through the rear wall to our boiler. The meter will be on the back of the house, which will be fun for the meter reader, since he'll have to go up a flight of stairs and out of the back door to find it...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
However, I don't think you have to have stress to buy a hellebore. Any time will do for any reason - except that here they cost a small fortune for very ordinary plain white flowered plants so I will resist.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
That photo reminds me of the song "Right, said Fred" for some reason (l think there was another Bernard Cribbins song about a hole in the road and a bloke in a bowler hat). I think it's do do with all the gas blokes putting their heads together and coming up with yet another cunning plan. I hope it works out for you Liri. The hellebore is a red double and rather nice, made even better by the fact that l got £5 off it with the voucher l had burning a hole in my purse (l can still hear that blessed woman's voice in my head though !)
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My children know to buy us eats or drinks for presents, or gardening stuff, now the sheds are another story😀
I just had to go and check our bin capacity - 20l. We fill one bag a fortnight, which fits nicely into our dustbin. Sadly, we produce approximately the same amount of plastic / glass / tin recycling, though we are working hard on that and it's reducing every time. Our neighbours (family of 3, we're 4) seem to fill a massive wheelie bin plus every two weeks, I don't know how.
A friend of o/h’s , I don’t known how she manages to breath as talks so much , obvious a skill 😉
We're not sure what purpose the "digging man" serves... the road is completely blocked by seven Northern Gas vans, each the width of the road. Pedestrians can squeeze through, but a woman with a push chair gave up and went back the way she'd come.
Shortly after my previous post, a gang of honchos arrived. Four of them! After running up and down stairs for a bit, they decided that this row of houses was the most difficult they'd ever had to sort out. "Your house alone would take a week," the head man said. "In fact, it's impossible to connect to a supply at the front." All the other houses will have a meter box on the front, and be connected to the gas main under the road. Ours will have a supply routed under the gutters on the backs of the houses, then in through the rear wall to our boiler. The meter will be on the back of the house, which will be fun for the meter reader, since he'll have to go up a flight of stairs and out of the back door to find it...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
However, I don't think you have to have stress to buy a hellebore. Any time will do for any reason - except that here they cost a small fortune for very ordinary plain white flowered plants so I will resist.