Getting rid of garden (green) waste........not so easy as it seems.

[screenman]

Pensions dont come out of council tax money, some social care does. Pensions and other welfare benefits come of out the general taxation and from national insurance contributions.

Sorry I thought that ex council workers pensions came from what we pay in council tax, seems I have been misled.

 

[screenman]

Answered many times previously in earlier threads. Having said that, then yes those people would all have been employed on a contract that paid them a wage or salary, from which a deduction was made in return for which a pension would be paid at an agreed rate based on earnings and length of service. What is wrong with that?

Would you say that going by today's rate many have paid in enough for the amount they get, some of my many honest ex council worker friends suggest they did not. All the same good luck to them and everyone else in the same position.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Have a big bonfire then.

Could you not phone a logging firm and see if they want it? They get either fire wood or chippings to sell. other than that I'd have several small bonfires - unless it's illegal?

 

[mybike]

Our garden is about 30' long by 15' wide. The neighbour on the western side planted leylandii some years ago, and subsequently moved. Current neighbour has someone in to trim them down to 6-7' periodically and I cut my side back to the boundary with an electric trimmer bought for that sole purpose. I hope they will die.

 

[screenman]

I was thinking generous works pension paid for out of council tax money

 

[nickyboy]

Our garden is about 30' long by 15' wide. The neighbour on the western side planted leylandii some years ago, and subsequently moved. Current neighbour has someone in to trim them down to 6-7' periodically and I cut my side back to the boundary with an electric trimmer bought for that sole purpose. I hope they will die.

Bit harsh on your neighbours, I'm sure they're doing their best to keep the conifers in check

 

[mybike]

Bit harsh on your neighbours, I'm sure they're doing their best to keep the conifers in check

Yep, I knew someone would say that. But as I said, neighbour, singular.

It's the trees that need to die.

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Could you not phone a logging firm and see if they want it? They get either fire wood or chippings to sell. other than that I'd have several small bonfires - unless it's illegal?

No one wants or needs leylandii brush clippings. Not viable to load, unload etc. Sticky, smelly, ruins tools and is hard to collect the leaf. And in such small quantities and burning domestically produces acrid, white smoke. Guaranteed to piss the neighbours off.

In my experience, I am yet to see leylandii benefiting a domestic situation where a better choice of hedge/tree could have been chosen. I blame the Australians getting mixed up with the Cypriots.

That said a chunk of my income comes directly through cutting them back or down. A client uses code language to book his hedge in such is his disdain for it: 'Could you book the pig in for a haircut please?'

 

[srw]

I was thinking generous works pension paid for out of council tax money

Last time you said this you posted a link which showed that you're wrong about a third of council tax going on pensions.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Adrian, I agree with you on those points, but how did we get to a point where so much of what we pay goes into pensions, talk to any public worker and they say they deserve their pensions as they have paid into it, did they pay enough for the return they get?

Good luck with that..

The bit the privileged pensioners or soon to be retired public lot don't get is private pensions were robbed by a few so the many hard working folk got a lot less..

But then private pensions don't get a guarantee..Adrian..

Oh and again you miss quotes me..i don't have a pension as I could not afford one ..and as a lot of my self employed friends lost theirs I decided 500+ a month was to big a gamble..to have raped by a load of crooked money men.
I've unsubscribed from the bleating section so I won't have to answer you in the Cafe for a SCP thread..its against the rules for most of us to do that, but you are a legend so I don't mind x

 

[Fnaar]

Miss Goodbody has asked me to trim her bush tomorrow. I do hope there isn't too much of it.