Mundane News

[Andy in Germany]

Had one day off and when I come back the office door (previously featured in the Exciting Pigment Dehydration Updates) is not only completely painted, it also has a facing plate over the lock.

Well, I'm sure you can imagine the excitement...

 

[Illaveago]

Morning. It is grey here but it doesn't feel as cold out as the wind seems to have dropped.

For bin followers I've put the recycling out.

 

[Andy in Germany]

For bin followers I've put the recycling out.

Hang on a minute: Which recycling? All of it? How many Bins?

You can't go about giving people half the information, you know.

 

[Illaveago]

We have a nice tall grey Wheely bin with a blue lid which is for cardboard and plastics.

I included the details of the bin for bin spotters!

 

[raleighnut]

I've got the Dining room ceiling painted, got to put the light back up today and rub down the woodwork, Maz should be buying the emulsion for the walls today so well on course.

 

[Illaveago]

I was just wondering! The plastic lid of our paper, glass and tin box is splitting. How am I supposed to recycle it if we are not allowed to put black plastic in our plastic recycling?

You can look forward to me putting that box out tomorrow.

 

[Illaveago]

I've got the Dining room ceiling painted, got to put the light back up today and rub down the woodwork, Maz should be buying the emulsion for the walls today so well on course.

Is it as fancy as Michael Angelo's ceilings.

 

[Andy in Germany]

And how dry is the paint?
Is it uniformly dry or are there patches?

 

[Illaveago]

And how dry is the paint?
Is it uniformly dry or are there patches?

Inverted Archeology! It could indicate different underlying layers ?

 

[perplexed]

We have a nice tall grey Wheely bin with a blue lid which is for cardboard and plastics.

I included the details of the bin for bin spotters!

Our black 'rubbish' bin lives outside.

We have a slim blue bin which used to be for glass/tin/plastic.

The blue bin is now for paper/cardboard.

We have a brand new brown bin which is for glass/tin/plastic.

We used to have a blue box with an ill-fitting cover made out of a sort of 'groundsheet' material. This was for paper and cardboard but has been usurped by the blue bin having been 'repurposed'.*

The brown bin and the blue bin now live in the garage with the lids open, as I invariably go out there and run out of hands to open the lids to put the recycling in. (The garage door is remote control).




* To keep this mundane and allevieat the possible tension arising from my post, I will relay the following information about the blue box's fate...
The council allowed residents to keep the blue box. It is quite sturdy. Some of the council's suggestions included possibly reusing it as a flower pot.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Bins R Us..here too we have 4.

Not too much of a problem as we have plenty of room for them.
But terrace streets are just ridiculous with bins all over the place.

And most don't get used correctly and then stay full and overflowing,which is very nice ,all good for the areas and helps promote a clean tidy way of life Not

 

[Levo-Lon]

It feels like winter today..I had to put a fleece and my hat on!!

 

[raleighnut]

Is it as fancy as Michael Angelo's ceilings.

No but it's flat now, we had the (badly) Artexed ceiling overboarded and skimmed so it has been a long job not helped by my 'cripple' status and the fact I can only do 'stuff' for a couple of hours a day before the pain in my bad leg becomes too much and I have to stop.

The fact that the Dining room is also home to my HiFi and all the LPs/CDs/Tapes/Minidiscs etc didn't help, it took 3 days to empty the room.

 

[MikeG]

I was just wondering! The plastic lid of our paper, glass and tin box is splitting. How am I supposed to recycle it if we are not allowed to put black plastic in our plastic recycling? .........

You ring the council, they collect it and replace it, then deal with recycling the old one themselves.

 

[Illaveago]

Snow!