The Retirement Thread
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I have a small black and white photo of my mum taken when she was a young woman. I took a photo of it and then enhanced the photo I'd taken to remove a crease and a few other blemishes that it had aquired over the years, I then used the software to make it a colour photo which worked remarkably well. The realisation that my mum had visited a photo studio to have the photo taken, then held it and seen it for the first time felt really poignant.
Usual Christmas pressie jiggery-pokery is happening.
MrsPete buys smally sets for relatives in Thanet.
They buy smelly sets for us here in Hamtun.
This morning, Royal Mail are collecting said 3kg parcel and taking in to them for just over £7
If only there wss another way to sort this 🤔😂
MrsPete buys smally sets for relatives in Thanet.
They buy smelly sets for us here in Hamtun.
This morning, Royal Mail are collecting said 3kg parcel and taking in to them for just over £7
If only there wss another way to sort this 🤔😂
Morning all.
A good day yesterday. Ate well and didn't need to go to bed (did have a couple of naps on my recliner). Then watched my team actually win without conceding.
A decent night's sleep and feel alive this morning.
I might do a bit of shopping this morning. I need bird food and the same farm shop sells it's own honey**.
I may take in Aldi while out and about.
**I get my honey from Aldi but the daughter is a great believer in traceable produce so it's a present for her.
They keep thier own chickens and I must say the eggs are better than supermarket ones......good colour and they stay compact when frying.
A good day yesterday. Ate well and didn't need to go to bed (did have a couple of naps on my recliner). Then watched my team actually win without conceding.
A decent night's sleep and feel alive this morning.
I might do a bit of shopping this morning. I need bird food and the same farm shop sells it's own honey**.
I may take in Aldi while out and about.
**I get my honey from Aldi but the daughter is a great believer in traceable produce so it's a present for her.
They keep thier own chickens and I must say the eggs are better than supermarket ones......good colour and they stay compact when frying.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
It’s grey bin day here but I’ll not put it out until I hear the lorry as I don’t want it blowing over and scattering the contents along the street.
Mike Ayling
Guru
- Location
- Melbourne Downunda
Please explain bin colours.
Here we have
Red - general rubbish
Yellow - recyclables
Green FOGO food and organic waste
Read an article about Honey. Apparently most honey is imported from China. A lab analysis showed that a large amount of supermarket honey had been adulterated with sugar. We buy local honey, there's a farm near Corfe Castle that produces its own, and the shop up the road sells Dorset honey. Listened to a fascinating radio program about honey, the very expensive Manuka honey comes from bees that that feed on pollen from a specific shrub in New Zealand. Of course once it became popular all the mis labelled stuff appeared and now New Zealand exports far more than the bees are capable of producing.
One UK University did an analysis of real Manuka Honey and found its unique make up. They then put in an appeal to bee keepers throughout the UK for samples from their hives. Out of all the submissions they had one that closely matched Manuka and had a specific enzyme ( iirc ). It was from a beekeeper in Wales.
Mo1959
Legendary Member
- Location
- Perthshire,Scotland
They seem to be different in most areas.
Ours are all green but have different coloured lids.
Green is general waste that’s not recyclable.
Blue is paper and cardboard.
Grey is cans, plastic, milk cartons, etc.
Brown is garden and food waste.
Black bin.. General waste
Black with a blue lid.. Recycling
Brown.. Garden waste
Little brown caddy.. Food waste
We got a letter from our council saying that they are starting up a waste food collection in the new year, April to be precise, the bins will be delivered early in January.
The previous regime stopped waste food collections about 25 years ago. This council seems very hot on recycling stuff. There are a whole host of new dual bins up in the high road to separate rubbish from recyclable stuff.
welsh dragon
Thanks but no thanks. I think I'll pass.
And the heavens have opened up again. Great
Ours have the same colour lid as the actual bin.
Black = General waste
Green = garden waste (extra charge for this)
Blue = recycled ie glass, plastic, cardboard etc.
We have just been geen a 4th one which is small and just for 'food waste'........food waste? What is this thing?
Black = General waste
Green = garden waste (extra charge for this)
Blue = recycled ie glass, plastic, cardboard etc.
We have just been geen a 4th one which is small and just for 'food waste'........food waste? What is this thing?
Grey bags - general non recycling stuff
Red reuseable Bag - tins and plastic
Blue reuseable Bag - cardboard
Green box - glass
Small green box with lid - food waste
Blue box with lid - paper
All the above boxes/bags are able to be replaced by council except now grey bags as they no longer supply them. We have to buy our own.
We can put out garden waste but given size of our garden we generate so much I have to take to tip.
My wife in particular is an avid recycler so woe betide anyone who puts wrong thing in wrong box in this house!
Red reuseable Bag - tins and plastic
Blue reuseable Bag - cardboard
Green box - glass
Small green box with lid - food waste
Blue box with lid - paper
All the above boxes/bags are able to be replaced by council except now grey bags as they no longer supply them. We have to buy our own.
We can put out garden waste but given size of our garden we generate so much I have to take to tip.
My wife in particular is an avid recycler so woe betide anyone who puts wrong thing in wrong box in this house!
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