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gavroche

Getting old but not past it
Location
North Wales
Can't you clean or wash the slippers?

Could have done but they were old anyway and that was the right excuse for a change.
 
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.

Thanks Mo.
Our bins are green as well. I was talking about the lids.
Your recyclables are split.
The Victoria Gummint has recentlly introduced a ten cent deposit on cans and glass bottles which are no longer appearing in the recyclables bins.
 

Exlaser2

Veteran
Evening all .
No much to report today , done some shopping , got my hair cut and have just put the bin out 😀

Talking of bins, we have three in Coventry.
1) A brown lidded one for garden waste and food waste which is collected every two weeks ( other than the couple of collections around Christmas when they do extra recycling collections ).
2) A green lidded one for general waste and food waste which is collected every two weeks , the same week as the brown bin .
3) A blue lidded bin for all the recycling, also collected every two weeks on the opposite week to the other bins .

It’s a simple system that works well as it’s easy to remember 😀
 
Don’t know. I never waste food. :laugh: I think technically you are supposed to put things like tea bags,potato peelings, etc in them.

Potato peelings qualify as food waste but our son composts all our stuff.
Tea bags are made of plastic and do not break down. Ours go into general waste in the red top.
Cooked food scraps eg chop bones etc go into the food waste bin.
 
Always Earl Grey for me, PG is like sweepings off the floor

Earl Grey is an acquired taste and I have never acquired it!
 
Just seen an article on the news

Archaeologists have found evidence of humans creating fire - multiply times so not an accident - in Sussex

This was 400,00 years ago - the earliest evidence of deliberate fire making ever found

Which is amazing

It shows that England was cold and wet even 400,000 years ago!



now they need to look for evidence of trade route to India at the same time - otherwise how were they making tea???
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Just seen an article on the news

Archaeologists have found evidence of humans creating fire - multiply times so not an accident - in Sussex

This was 400,00 years ago - the earliest evidence of deliberate fire making ever found

Which is amazing

It shows that England was cold and wet even 400,000 years ago!



now they need to look for evidence of trade route to India at the same time - otherwise how were they making tea???
They were got used to making fire, it were keeping it going they couldn't get the hang of.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
Good morning all fellow retirees.
It's going to be a dry day here with a bit of a breeze.
Today's task is to put a new sliding bolt onto the outside of the back gate, but first I have to cut some timber to build up a base for the bolt to screw to so the bolt will slide into the post.
Dinner will be a freezer surprise, there are a couple of boxes with something I have cooked, but there are no labels on them. I will probably have to cycle up to the local shops for a bit of fresh veg to go with them. It gives me an excuse for a bike ride. :bicycle:
 
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