CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Or "back in the day". Especially used by a 17 year old when he's talking about when he was 16.
Things you'd like to say, but can't
- Thread starter Stig-OT-Dump
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It's a nasty habit anywhere but Hebden Bridge is definitely too beautiful a place to spoil with litter. My sister used to live in part of a converted mill in a place called Luddendon Foot I think? I just remember driving up a bloody steep hill from the main road (after having already just driven up another from Sowerby Bridge) and it was on the right over looking a valley. It was very nice but one of those gated community places where you can't even fart without permission from the 'committee'I used to get that with my non-recycling neighbours in Hebden Bridge! They would fill a wheelie bin in a couple of days and then all the other bins in the street would mysteriously start to fill themselves late at night...
As for tourists taking rubbish away - good luck with that! Round here they just toss it out of their cars. Verges on popular moorland roads are littered most places that I ride.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
That is probably Oats Royd Mill. It is a fine conversion, especially when you see what happened to the mill back in 1989 - PHOTO!!!It's a nasty habit anywhere but Hebden Bridge is definitely too beautiful a place to spoil with litter. My sister used to live in part of a converted mill in a place called Luddendon Foot I think? I just remember driving up a bloody steep hill from the main road (after having already just driven up another from Sowerby Bridge) and it was on the right over looking a valley. It was very nice but one of those gated community places where you can't even fart without permission from the 'committee'
It is in a fantastic location overlooking the Luddenden valley. Luddenden is below that, and Luddenden Foot is further down on the A646 in the Calder Valley itself.
One reviewer on Trip Advisor agrees with your assessment...
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Ha Ha, they have obviously met my Sister thenThat is probably Oats Royd Mill. It is a fine conversion, especially when you see what happened to the mill back in 1989 - PHOTO!!!
It is in a fantastic location overlooking the Luddenden valley. Luddenden is below that, and Luddenden Foot is further down on the A646 in the Calder Valley itself.
One reviewer on Trip Advisor agrees with your assessment...
Yes that's the place as I remember her having a copy of that photo herself. My children were quite young at the time and loved the trip on the Steam Train from Settle to Keighley. A lovely area though.
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
As a team we fail to meet standards too often, clean as you go, toolbox and ladder security etc, niggly things but things that are necessary to comply with customer standards...basically just working in a self regulated professional manner, tidily.
Why do we fail ? Because the department manager is the worst offender.
I should add hes a very very good manager, highly skilled, extremely knowledgeable across a range of disciplines...and a nice fella.
But he is a get the job done person, his enthusiasm is boundless, but he is not interested in the fluff around the edges...that's why we fail.
Why do we fail ? Because the department manager is the worst offender.
I should add hes a very very good manager, highly skilled, extremely knowledgeable across a range of disciplines...and a nice fella.
But he is a get the job done person, his enthusiasm is boundless, but he is not interested in the fluff around the edges...that's why we fail.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Is that better for people who can't see numbers and letters in 10 inches high white paint...?
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
It’s what we do in addition to large numbers on the outside, if someone scrapes them off or paints over them, they might miss small descreet numbers hidden inside.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I will use a hot soldering iron to 'engrave' my address onto the next bin. I'll paint over that to make it more obvious.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Well, the exciting wheelie bin news came sooner than expected...@potsy - there will be another exciting episode of 'Wheelie Bin Wars, Todmorden' in about 10 days time - watch this space!
It has been very wet here today so I didn't fancy cycling to the shops and walked instead. I took a different route to my usual one, down a road, along a stretch of alley, and then turned down a side street. Hang on...
I spotted a bin in an unusual location on the pavement behind a parked van. I just had a feeling so I wandered towards it and saw my house number painted on its side. AHA! I took a closer look and discovered...
... that the street name was missing, so it wasn't mine after all. I had a look at the house numbers on that street - there was a house of the right number about 60 metres away. If the bin belonged to the household of that number then there wouldn't be a bin in their yard or stretch of alley. I walked down the alley and they had a bin there. With the right number on it. But ALSO without my street name on it. WTF!!!
So... I have found a free bin with the right number on it, but it isn't mine. What to do?
I decided that somebody round here has MY bin and this one must be theirs so I have brought it round to my back yard for now. There is no bin collection until a week tomorrow. I'll go out and check the bins next week, as planned. If I spot mine, I'll swap it for the one that I found today. If I can't find mine then I will engrave/repaint this one!
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It sounds like you may have uncovered a major crime 'byndicate' operating on your patch there Guvnor! It might even be one of those gangs that steals high performance 'Wheelies' to order and ships them abroad, or a chop shop where they break them down for parts (Lid/Wheels etc..).. Be careful it could turn nastyWell, the exciting wheelie bin news came sooner than expected...
It has been very wet here today so I didn't fancy cycling to the shops and walked instead. I took a different route to my usual one, down a road, along a stretch of alley, and then turned down a side street. Hang on...
I spotted a bin in an unusual location on the pavement behind a parked van. I just had a feeling so I wandered towards it and saw my house number painted on its side. AHA! I took a closer look and discovered...
... that the street name was missing, so it wasn't mine after all. I had a look at the house numbers on that street - there was a house of the right number about 60 metres away. If the bin belonged to the household of that number then there wouldn't be a bin in their yard or stretch of alley. I walked down the alley and they had a bin there. With the right number on it. But ALSO without my street name on it. WTF!!!
So... I have found a free bin with the right number on it, but it isn't mine. What to do?
I decided that somebody round here has MY bin and this one must be theirs so I have brought it round to my back yard for now. There is no bin collection until a week tomorrow. I'll go out and check the bins next week, as planned. If I spot mine, I'll swap it for the one that I found today. If I can't find mine then I will repaint this one!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I'm just waiting for some 6' 9" bloke to hammer on my door and threaten me for taking his bin...!
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
If anybody has any problems with a picture of a racist on their five pound notes then please send them to me.
Chris S
Legendary Member
- Location
- Birmingham
Where did the BAME acronym come from? Shouldn't it be Black And Ethnic Minorities (BAEM)? And why do Black people have to be specified separately from other ethnic minorities?
