Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

neverdespairgirl

michaels wrote: »

here I am three hours later and it is....finally working...altough if the unit ever powers off apparently it needs to be done all over again

Put masking tape over the power button to make sure no [STRIKE]half-wit[/STRIKE] loved family member turns it off by mistake?

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My maternal uncle won the prize for "least intelligible comment to a child" when he said to Isaac, "Germany's the only country in the EU which doesn't have a structural budget deficit." He's a very clever, well-educated, interesting man, with apparently absolutely no concept of what even a fairly bright 8 year old might understand.

That means nothing to me either......

neverdespairgirl

Fair to say, the audience apart from Isaac was divided between don't knows and don't cares.....

I do have a vague idea what it means - I think it means that Germany's not running a budget deficit in good times as well as bad. While the rest of the EU is in trouble with govt borrowing even while not in recession. Something like that. Generali can tell me all the ways in which I've misunderstood that, though!

silvercar

michaels wrote:

They changed ours with cardboard that used to go in the big green wheelie bin having to be put into one of the small boxes which is a bit of a fail when you are dealing with packaging for a large item like a bike.

Our cardboard now needs to go in the brown bin rather than the green. This leaves the green bin completely empty and the brown bin overflowing.

Interesting article in The Times that says councils are patting themselves on the back for increasing recycling but a lot of the increase is people lobbing their garden waste into a green bin rather than composting it themselves.

lostinrates

Having ranted about bins, I'll say something good now. Our cardboard collection changed last year/ beginning of this year to be in its own wheelie with plastic bottles. Its fab. Alternate weeks with normal wheelie. Its the only rubbish collection I use.

For those talking about council tax payments our council get so rethink like £1.34 per household. It will cost them more than that from the village before us to our place and our neighbours' in fuel and certainly man time, so we are winners on that score. I've also cost the service a little my erecting a fence in our drive way meaning the swoop turn they used to do ( we are the end of the line) to return is now a three point one. In a decade or so that will be even harder for them when I have gates, or more clients cars there or what ever.

PasturesNew

Just tried to go outside again/take some snaps - it's mental out there! Far too dangerous to be wandering around looking .....

chewmylegoff

We have a plethora of recycling bins of different shapes and sizes. I'm unsure what you should put in each but I do know the sound they make when the bin men throw them back over our hedge at 5am.

Generali

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Fair to say, the audience apart from Isaac was divided between don't knows and don't cares.....

I do have a vague idea what it means - I think it means that Germany's not running a budget deficit in good times as well as bad. While the rest of the EU is in trouble with govt borrowing even while not in recession. Something like that. Generali can tell me all the ways in which I've misunderstood that, though!

Pretty much there.

What it means is that if you spread Government deficits and surpluses over a cycle of boom and bust, Germany's not increasing her debt:GDP ratio. Other countries are.

It's a bit like someone who gets an annual bonus and builds up his overdraft during the year in anticipation of it. Over the year, net borrowing is nil.

SingleSue

We have three bins, one for garden waste, another for recycling and then the one for general rubbish.

We did (at one point) have a crate for newspapers and magazines but mine went flying down the road in a gale and under the wheels of the recycling lorry years ago...plus they phased them out when the recycling bin came in.

NDG - Hehe, nope she doesn't look anything like me.

Long day yesterday as we took James back to uni, traffic was a nightmare and my back, after days of abuse since my wheelchair broke, was equally bad. Mind you, at least it gave me and lovverrr a chance to have some time to ourselves, albeit in a traffic jam on the M25, the only chance we have had during the school holidays.

chewmylegoff

Got up, looked out of window, back in bed now!