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The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.
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Lots of nice places around there. I really like Wells-Next-The-Sea.
Wells is lovely. It's great to walk round to Holkham on the beach, then back through the pine woods. Two completely terrains. Afterwards, treat yourself to a pancake on the Dutch barge moored on the quay.
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There's nobody in our street using the food recycling caddies any longer. Unfortunately, the foxes worked out how to open the lids, and we all got fed up with rotten food scattered round the streets and our gardens.
Previously, we were told to put food waste in the green garden waste bins, and that worked well for us. However, I expect the composting centres were over-run with vermin.
So that's how Barnet works. Something needs changing, so change it, but don't worry if the changed system does not work.
We certainly have foxes here - I see them quite often. I know friends who've lost chickens to them, and I had to warn New Neighbours about them when they were saying they felt much more confident about leaving the guinea pigs out in their outdoor run/hutch here than where they used to live because there didn't seem to be many cats. However, our foxes don't seem interested in the food caddies. We have little ones that we can keep in our kitchens, and bigger ones that we empty the little ones into, and that go out to the kerbside every week to be collected. Do you have both sizes? Depending on the position of the handle, the lid is either locked or unlocked, which may deter the foxes a bit I suppose. Here's a pic from another council that has the same two sizes we have.
Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
We certainly have foxes here - I see them quite often. I know friends who've lost chickens to them, and I had to warn New Neighbours about them when they were saying they felt much more confident about leaving the guinea pigs out in their outdoor run/hutch here than where they used to live because there didn't seem to be many cats. However, our foxes don't seem interested in the food caddies. We have little ones that we can keep in our kitchens, and bigger ones that we empty the little ones into, and that go out to the kerbside every week to be collected. Do you have both sizes? Depending on the position of the handle, the lid is either locked or unlocked, which may deter the foxes a bit I suppose. Here's a pic from another council that has the same two sizes we have.
Same system here. The foxes have worked out that knocking the bins over dislodges the handles, and the food spills out conveniently for them.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Blimey it's windy.... I think my house will become a bungalow overnight! It's a wind that sometimes sounds like a train thundering through! Never a good sound.... I HATE the wind. What it is capable of doing has always petrified me - especially as it seems to be windiest at night for some reason, when you can only hear what's out there and not see a thing!
While I'm on the subject, one of the reasons I'd like a bungalow is I've never been particularly comfortable being responsible for a whole house - the majority of which is way up there in the sky and tricky to access... bungalow roofs are more accessible to more people who might be in a position to "take a little look" ... and there's more chance that one could observe a roof for problems on one's own without too much trouble; not by getting up there ... I mean by standing over the road and looking
Had to pop out earlier... strangely enough, I saw a fox. He trotted out of a garden, looked at me, turned and trotted back. He was adult but looked quite skeletal.
EDIT: Wind's got wilder. Door knocker's banging like a madman... gusting at 56mph. Checking ventusky - it's going to be getting worse in the coming hours (it says 64mph at midnight) .... oh dear... oh dear oh dear. The wind has always petrified me 0 -
Same system here. The foxes have worked out that knocking the bins over dislodges the handles, and the food spills out conveniently for them.
Evidently your foxes are much cleverer than the ones where I live. :rotfl:PasturesNew wrote: »Blimey it's windy.... I think my house will become a bungalow overnight! It's a wind that sometimes sounds like a train thundering through! Never a good sound.... I HATE the wind. What it is capable of doing has always petrified me - especially as it seems to be windiest at night for some reason, when you can only hear what's out there and not see a thing!
EDIT: Wind's got wilder. Door knocker's banging like a madman... gusting at 56mph. Checking ventusky - it's going to be getting worse in the coming hours.... oh dear... oh dear oh dear. The wind has always petrified me
Pretty wild here too. Lots of gusty wind, and also rain that sounds heavier than it really is because my en-suite has a velux window, and they always make rain sound much louder.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0 -
"Door knocker's banging like a madman... gusting at 56mph."
Blu Tac or sticky tape are your friends! No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
It's gusting directly onto that door ... I don't fancy opening it and faffing about (also, not got the right sort of tape and that door was painted the other week so I'd hate to rip a chunk out of the paint when I peel it off in the morning. ... I have blutac ... about 8' away."Door knocker's banging like a madman... gusting at 56mph."
Blu Tac or sticky tape are your friends!
It is probably the worst that flap's ever lifted/banged.
Might have to do it... it's just 10' away from here... so very annoying.
I just don't fancy going to the effort.... see if I can "get away with it" - wind might shift round in a bit.
Back to "trees" and me not doing trees.... that is ESPECIALLY so in weather like this. Wind and trees.... two unfavourites combined with potentially catastrophic outcomes. So glad I've no longer got a monster tree looming over my house... so glad.0 -
Is it loud enough to disturb your neighbours?
You could just stuff a carrier bag or towel in the letter box if that's the bit making the noise.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
City slickers!
Indeed. Ours have the choice of suburban gardens here, or woods and fields a few hundred yards away, where there are presumably rabbits and other such prey. Maybe they've never been hungry and desperate enough to put in the effort required to work out what to do with the food caddies.Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.0
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