Travelling On

Karmacat

To get the most bang for the buck out of the rubbish collection, I chopped back the neighbour's leylandii at the front, its more than two feet over my property line, so time for another cull. It's good doing it at this time of year, makes the most of the sunlight in the winter. And *their* living room must be incredibly dark.

Posted a birthday card, with the first of the genealogy CDs, that was a big win.

Paid the credit card - they did reimburse me the mad interest they mistakenly charged me, so that was good. But I also had to get some more money into the current account I really need to take some time and work out my finances, see how much I've spent this year, and what on ... I actually have no idea. Well, I do, but you know what I mean!

Getting the bin full also meant I started to tidy up the tiny little table in the porch - it had so much stuff on it, it wasn't useable, grrr. And thats whats been getting to me, paying so little attention to where I live, it becomes an unpleasant place to live. Better to go at my own pace and enjoy living where I live.

the_cross_rabbit

Sounds like you've had a productive day.
CRx

beanielou

Good news on the interest.

Karmacat

Thanks both - yes, pretty good really. I was determined I wasn't giving myself a long list of things to do, I was feeling very pressured yesterday, so apart from wanting to fill a rubbish bag with leylandii trimmings, I did just go at a snail's pace and I may have read quite a few blog articles I like

earthgirl

Love the idea of getting bang for your buck on bin collections

Hope you are not pressured by the need to do notes for your group?

Glad you enjoyed the blog posts.

rtandon27

KC - do you pay per bin pick up as they do in the States? - or is it that you are only (like we are) allowed only one full bin at each pick up so are making the most of every load? This applies to our rubbish which we never fill up (usually 1/3) and our recycle which seems to always fill up to bursting - usually with cardboard.
We are of course very rural but surprisingly have no garden waste pick up at all so have to add all our bits to the farm's burning pile which when it wafts over can be quite unpleasant!!! At least it is at most once a week. - RT

pinkypig

Well done on the clearing and sorting. I used to fill my garden bin every two weeks but got out of the habit. I'm going to aim to get back into the habit - thanks for the nudge:D

Hope your own pace productivity continues - it's a great approach.

PP xx

Karmacat

earthgirl wrote: »

Hope you are not pressured by the need to do notes for your group?

Glad you enjoyed the blog posts.

Thanks for this I might have felt pressured, but I refused to commit to definitely doing it, and especially not a date, just said I thought I could work something up at some stage

rtandon27 wrote: »

KC - do you pay per bin pick up as they do in the States? - or is it that you are only (like we are) allowed only one full bin at each pick up so are making the most of every load? This applies to our rubbish which we never fill up (usually 1/3) and our recycle which seems to always fill up to bursting - usually with cardboard.
We are of course very rural but surprisingly have no garden waste pick up at all so have to add all our bits to the farm's burning pile which when it wafts over can be quite unpleasant!!! At least it is at most once a week. - RT

They charge £65 a year for green bin collection round here, so I don't do it and I confess, I put my green waste in the ordinary (fortnightly) bin collection, which you're not supposed to do. Tough on them! Like you, RT, I have very little actual rubbish from the house - the packaging from gluten free pasta, dried beans and feta cheese , and the lids from jars of pesto being notable exceptions

. I'm trying to put some garden clippings in the compost bin now I can reach it, the exceptions being ivy, because it roots so easily, leylandii and cherry laurel because they don't compost down so easily. So using the capacity of the bin means getting rid of the ivy/leylandii/cherry laurel :cool:


I was wanting a bonfire, of course, but that wouldn't fill the bin :rotfl:

pinkypig wrote: »

Well done on the clearing and sorting. I used to fill my garden bin every two weeks but got out of the habit. I'm going to aim to get back into the habit - thanks for the nudge:D

Hope your own pace productivity continues - it's a great approach.

Thanks PP appreciated.

Karmacat

So, today, more of the same: tidying (my bedroom, or the porch, or more leylandii in the bin, or the genealogy notes), make the rest of the CDs for the family, and back up the computer. I keep thinking of it as securing my launchpad (as well as astronomy, I'm big time into human space flight :rotfl:).

themadvix

I rang my council recycling officer and he told me I could put jar and bottle lids in the recycling (with metal/plastic, mixed round here). Might be worth checking?

I hope you have a productive day - and that that's an 'or' list not 'and'! No flying off into space! :P