Travelling On

greenbee

We have a garden waste collection - it used to be bags, with one free and others paid for (in practice they took away anything that was in what looked like an official bag, so as I had lots of very similar ones from my previous house, where we got new bags every year for the paid service I did quite well out of it!). It's now a wheely bin and paid-for only, so I feel obliged to put the effort into filling it up each week! The rest gets composted. Our recycling is pretty poor, although they added glass last year to the paper/card/cans and only about two types of plastic... the hopeless plastic collection has been a good motivation for me to reduce the amount of plastic I use. Apparently we will be getting a small electricals collection sometime soon, but there's no sign of a food waste collection yet. I got myself a hotbin last year, and that seems to be OK for food waste composting - although I have yet to empty it and see what the results are like!

Karmacat

I Love Comps, sorry you've had illness problems.  I know what you mean about liking colour in the garden - one of the best for me is when my quince is flowering, its underplanted with bluebells, and the orange and the blue of the different flowers is fantastic.  Love a good tulip too.  Scabious, the bees love that, they're round the mahonia for months, I kid you not, bright yellow flowers, cotoneaster too - maybe you'll end up having a bee garden how lovely might that be, if it works for you!

*So* interesting that everywhere is so different, Cheery (and apple and RT ) I wish they'd decide in favour of FOC, I think they'd get a lot more recyclable greenery - and they actually sell the compost at the end, so they'd make more.  

End of an era for me today.  My partner who lives in the city by the sea just rang me to tell me that our ex-boss died today.  He made dozens of lives a complete misery, and we worked with many of those people for ten years or so after the event.  Working to heal what happened is one of the things that brought my partner and me so close.  I have one perfect memory of that time, a lunchbreak in high summer, when we climbed onto the flat roof of a six storey building (we used a ladder from inside, on the top floor!) and sat in the middle of a flock of seagulls that were wheeling about begging the tourists for food.  But hearing of the ex-boss's death brings the other stuff back.  

I'm so glad I'm where I am.

Staffordia

We have a recycling bin collected fortnightly, and we paid a one off payment of £25 for a second collected at the same time.  We have a food waste/garden waste bin collected fortnightly and black sacks of anything else collected weekly.  Additionally the local tip takes anything else free of charge and there doesn't seem to be any restrictions on how often private households can visit.  One of the benefits of a well run council.

apple_muncher

Our food waste is collected weekly, which is brill. And our tip has free compost at certain times of the year - just take your own shovel and bags.

Hugs, karma, for the end of that era x

Cheery_Daff

Karmacat said:

I Love Comps, sorry you've had illness problems.  I know what you mean about liking colour in the garden - one of the best for me is when my quince is flowering, its underplanted with bluebells, and the orange and the blue of the different flowers is fantastic.  Love a good tulip too.  Scabious, the bees love that, they're round the mahonia for months, I kid you not, bright yellow flowers, cotoneaster too - maybe you'll end up having a bee garden how lovely might that be, if it works for you!

*So* interesting that everywhere is so different, Cheery (and apple and RT ) I wish they'd decide in favour of FOC, I think they'd get a lot more recyclable greenery - and they actually sell the compost at the end, so they'd make more.  

End of an era for me today.  My partner who lives in the city by the sea just rang me to tell me that our ex-boss died today.  He made dozens of lives a complete misery, and we worked with many of those people for ten years or so after the event.  Working to heal what happened is one of the things that brought my partner and me so close.  I have one perfect memory of that time, a lunchbreak in high summer, when we climbed onto the flat roof of a six storey building (we used a ladder from inside, on the top floor!) and sat in the middle of a flock of seagulls that were wheeling about begging the tourists for food.  But hearing of the ex-boss's death brings the other stuff back.  

I'm so glad I'm where I am.

Gosh KC, that does indeed sound like a big thing, and I bet it's brought lots of stuff up for you. Lovely memory that you have there, on the roof with the seagulls 😊 xx

greent

Ah, kc - a mix of memories and emotions, I guess. Xx

Karmacat

Thanks people   it feels a tiny bit self indulgent to write about it, but life was full of chaos and emergencies for almost 5 years, tailing off for another five, it had a big effect on me too.   

I won't touch on it again.  Instead, I'll end with a full gratitude list, like madvix:
- my witchhazel  tree is blooming at the moment, and my 2nd bedroom, as well as my own bedroom, have spectacular views of it, its really gorgeous.
- my quince may have survived being transplanted into a dustbin filled with drainage stones and a 40 litre bag of compost, because of fencing needs.
- safety and warmth and nutritious food and all of those things - I'm very lucky.  My retirement in this little town with a good railway station is much better than it would have been isolated on the edge of the big city by the sea.  
- February!  there are new, self chosen challenges to meet, as well as existing challenges to finish (I'm glancing at you, French accounts and Coventry Building Society) ... February is mine for the choosing. 

Night night all  

Cheery_Daff

Lovely post full of gratitude KC! Are you willing to share your February challenges? Or have you already done so and I've missed it??

Karmacat

Morning Cheery!  I haven't quite got a list together yet, but I'll have one today  

rtandon27

LOL- you know we all love a good list KC!