Progress not Perfection

Makingabobor2

Oh, poor you. Must be a nightmare trying to work with all the noise and vibration.  Surely they should have given people warning, in case they needed to get their cars out before it started. 

RelievedSheff

beanielou said:

Interesting how all the councils are different. 

We can recycle soft plastics & cat food pouches and hard plastic & tins all in one bin.  Amazing how quickly that bin fills up. 

Our local authority also takes soft plastics in the recycling bin but randomly we can't put glass in there!

Makingabobor2

We can put stretchy plastic, plastic tubs etc, foil, paper/cardboard, glass, tin, tetrapak in our kerbside bins. But not crinkly plastic wrap, that goes to supermarket.  I found that my eco zero waste refill shop, takes certain things for recycling, which she sends to T*tr*cyc!*......pens ( including felt pens etc), plastic cards (library cards, debit cards, loyalty cards etc), cheese wrappers, ink cartridges, and bras (sent to 3rd world countries I believe).  
Also most Ag* UK CSs take old rags, so any old cleaning cloths, clothes etc that aren't good enough for anything else. I believe they get money for the weight of them. Not sure what happens to them after that TBH.  

Sun_Addict

Makingabobor2 said:

Oh, poor you. Must be a nightmare trying to work with all the noise and vibration.  Surely they should have given people warning, in case they needed to get their cars out before it started. 

We had a letter put through our doors last week advising people to move their cars if they were parked on the road but it didn't mention drives. However they're moving along the road pretty quickly. My desk is shaking at the moment 😆

Sun_Addict

Oh my days, tried to connect the WiFi repeater to the router and it completely bu$$ered up the internet. I had to phone VM and they said it was because the router we have from them is outdated so they're sending a replacement. However we only use their router as a modem as we have an industrial strength router for DD's gaming. I had to disconnect our router and they talked me through switching back to theirs but it wouldn't work hence it needing to be replaced. I thought I was going to have to go into the office as I have a meeting this afternoon but I tried resetting our router with a pin and happy days it worked. DD had to reset the password though but it's all sorted. I don't know for sure whether I messed it up or whether it was just a coincidence as when I tried to set up the repeater it said it couldn't find a WiFi connection. Anyway I've boxed it up and it's going back as I daren't risk it again. I'm getting a decent signal in my office at the moment since the router was reset so I'll await a response from the seller of the broken one. 

milann

It all sounds a bit chaotic SA…..routers, diggers, worried cats a😳😳🥴🥴 Just make sure MRSA doesn’t add to it by falling down a hole in the road on his scooter. Hope you get chance to unwind this evening.

Cherryfudge

I would really struggle with all that noise... I hope they are soon gone.

milann said:

 make sure MRSA doesn’t add to it by falling down a hole in the road on his scooter. 

For a moment I thought 'Oh no! they could do without getting a superbug!'. Then I read it properly.

Going back briefly to recycling, our Ryman's stationery shop recycles all sorts of pens from biros to felt tips to markers.

Sun_Addict

Morning all.

I'm in the office today which is probably just as well because the digger is parked outside our house ready for digging up the road later no doubt. They have left those plastic barriers all over the pavement and with this blooming low level street lighting I kept banging into them as I couldn't see a thing! I hate this street lighting it makes it almost pitch black on our road.

I was up at 4.30 which is a bit earlier than I usually get up for work but I was awake and no point trying to get back to sleep for 30 minutes. It meant I had time to read a chapter of my book with a coffee and not have to rush. 

I'm doing my usual Friday lunchtime finish. It's super quiet in the office at the moment, there are only 5 of us here and I've got 3 banks of desks all to myself. It will be a different story by 9am no doubt.

It's a bit windy and spitting with rain here, we only have a moderate wind warning so I'm hoping the storm won't hit us.

In money dealings, I've sent an oddment of £9.45 to the Christmas pot. My 6 months regular saver is maturing on 5 February, this is my holiday pot. I need to ask them to close the account and send it to the current account as our April holiday balance is due to be paid mid-February. I always start my holiday countdown once the balance has been paid. I will then open up another 6 months saver for the September holiday (not yet booked). It won't be a NSD as I need to buy some pillow spray from B00ts and also need to pop into Lid!. 

Exercise will be walking to/from work and a short yoga session before getting in the bath.

Tonight's dinner is lightly dusted yellowfin sole with steamed veg.  

Makingabobor2

You were lucky to get to work without too many problems. Wind is getting up here now. 
Yellow fin sole sounds good, one of my favourites

RelievedSheff

I think we must be too far south to have felt the full force of the storm.