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Quoting from previous thread - we have to book slots down here too. That and the other restrictions they've put on tip use has massively increased fly tipping around hereThat sounds like the perfect tonic.
We are going to the tip today. You have to book a slot which seems extreme but we are in a southern area of the NE so maybe not. All bets are off round here a lot of the time it seems. No students though.
Hope things are as good as they can be given the circumstances. Thinking of you and your parent. Hospitals are so stressful for everyone involved and it must feel like the world has stopped. We are here for a paw or some panda love if need be.
We have 'hard rubbish' collection, free up to twice a year. Book online then put your stuff out on the right day. Some things can't be put out like dirty engine parts and chemicals but it's a good system. That's how we got our two piece 5 seat couch, someone left it out.
Perfect condition, just a spray of Glen 20 and a vacuum needed.
Caturday Susan Softpaws on the bed.
Perfect condition, just a spray of Glen 20 and a vacuum needed.
Caturday Susan Softpaws on the bed.
So Mrs T has one right next to work. No booking (only a few miles from where we are). The one local to us- booking. Our old one, which was the only one for miles, no booking. We went to Harrogate (not to go to the tip 
) a few weeks ago and they had a queue easily half a mile long to get in. Crazy.
Apologies for boring post. Puppy tax (I’m not crying, you are.)
) a few weeks ago and they had a queue easily half a mile long to get in. Crazy.Apologies for boring post. Puppy tax (I’m not crying, you are.)
We have to pay for rubbish collection. I had to pay for the broken wardrobe that wouldn’t fit in the car to go in to the tip. 6 items for £23. I almost got rid of Mrs T that morning tbh, she was doing my head in so much.
That face! I know spaniels aren't known for being calm but she has such a mellow face.So Mrs T has one right next to work. No booking (only a few miles from where we are). The one local to us- booking. Our old one, which was the only one for miles, no booking. We went to Harrogate (not to go to the tip
Apologies for boring post. Puppy tax (I’m not crying, you are.)
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We had a major zoomie last night. 11 and still a puppy at heart.
That photo was taken about 1/2 mile from here. We think she can remember some smells because she goes crazy when we take her to the places where we trained (or tried to!) her.
Can you tell we got our broadband last night? I was on the verge of having to buy a data bundle.
That photo was taken about 1/2 mile from here. We think she can remember some smells because she goes crazy when we take her to the places where we trained (or tried to!) her.
Can you tell we got our broadband last night? I was on the verge of having to buy a data bundle.
We have to book slots and turn up with proof of living in the borough. If you can't get to the tip (sorry, "waste and recycling centre") you can book a bulky waste collection but it costs £25 so guess what? Yep, everyone just dumps their stuff then reports a fly tip on the council website.Quoting from previous thread - we have to book slots down here too. That and the other restrictions they've put on tip use has massively increased fly tipping around here
Half the time you pay for a collection and they either don't turn up, or they turn up and say they can't find it when it's right there, or someone's taken it away before the collection happens.
We could only go today because we had to wait for “proper” proof of living here 
A completion statement would not suffice apparently.
They did collect our wardrobe which is gutting because they would have taken Mrs T too. Yesterday she left the shower light on from when she had the shower until when we went to bed (about 2 hours). When I pointed this out to her, she said “well you left the kitchen light on all last night, but I decided to do the kind thing and not tell you.”
A) I come up first so it wasn’t me
B) I go down first and it wasn’t on
C) duck off
A completion statement would not suffice apparently. They did collect our wardrobe which is gutting because they would have taken Mrs T too
. Yesterday she left the shower light on from when she had the shower until when we went to bed (about 2 hours). When I pointed this out to her, she said “well you left the kitchen light on all last night, but I decided to do the kind thing and not tell you.” A) I come up first so it wasn’t me
B) I go down first and it wasn’t on
C) duck off
For us it's £32 for up to 4 items. If it's white goods it's £24 per item.
My mum had a weirdly unisex/male name,(even her middle name) especially being born amongst all the Shirleys, Joans and Margarets of the Depression era. She used to let my bf's dad use her land rates papers so he could go to the tip for free. Cheeky.
It wasn't Jack, btw.
It wasn't Jack, btw.
Thanks for the new thread, Witchfinder. You're the thread master. You're our tour guide, "come this way, follow the umbrella."
Speaking of tips, we're receiving a skip bin this week. It's cheaper for me to do that than pay for tip drops. Our shire's tip fees are complex and our home is the first property on our road that falls into "farming zone" so we don't even have weekly red bin rubbish collection.
So I take small bags of our house rubbish to street bins. This is, of course, not lawful. And for the clear-out stuff, the skip bin this week. Fortunately we don't generate much household landfill and I acknowledge my bandit life and own it.
My heartfelt empathy for all your tip travails.
Omg, W is talking to a friend and has come out twice in 5 minutes to ask me if clocks are going forward or back. "The clocks are going forward, yes? You said Spring forward, Fall back." "I did, mother, but it's Autumn, not Spring." "Oh, yes."
Update, friend to whom W was speaking, lives in a cabin that she owns in the local caravan park. Friend just said she believes someone has stolen her underwear and washing powder. I would like to put your minds at rest: no one has stolen her underwear, or her washing powder.
Speaking of tips, we're receiving a skip bin this week. It's cheaper for me to do that than pay for tip drops. Our shire's tip fees are complex and our home is the first property on our road that falls into "farming zone" so we don't even have weekly red bin rubbish collection.
So I take small bags of our house rubbish to street bins. This is, of course, not lawful. And for the clear-out stuff, the skip bin this week. Fortunately we don't generate much household landfill and I acknowledge my bandit life and own it.
My heartfelt empathy for all your tip travails.
Omg, W is talking to a friend and has come out twice in 5 minutes to ask me if clocks are going forward or back. "The clocks are going forward, yes? You said Spring forward, Fall back." "I did, mother, but it's Autumn, not Spring." "Oh, yes."
Update, friend to whom W was speaking, lives in a cabin that she owns in the local caravan park. Friend just said she believes someone has stolen her underwear and washing powder. I would like to put your minds at rest: no one has stolen her underwear, or her washing powder.
I'm feeling very blessed (and enraged for the other ninnies!), in our little pocket of the Southlands we can rock up to the tip whenever we choose. One particular tip are also very reasonable in terms of the chargeable waste disposal (e.g. rubble) (the pricing scale seems to be Tip Employee looks at your boot and goes "aaaaaaaaaaaaah give us 8 quid")
I've never tried to get the council to do kerbside collection though, I expect they're noodles as I remember a fridge living outside a house opposite us in our old place for three weeks. Or maybe the fridge chuckers were just hopeful.
I've never tried to get the council to do kerbside collection though, I expect they're noodles as I remember a fridge living outside a house opposite us in our old place for three weeks. Or maybe the fridge chuckers were just hopeful.
I am a little nervous today. Husband and I have been invited to a lunch with people from my uni days various who I haven't seen in approximately 8 years. I dropped out of the social group because I had to pause my studies for multiple years multiple times because of the ode undiagnosed 'tism and untreated bad mentals. Then once I got better, I withdrew because of the shame/not wanting to think about how ill I had been and you know, life. I also realised recently the pandemic really did a number on my in person social anxiety. All my pals I remain in regular contact with are OG ones from school and scattered round the country. But I am both nervous and curious and hopefully it will be nice
Highlands is £27.70 for up to 3 items and £55.40 for up to 6. Mr F is itching to get rid of a lot of our furniture, particularly the sofas, which are now 17 years old and have holes in the seat cushions because our collie likes to dig himself a nest when he settles down to sleep (the digging usually means the throws over them end up on the floor!) but I have pointed out that replacing them with the leather sofas of his dreams is only likely to end in angst, because you're not going to change the habits of a nearly-9-year-old collie who likes his comforts.
I consider that the collie would learn very fast! I'm all for a dog's luxurious life, but a leather sofa of dreams, with throws intact, would be so enjoyable.
Wish my dog would dig holes in W's disgusting salmon coloured 1989 leather lounge.
Anyway I'm not really in a position to provide suggestions: last night I told Pips to hop on her bed, so she jumped on mine.
PS cat sends his love to all. He's still my favourite cat and his antics are lovely. He's not been pushed aside
Wish my dog would dig holes in W's disgusting salmon coloured 1989 leather lounge.
Anyway I'm not really in a position to provide suggestions: last night I told Pips to hop on her bed, so she jumped on mine.
PS cat sends his love to all. He's still my favourite cat and his antics are lovely. He's not been pushed aside
A new friend at the post office 
for Caturday.
for Caturday.
Rubbish and councils here drive me mad. We only have a recycling collections no waste so pay a fortune for disposal. I now pay a private company for waste as OH is immobile with other health issues. Our council charge us $1400 a year for recycling … on top of this we pay a private company to take non recyclables away and that company has to pay the council, so they make double out of us.
]We are currently having a huge renovation so OH can have a shower in the bathroom ( he needs a wet area shower) instead of on the deck ( we installed an outside shower very hastily last year via our fabulous plumber when OH was discharged from a 6 month hospital stay) the outside shower doesn’t have a consent ( planning permission) but was properly installed. I asked the council to waive fees for OH having an inside shower as it was a necessity not a ‘want’. They ‘sympathised’ but then insisted on charging us $5000 just for it to be legal. We use qualified builders, electricians, painters and plumbers ( plumbers have been amazing) . If OH were to go into a home ( he has refused he has a home and it’s here - hospital really wanted him to go straight to a home, despite him being much younger than most residents and many not meeting his physical needs). He would cost $4000 a week in care as he is classed as high needs. Whereas him being at home costs $800 a week in carers allowance to me. The system is crazy. The council from rubbish to consents to doing anything practical to support the disabled community ( apart from wearing a t shirt representing supporting disability) will not offer practical support to those who are managing independently and saving the taxpayer over $10000 a year. The council even insist on nearly $200 a year for dog registration and that’s for dogs who are never in trouble, are fenced, exercised in the correct areas at the correct times, desexed, microchipped and have never been a noise nuisance.
In many ways we have been lucky to have savings ( although the account is looking pretty depleted) have great tradies, but boy does it feel that the Council has no interest in actually supporting ratepayers who do the right thing. Sorry, am exceptionally grumpy tonight and the refuse thing has set me off mention the council/ waste management etc and my language is deplorable.
Plus I haven’t seen my beautiful boy in over two months or met my newly adopted rescue girl ( both staying and very happy with boy‘s former foster mum who runs a dog hotel). Our boy is quite sensitive to noise and would not have coped with walls down, floors up, loads of mess, noise, unfamiliar men ( he’s scared of unfamiliar men) . Hopefully picking them up on the 23rd but feels a long way away.
OH jokingly calls my language re council my Council Tourette’s syndrome. Hate to whinge but really do feel they do nothing to support those in need, we are luckier than many, we can write irritating emails, contact a pro bono disability lawyer via contacts etc navigate systems, what the hell happens to those who don’t have this capacity?
In many ways we have been lucky to have savings ( although the account is looking pretty depleted) have great tradies, but boy does it feel that the Council has no interest in actually supporting ratepayers who do the right thing. Sorry, am exceptionally grumpy tonight and the refuse thing has set me off
mention the council/ waste management etc and my language is deplorable.Plus I haven’t seen my beautiful boy in over two months or met my newly adopted rescue girl ( both staying and very happy with boy‘s former foster mum who runs a dog hotel). Our boy is quite sensitive to noise and would not have coped with walls down, floors up, loads of mess, noise, unfamiliar men ( he’s scared of unfamiliar men) . Hopefully picking them up on the 23rd but feels a long way away.
OH jokingly calls my language re council my Council Tourette’s syndrome. Hate to whinge but really do feel they do nothing to support those in need, we are luckier than many, we can write irritating emails, contact a pro bono disability lawyer via contacts etc navigate systems, what the hell happens to those who don’t have this capacity?
@Moneypenny’sfreedom you have moved mountains, you deserve your "rant". Your and OH's achievements to get this far are tremendous
Darts tourney today. I have lost all 4 of my pool games so far. Was supposed to do as friends with GF, but she’s banned from being in the same room as me now. Head a bit gone
managed to plan something in every night except one until next weekend so I’m not just sat at home feeling crap alone. Nothing earth shattering or social life reinventing, but enough for now
managed to plan something in every night except one until next weekend so I’m not just sat at home feeling crap alone. Nothing earth shattering or social life reinventing, but enough for now
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