The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread XXVI
OLD RED DAMASK
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Lancashire born. In Cebu now
Age: 67
Posts: 368
Good morning all. Stopped raining, when you think things can't gt any worse my roof above the bathroom has sprung a leak. Have to try to get the agent to get someone in tout suite.
God knows when we will get a newbie though. Last time took 8 months!
So Nigel gets 3 jobs to do.
His, that of the person leaving and training the newbie.
Marvellous.
Not much chance of sleeping then.
His, that of the person leaving and training the newbie.
Marvellous.
Not much chance of sleeping then.
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,477
Morning peeps nice clear blue sky here,almost forgot what they look like, dammed Binmen came round at 7.30 this am, they usually do their thing mid afternoon,nobody wil have put their bins out, questions will be asked.
Saying that I remember when everybody would slip the binmen half a crown at Xmas to get themselves a well deserved pint,dont suppose anybody does that now.
Saying that I remember when everybody would slip the binmen half a crown at Xmas to get themselves a well deserved pint,dont suppose anybody does that now.
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Our council people are great with rubbish removal. If you forget to put your wheelie bin out and miss the collection, you can call them and they will send the truck back. Full marks there! I usually put the two wheelies out the night before (as everyone does) and they are collected quite early. We must be very close to the beginning of the run.
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: North Up
Posts: 489
The Bin men came round the other day flogging their 2016 calendar in exchange for a "donation". I expect the firemen and postie to be along any day soon, looking for their handouts!
Bluey
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 354
Fill your boots then Nigel and demand ( no don't ask politely !!! ) a massive pay rise.
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Newcastle/UK
Posts: 1,477
Pay rise? I would demand the right to deflower all the virgins at head office.
Morning peeps, still blowing like a mad thing here and a huge swath of rain lurking over us,still black as a witches tit as well. oh joy.
Morning peeps, still blowing like a mad thing here and a huge swath of rain lurking over us,still black as a witches tit as well. oh joy.
Tsamaya sentle
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Germany
Posts: 154
Good morning all,
foggy here.
We don't even have to put the bins out, they know where they are (not locked) and there are always one or two men 10 minutes ahead of the "convoy" to pull them out into the street, and back afterwards. That's very nice and efficient so nothing to complain.
Don't know how much we have to pay though. Should check our annual council fees, surely not cheap. Payment will be according to garbage weight methinks (automatic scan) but not sure whether our council here has actually introduced this.
foggy here.
We don't even have to put the bins out, they know where they are (not locked) and there are always one or two men 10 minutes ahead of the "convoy" to pull them out into the street, and back afterwards. That's very nice and efficient so nothing to complain.
Don't know how much we have to pay though. Should check our annual council fees, surely not cheap. Payment will be according to garbage weight methinks (automatic scan) but not sure whether our council here has actually introduced this.
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: EGNX country
Age: 65
Posts: 215
Good morning Saturday.
Late up as feeling grotty due to being struck down with man flu.
Nothing that a few cups of tea won't remedy.
As the weather is so awful I'm passing the time researching my late wife's
ancestry. I've just started so have only got to her parents at present.
It appears they hail from Mr D's neck of the wood. At the time of their marriage in 1946 they were both residents of Benwell.
Her father's profession is given as Tea Planter. Didn't know they had tea plantations in Newcastle.
Actually I know he'd gone out to India before the war, joined up at the start of the war, was captured in Singapore and then worked on the Burma railway
prior to being made to work in the mines in Japan.
He witnessed the bomb at Hiroshima going off from afar.
The weather is not to be spoken of.
Late up as feeling grotty due to being struck down with man flu.
Nothing that a few cups of tea won't remedy.
As the weather is so awful I'm passing the time researching my late wife's
ancestry. I've just started so have only got to her parents at present.
It appears they hail from Mr D's neck of the wood. At the time of their marriage in 1946 they were both residents of Benwell.
Her father's profession is given as Tea Planter. Didn't know they had tea plantations in Newcastle.
Actually I know he'd gone out to India before the war, joined up at the start of the war, was captured in Singapore and then worked on the Burma railway
prior to being made to work in the mines in Japan.
He witnessed the bomb at Hiroshima going off from afar.
The weather is not to be spoken of.
Nemo Me Impune Lacessit
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Derbyshire, England.
Posts: 4,076
Our bin men collect every Monday even if a public holiday falls on that Monday.
