Susan goes to England

Friday, August 20, 2010

Foxes

I was initially quite delighted at the fox in the garden.

Not so much this morning when the fox had dismembered a couple of pigeons and scattered a million feathers and various body parts over the lawn.

Had to pick them all up (must buy some marigolds)

But where to throw them away? In theory, it should have all gone in the food caddy, but that seemed too yukky.

So I just thought 'fuck it' and put the whole mess in a plastic bag and put it in the landfill dustbin.

And the fox poo as well. Dear lord it stinks!

This fox thing is not working out so well.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

And speaking of deliveries, I am quite charmed by the delivery people here. If they come into the house, they either take their shoes off and leave them at the door, or they produce shoe covers and slip them on. How cool is that?

If they unpack something for you, they pick up every shred of paper and teeny piece of polystyrene.

The poms could teach the Saffas a thing or two.

Tesco online

Just as I thought I was so good at my online grocery shopping.....

Today my first order in the wee housie arrived.

2 tomatoes. Just 2. Small ones

Toy Story Carlton Towel. Looks really dof let me tell you, Woody and Buzz and the gang in a grown up house

Worst of all...SIXTEEN yogurts

4 packs of 4.

When I ordered it, I ordered 'red fruit yogurt' That's all I like, strawberry, rasperry, youngberry.

But Oh Boy! I could never have imagined the 'other' red fruits

Prune. Fig. Rhubarb. Cranberry.

The delivery chap arrived promptly at 9, said " Good Morning, there is poo in your driveway, don't worry I didn't step in it"

Lovely.

Course I will have to pick it up, carry it upstairs and flush it because there is no bin for dog poo recycling.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

recycling se gat

I am fed up with this recycling lark.

Who knew that the brown (outside) (as opposed to the smaller brown inside caddy) had a lockable lid? Looks like a handle to me. The reason it has a lockable lid is so the foxes can't strew your rotting leftovers all over the pavement on rubbish day.

Learnt that one the hard way!

And when you pick all the gunk up (the week old strawberries were particularly disgusting) you can only put the food back in the caddy, not the 10 meters of carlton towel you used to scoop it up with. (I have no marigolds...translation: yellow rubber gloves)

So then...what to do with the yukky carlton towel? It can't go in the paper recycling (green) container, because that doesn't have a lid. (foxes)

It shouldn't go in the landfill, because it is recyclable. Anyway, I still have so much landfill stuff (medium sized black bin, to be transferred to large wheelie bin) and that bin is only collected every 2 weeks.

I am hoping this will stop being a problem when I stop buying new stuff for the house that comes draped in polystyrene and plastic.

And just to add to my joy, I now have TWO green bins so that I can put bottles, plastic and tins (washed) in one and paper (have to shred the fecking stuff with personal details on) in the other.

I WILL NEVER EVER EVER VOTE FOR THE GREEN PARTY.

And , worse, I have to get a kitchen dustbin in which to throw stuff to be sorted later (by hand, by me...The Hubby is still freaked out by the whole thing) because when it is raining you can't be going into the alley every 5 minutes to throw something away because then the kitchen floor gets filthy.

And if the mop really gets dirty and I have to throw it away...where will I throw it? What is it? Will the wood bit will have to be sawn into little pieces to fit in the brown caddy with food and flower clippings? The metal bit will be landfill..the mop end is textile so it goes in the 2nd green bin with the paper...do you see my issues here?

Bloody hell.