Bunch of Clowns!

[Feed The Goat]

I have been challenged about a couple of sacks of grass cuttings because I arrived in a van. They started asking whether I have a waste transfer licence.

 

[Gramaisc]

The application of the current rules can vary widely, in both directions.

I sometimes wonder if it may depend upon who else is on site at the time and whether repercussions for leniency might ensue.

 

[cotty1974]

Im sure there is an A to Z of Stafford Laybys....isn't there a new layby by the new riverside shopping centre.....mmmm

 

[John Marwood]

Im sure there is an A to Z of Stafford Laybys....isn't there a new layby by the new riverside shopping centre.....mmmm

I read that as ladyboys

 

[cotty1974]

in fact there isn't there a new Layby the the new riverside shopping centre.....mmmmmm

I read that as ladyboys

Meanwhile a spokesman for "PANDORA" was heard to say " We really have messed up,I thought you meant Stratford not Stafford....its a bit late now"

 

[Gramaisc]

Im sure there is an A to Z of Stafford Laybys....isn't there a new layby by the new riverside shopping centre.....mmmm

I read that as ladyboys

The data sets overlap to quite a large degree.



I'm told.

 

[Trumpet]

When I have visited the tip with household waste in a sign written van, I have been asked what I am disposing off.

Some years ago I turned up in our very garishly (is that the right spelling?) sign written van in racing team colours, sponsors logos etc. So obviously not a gardening contractor, with the remains of a garden shed and a load of garden rubbish. I was refused entry but told that if I parked outside the compound, I could carry my rubbish in and dispose of it. Madness!

 

[Steve_b]

It's made the ITV news at 6

 

[alphagamma]

That's happened to me twice

Each time I've said, "The dead bodies of Cabinet Ministers,"and each time I've been waved through

How could you tell they were dead?

 

[proactive]

How could you tell they were dead?

They weren't lying?

 

[jacs]

My parents have just had a letter from their local council (Gwynedd) saying from Jan 1st they'll. e charging £33 a year to empty their brown bin (garden waste).

No doubt this'll be the next step for Stafford as the letter states it's part of a new nationwide policy.

 

[Steve_b]

My parents have just had a letter from their local council (Gwynedd) saying from Jan 1st they'll. e charging £33 a year to empty their brown bin (garden waste).

No doubt this'll be the next step for Stafford as the letter states it's part of a new nationwide policy.

Return of the Garden bonfires!

 

[Gramaisc]

My parents have just had a letter from their local council (Gwynedd) saying from Jan 1st they'll. e charging £33 a year to empty their brown bin (garden waste).

No doubt this'll be the next step for Stafford as the letter states it's part of a new nationwide policy.

What are they doing with the bins of those who do not elect to pay (again) for the future collections?

Are they just abandoning them or collecting them for recycling, perhaps?

I suspect the 'nationwide policy' they refer to is the general one of reducing local spending rather than a specific "charge for garden waste collection" policy.

There seems to be no legal obligation to collect garden waste - unless it is fly-tipped in a public area.

 

[Lucy]

They must make some money back on selling off the compost they create with it...

 

[Gramaisc]

They must make some money back on selling off the compost they create with it...

I'm sure that I remember being told that our scheme ran an operating profit in the early days.

 

[Perrier]

its all part of the gov plan of paying less for public services , however they negate to tell you that there wont be any services left to pay for but they will still take your money .

...next time be careful who you vote for

 

[Steve_b]

 

[staffordjas]

My parents have just had a letter from their local council (Gwynedd) saying from Jan 1st they'll. e charging £33 a year to empty their brown bin (garden waste).

No doubt this'll be the next step for Stafford as the letter states it's part of a new nationwide policy.

They charge in Worcester as well if you want a garden waste bin. I asked sons neighbours where I was supposed to put the long nettles coming over the fence that I'd chopped off....Answer "You'll have to pay for a bin, or drive to the tip with them for free" (Sod that, it's other peoples gardens overflowing into his pebbled one... they went in the household waste bin that time! )

 

[Gramaisc]

If they are rooted nextdoor, then they belong to them. You can prune what is above 'your' side, but the debris is their property and should be returned.

Decisions of this nature (charging for services already provided) are ultimately political in nature, rather than the financial imperatives that people will be led to believe (if they do). We are up to our arses in money that can be scattered virtually endlessly at Trident, HS2 &3, indemnifying Nissan against any post-Brexit costs, guaranteeing to maintain farm subsidies at EU levels, bombing random people around the world after we've encouraged them to start civil wars, ad infinitum...

...but, stopping to empty a pensioner's bin, when we're driving past to empty the one at the next house anyway, is the straw that would break the economic camel's back, apparently...

 

[staffordjas]

If they are rooted nextdoor, then they belong to them. You can prune what is above 'your' side, but the debris is their property and should be returned.

Good point, next time I visit with my secateurs I shall return them to their front gardens. Give the old gits something else to moan about to the students landlord !
(These are monster prickly nettles coming over the 20 foot or so high hedges, down onto the floor and across sons garden.Tried to lob them back over and failed ...now I realise what the point of javelin was in those games lessons )