Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.

littleme

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Cue said:
It’ll be real awkward if your partner even dies of suspicious circumstances in the bath now
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Before covid my partner rarely cooked, I did everything, typical family... During covid he was furloughed, & I worked (a lot of ) extra hours to cover other isolating/furloughed colleagues...he taught himself to cook & took over all cooking & household duties... It was a godsend to me....I even forgot how to cook a propper roast dinner & how to turn the oven on...🤣🤣🤣 We've carried this on past covid as we are shift workers & can work at different times & it's great for us. It meant that my daughter & myself were taken care of when I ended up seriously ill & in hospital in the middle of covid (like @staffordjas now) otherwise they would have lived on sandwiches & take away.
 
staffordjas

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Long shot I know , But putting this out there just incase anyone spots any missing posts or recognises this little one who's hitched a ride on a transport lorry enroute from West Midlands to Warrington (driver stopped in several locations )............

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This sweet girl has been found in the back of a transport lorry that came from the west Midlands and travelled to Warrington, cheshire. She is not microchipped unfortunately. Please share in hope we can get her back home. Please contact orford lane vets on 01925-634881
 
littleme

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staffordjas said:
Long shot I know , But putting this out there just incase anyone spots any missing posts or recognises this little one who's hitched a ride on a transport lorry enroute from West Midlands to Warrington (driver stopped in several locations )............

View attachment 15197This sweet girl has been found in the back of a transport lorry that came from the west Midlands and travelled to Warrington, cheshire. She is not microchipped unfortunately. Please share in hope we can get her back home. Please contact orford lane vets on 01925-634881
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The carer has been working in Warrington just lately, I'll show him...
 
Glam

Glam

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Not really mundane at all. Have just got home, to find youngest had popped Sainsbugs and got a load of Oatcakes. Reckoned he didn't know how do them, so had waited for me drag my weary body home.
Very nice they were n all.
 
staffordjas

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Glam said:
Not really mundane at all. Have just got home, to find youngest had popped Sainsbugs and got a load of Oatcakes. Reckoned he didn't know how do them, so had waited for me drag my weary body home.
Very nice they were n all.
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Going to have to have a trip up norf once I can drive again , visit Trentham Monkey Forest & Cannock Chase and stock up on oatcakes to freeze! Miss them so much .
 
Cue

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Carole said:
I’d already put the recycling bin out when I realised that I’d got 2 long thin cardboard boxes (about 4 feet long x 8” wide”.
I heard the bin men (sorry, refuse collecting recycling operatives) in the road so I went out with my cardboard boxes in hand.
Me “Can I just give you these please” I thought he’d just take them and throw them in the lorry.

”Bin man “No, sorry we can’t take them”

Me assessing the situation very quickly “but you’ll take them if they’re in the blue bag?”.

Bin man nods his head.

So 4 bin men stand and watch a lady of a certain age (me) squash down the boxes, put them in the blue bag, stand on bag to squash down enough so that the bag will close.
They then proceed to take blue bag and throw the contents in the lorry.

”Sorry” he says again “daft innit?

I decided to be nice, theyd caught me on a good day so I said “Well, you don’t make the rules“

What I actually wanted to say was “Well, I know that you have rules but it wouldn’t have taken you 2 seconds to just throw them in, saying “we’re not meant to do this really but I won’t tell if you won’t”.

Anyway, he then tells me that the system isn’t working, it’s costing too much money, it’s taking too long to do the rounds, the cardboard bags are too heavy to lift and so in 2025 it’s going back to the way it was before, ie, no blue bags.
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So the jobsworths were apparently out in force for the bin round today. Two of our neighbours had put their bags in the bins due to the weather (as they’re a horrendous idea in general and rain makes it worse) and were left with full bins and “we didn’t take your bin because the bag was in the bin” tags on the handles.

I guess having it strewn across the street is the better option?
 
proactive

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Cue said:
So the jobsworths were apparently out in force for the bin round today. Two of our neighbours had put their bags in the bins due to the weather (as they’re a horrendous idea in general and rain makes it worse) and were left with full bins and “we didn’t take your bin because the bag was in the bin” tags on the handles.

I guess having it strewn across the street is the better option?
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It's the bosses that make the pretty rules on these lucrative government contracts, not the guys on the trucks.

It ought to be reasonably easy to find out where the biffa bosses offices are, ditto with the executives of SBC, in order to dump the stuff outside their premises to make a point, if anyone were minded to do so.
 
Noah

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Funny, I thought our recycling collections were by Biffa and the guys on the trucks seem to prefer the bags in the bins because it keeps them dry.
 
Theresa Green

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Bin collections

That’s it !

The most important General Election in 50 years will be decided by how well the bins are emptied in the next weeks

Simples
 
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