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[ladymuck]

Happy Birthday TPD and all who sail in her!

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Blue sky poking through the mix of wispy and fluffy cloud. Currently 15 degrees and that's the high for the day. Cloud cover set to increase as the day progresses with the chance of showers also increasing. Barometer continues upwards to 1012 mBar.

Sunrise 07:00; Sunset 16:29 GMT

Feeling uninspired this morning. Will have to see what the day brings.

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

[NickFitz]

I did remember to put the bins out (recycling, food waste) yesterday so I'm off to a good start.

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

[NickFitz]

Lunch: ham toasties

These were made with the loaf that baked as I slept, which seems to have turned out very well

[ladymuck]

Our council's introducing food waste bins next year. I'm curious to know how that's going to work for somewhere like this. We have a whole bunch of communal black (general waste) and orange (recycling) bins, and the bin paddock is only just big enough to contain them. I suppose fewer black bins will be needed, but I wonder how getting food waste from around fifty flats into one or more bins is going to be managed?

Then there's the additional complication of the management company collecting from our flat doors three mornings a week. I doubt the overall hygiene of the place will be enhanced by people leaving food waste in the hallways overnight!

If the idea is that each flat has its own food waste bin, then I feel sorry for whoever has to take them all out for bin day then bring them all back again. Or will we be expected to each take and retrieve our own? The pavement isn't really wide enough to have fifty or so bins stacked on it, not even quite small ones. And there'll always be someone who claims that their "better" bin has been taken by a jealous neighbour and an inferior bin left in its place, even if they're all identical

It's a difficult one for large blocks of flats. My place is just a house converted into two flats so it's not onerous to have two small bins. When I lived in RBKC, the council would only collect food waste from houses.

Glasgow used to do food waste collections from all property types but they stopped them because too many people were contaminating the bins with non-food waste. I should ask HWMBO was the collection arrangement was.