Thread:MaggieSN/@comment-44123106-20200209214249/@comment-38946466-20200210014914

As long as furballs are fine, world is in order 😎

Do you know there are tornado warnings for London? I did all my shopping yesterday and planned various household chores for today - guess what got done 🤣 No tornado, there was wind and rain, don't get me wrong, but there wasn't that lovely clanking sound - sort of a bass background to every big storm in this area - you know the bins doing their dance around the street? It could be that the big ones no longer roll around since small ones have gone many moons ago.

Brief explanation: in their infinite wisdom, council has tried various recycling schema and as part of them provided various plastic (!) containers to be used. There were always some weird explanation - like use the brown box for paper but not cardboard, put cardboard in the green one with bottles that are washed but without caps. One of those boxes (not both) had a net. Net was very popular and was often stolen if somebody left their box out for too long. Unexpectedly, winds came and boxes and their nets disappeared thus signalling the end of that recycling schema. The one in use now now is much more straight forward - most of recyclable thingies go to one big bin (polystyrene is not recyclable which I learned when they left my bin unemptied) and there is a tiny (I mean really tiny, smaller than a supermarket bag-for-life or bag-for-next-5-minutes-to-the-car depending on perspective) meant for food waste. That tiny one had a lot of teething troubles - first one being that you shouldn't use a plastic bag for food waste which agreed, is a no brainier, and yet it gets dirty without a bag. Next issue were other London inhabitants - foxes, cats and rats. Some bins left outside lost their teeny tiny covers and had tooth marks. If I was one of those forensic people I might be able to tell you precisely which animal left them based on the size of the marks, however, since I am not, I like to think they were foxes but I have seen some huge rats so idk. The tiny bins that remained have gone with the wind and that marks the end of the food recycling schema around here. Which is not bad considering that bin people were not working (one of those contracting companies went bust) and no bins were taken out for several months. There was a lot of bin related petty crime - fly tipping. Anyhow.

It is nice that you are chatting up intelligent young people and trying to help with their education. You are clearly a glass half-full type of person 🥂. I always wonder when somebody states something with confidence and it is obvious they know nothing about the subject - where does that confidence come from? I mean weather forecast on my phone tells me what is the estimated speed of wind so it is not as if you need to search for the information high and low?

Btw what is a wrong radio station? Do the right ones not have news and weather? If yes, please point me in their direction, I always listen to radio when driving and despite all my efforts I always end up listening to enthusiastic anchor talking about whatever (as I was going home from a bad day at work I listened to some people talking about how wonderful their workplaces were - ha! apparently the best place to work according to ecstatic presenter was some pest control company and there was a phone in from an equally ecstatic worker from somewhere who could - this really happened - take toilet paper home from work and even share it with his family and friends. Suffice to say my opinion about my workplace grew. I mean maybe it was a prank call but he sounded so chipper).

If your bridge remains closed, I hope you have food and reading material, power and everything you might desire! If not, check where is Amazon Prime trialling their new delivery methods 🤣 Sorry, too soon I guess 😳 Seriously though, hope you can work from home. Or at least that the company will not take these days out of your holidays...

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