My local bus stop

[Bealman]

Fine, thanks, Chris. New grandchild due anytime in Adelaide.

[crewearpley40]

We are all thinking of your daughter, you,Anne. Hope all goes well.

[Train Waiting]

Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.

These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.

Unlike here!  After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts.  And their contents are widely distributed.  No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.

Best wishes.

John

[port perran]

Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.

These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.

Unlike here!  After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts.  And their contents are widely distributed.  No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.

Best wishes.

John

We're still in the dark ages. Black bin bags at the roadside tied at the top for us.
Trouble is, seagulls and foxes like to tear them open.

[weave]

Don't you mean Orks and Goblins   

[Jon898]

Here it's most likely raccoons (the bandit masks kind of give them away):


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeaN-ye0eM

Jon

[grumbeast]

Ha Ha, no.... the UFOs are still buzzing around, but I haven't been abducted yet. 

Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.

Oooh Dear..  Around here you would not have appeased the bin gods!.. you have stuff sticking out the green bin.  We get a nasty letter and they sometimes don't take it if there'S stuff sticking out!

You can tell if you've appeased them if the automatic machine that empties them these days puts them back down vaguely in the same place you left them.  If they are displeased, they tend to fling them half way across the garden!

[keithbythe sea]

Bin night last night.... don't you think we have pretty bins, though.

These bins are very nice indeed and agreeably vertical.

Unlike here!  After a breezy evening and night, there are lots of horizontal bins hereabouts.  And their contents are widely distributed.  No-one seems to have invented a clip lid for wheelie bins.

Best wishes.

John

We're still in the dark ages. Black bin bags at the roadside tied at the top for us.
Trouble is, seagulls and foxes like to tear them open.

Cor blimey, I thought that New Forest District Council were the only place left still using black bags! Same problem here with seagulls.

When I enquired when we would be moving to the 20th century I was told that there was a consultation process in progress. What they have to consult about and when it will end is a complete mystery. 

[Bealman]

Well they'd better speed the consultations up.... we're in the 21st century now! 

[Malc]

I painted the number 12 on my bin. My nextdoor neighbour asked me why, when I live at 24. I said there is a fair chance the bin men will leave it outside my house.

[railsquid]

Here in sunny Japan we do not have such fancy things as "wheelie bins", instead we have a tenth share in a breezeblock-lined alcove outside the front door (as the house is in the middle of the street of 10 houses, ours was slightly cheaper because of this), into which we deposit our appropriately bagged refuse before about 8:24am on the appropriate day ("burnables" on Mondays and Thursdays, plastics and cardboard and Wednesdays, glass and PET bottles on Thursdays), and some time between 8:35 and 9:35am (depending on day and type of collection) the appropriate collection vehicle will come along and take it away for further processing, as appropriate.

[Bealman]

Geez, that's a lot to remember! 

[Trainfish]

Young people like me and Squiddy don't have a problem with poor memories Gary 

[railsquid]

Geez, that's a lot to remember! 

It's easy - there's a notice inside said alcove with all the details. The only tricky one is the non-burnable refuse, which is picked up on the first and third Fridays of each month, but not the fifth, should the month feature five of them.

[Bealman]

Strewth!