This Instant And Moment - 2025!

Hagar said:
Green bin price has gone up from £59 to £69 per annum. Our very spendthrift and indebted council just emailed us with the demand
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They just don't bother to turn up half the time. No collection for a month during the summer they were "waiting for parts" for the truck :rolleyes: Still get charged the same.

200sols said:
Build a compost heap.
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Not for wood/prunings you don't. The only other convenient way to dispose of them is to burn them but nope can't do that council will turn up saying theres been a complaint and put it out or else...
 
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Raymond Lin said:
No idea, I didn't even have to do the "call up and pretend I found it cheaper elsewhere" dance on the phone.

Fully comp, legal cover etc.
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You pay................Annually ??


I think mine is around £500-£550

I have one non fault claim (someone rear bumped me) over 4 years ago, that will be coming off after 5 years in 1 months time, i have 0 points and have done for many many many years. I have techincally around 14 years no claims, however, you can only use a max of 9 with insurance companies when signing up.
 
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200sols said:
Who is throwing loads of wood in green bins? :cry:
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Anything up to about an inch and a half. People do have hedges and bushes and we have a tree. My problem is grass clippings which need cardboard or leaves to be composted as well (green and brown).
Our leaves go down as mulch in May to prevent weeds and the birds love chucking them about mainly onto the lawn. We have little space for composting and leave that to the council who are adequately compensated by selling it to landscape and garden contractors.
 
DJMK4 said:
You pay................Annually ??


I think mine is around £500-£550

I have one non fault claim (someone rear bumped me) over 4 years ago, that will be coming off after 5 years in 1 months time, i have 0 points and have done for many many many years. I have techincally around 14 years no claims, however, you can only use a max of 9 with insurance companies when signing up.
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Yes, that's annually. (it says right there at the top :p)

Or I can pay £17.07 a month.
 
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Sorting out the halloween decorations, my plans rather blew up when I took my dad into the range yesterday and he saw an inflatable halloween helicopter half price, so I've just been setting that up outside (I managed to get the extension cables in and under cover* just as it started to tip down).

Still got to put the batteries in about half a dozen decorations, hang them around the inside of the door and assemble two of them and put the big skeleton** up outside with it's dog...

My dad loves seeing the kids faces light up (hopefully not as they get electrocuted) when they knock.
Thankfully I made the halloween bags up a couple of weeks back.



*I had to use a garden tool one that unfortuantely isn't waterproof at the ends (not a massive problem, the plug goes into an outdoor socket out the back, the socket goes inside an empty green bin), and the shorter outdoor extension cable with water resistant box to plug the actual decoration into.

**I was sorely tempted to get it a cheap "labcoat" and toy stethoscope and call it McCoy.
 
6.35 and we’re starting to run out of treats. Looking at the bowl like the ammo counter for the sentry guns in that scene from Aliens. :eek:

Hardly got any trick or treaters last year, and now we’re besieged with them…
 
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The Funktopus said:
6.35 and we’re starting to run out of treats. Looking at the bowl like the ammo counter for the sentry guns in that scene from Aliens. :eek:

Hardly got any trick or treaters last year, and now we’re besieged with them…
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Not a single one here

Should probably caveat that with i live in a rural hamlet.
 
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The Funktopus said:
6.35 and we’re starting to run out of treats. Looking at the bowl like the ammo counter for the sentry guns in that scene from Aliens. :eek:

Hardly got any trick or treaters last year, and now we’re besieged with them…
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We had 50 pre-packed bags with sweets. Gone in an hour or two. Then made up some more, also all gone. Had to do a quick Tesco run for a load more, then the heavens opened and the kids have stopped knocking so I'm sitting on a mountain of sweets.

Ah well, I never liked this heart anyway.
 
The Mrs picked up some sweets yesterday, but we clearly didn't get enough. I was sat on the toilet for 5 mins, but that was also around the same time the Mrs started opening the door to the kids. Came out the toilet and all the sweets were gone :eek:
 
The Funktopus said:
6.35 and we’re starting to run out of treats. Looking at the bowl like the ammo counter for the sentry guns in that scene from Aliens. :eek:

Hardly got any trick or treaters last year, and now we’re besieged with them…
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The last few years we've averaged about 32* by about 8pm, so I made up 40 bags.

We're at 35, and i've made up another 10 bags with slight variations, using up the last of the Haribo! once they're gone that's likely to be it:) (although I do still have some party size fingers of fudge etc left).



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We've had another 8 in the last 20 minutes, but they've really slowed down.


*I keep a tally so I can try and plan for the next year.
 
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No Halloween here, not seriously anyway, if we did take it seriously we'd add a load of extra vowels for the fun of it.

Was curious if I could track down old MSN Messenger contacts tonight for some reason; answer is no.
 
Surprise surprise Evri have managed to lose one of my parcels and doing everything they can to avoid admitting they have... wish I could see what courier some places are using before ordering and/or pay to use someone else.
 
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