Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:04 am  

My youngest daughter lives like an animal or at least her room resembles more of a nest. Is there any chance the council will take her away?

I do hope so, although I doubt it. I once asked them to take an old fridge away and they said if I left it outside on the pavement someone would come and collect it. After 3 weeks I had to take it to the tip myself.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 9:41 am  

Fat Boy wrote:

I do hope so, although I doubt it. I once asked them to take an old fridge away and they said if I left it outside on the pavement someone would come and collect it. After 3 weeks I had to take it to the tip myself.

I once rang them to take a washing machine away, they booked me in for a collection 3 weeks away so we left it around the back until the day of collection then put it out the front, ten minutes later it had gone so I rang them to thank them (I'm nice like that), they told me that their vans hadn't left the depot yet and if it had gone should they cancel my call.

The scrap fairies round here hoist anything within nanoseconds of you putting it out.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:18 am  

JerryChicken wrote:

The scrap fairies round here hoist anything within nanoseconds of you putting it out.

What a fantastic service they provide too. I had a new motorised satellite system installed last year and ended up with the old 1m sized dish which required disposing of. I placed the dish outside the gate at the front of the house and it was gone within an hour

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:30 pm  

In Spain they have large communal bins in the street which are emptied efficiently every night. If you wish to dispose of any old item that is not allowed to go in the bin then you leave it next to the bin and the Spanish equivalent of the old rag n' bone men collect 2 or 3 times a day. Locally know as bin divers they patrol in various sized vans and provide a valuable recycling service and earn some sort of a living.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 3:47 pm  

JerryChicken wrote:

The scrap fairies round here hoist anything within nanoseconds of you putting it out.

I was clearing out my gran's house after she passed away, she had an old 70's style metal stairlift. We'd put it out in the front garden and went out just for 15 mins to borrow a van from a friend in order to take it away, when we got back it had gone.

I've actually seen the scrap fairies. In order to fit in with us humans they take the form of rather rough looking fellows driving old vans. The ones I saw were actually following a house clearance van.

For some reason I didn't think it a good idea to approach them and accuse them of being fairies.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Fri Apr 18, 2014 7:36 pm  

Juan Cornetto wrote:

In Spain they have large communal bins in the street which are emptied efficiently every night. If you wish to dispose of any old item that is not allowed to go in the bin then you leave it next to the bin and the Spanish equivalent of the old rag n' bone men collect 2 or 3 times a day. Locally know as bin divers they patrol in various sized vans and provide a valuable recycling service and earn some sort of a living.

Daily bin collections???? Pfft....fortnightly ones are the way forward

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:32 am  

William Eve wrote:

What a fantastic service they provide too. I had a new motorised satellite system installed last year and ended up with the old 1m sized dish which required disposing of. I placed the dish outside the gate at the front of the house and it was gone within an hour

They nicked your gate?
The swine.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:53 pm  

FarsleySteve wrote:

Daily bin collections???? Pfft....fortnightly ones are the way forward

They come round every couple of weeks and pressure wash them too.

While in the UK we waste money on each property have its own fleet of multi coloured bins. At the last count I have 5 (One brown one, one green one, (and one with a bit of sh***on) one blue one, one purple one blue box. I mean really!

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:19 pm  

Folk in the UK moan about having to separate out their recycling & also about having to put their bins out on the street, imagine the uproar if they had to traipse out to a communal bin away from their own homes.
Most folk seem incapable of finding litter bins judging by the amount of waste on the roadside.
Other than third world countries we must be the the most litter strewn nation in the world.

Re: OT: LCC 2 pets rule : Sun Apr 20, 2014 2:27 pm  

Old Feller wrote:

Folk in the UK moan about having to separate out their recycling & also about having to put their bins out on the street, imagine the uproar if they had to traipse out to a communal bin away from their own homes.
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Surely one of the benefits of being a former dictatorship ... Anyone moaning about bin collections and having to use the communal bin at the end of the street under the Generalisimo, would have found themselves being brought back in to line / disappearing very quickly afterwards.

The other legacy is that you have a public service that mean the tourists all go "Bloody 'ell, they're doing the bins here at 3am" or for waking up said tourists in the middle of the night with all the clanging etc.