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  1. minus six
    Member

    So some council tax bands in Edinburgh, they get jar and bottle glass collection in dinky blue crates, don't they?

    Well Barton put out their regular glass collection yesterday.. and every single box for miles was chocka full to the brim with fine wines and champagne bottles..

    Here we are deep into Dry January.. yet the posh hooses are still caning it big time, nightly, like its 1999..

    Maybe they know something we don't.. my bet is on impending occult catastrophe.. a dark lovecraftian twist in the fabric of space-time itself.. the Old Ones are set to return.. the Elder Things will wreak havoc from their threshold high on the seven hills..

    And so they are drinking to forget the shape of things to come

    Posted 5 years ago #

  2. crowriver
    Member

    Much more mundane than that I suspect. Just dinner parties, bax.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    My blue crate in the garage is empty. I think recycling was taken early January. Cycling home Monday night the Lanark road and Lanark road west had many full blue crates. I think maybe folk just missed the early collection.

    Had some white wine and a rum in total this year

    Posted 5 years ago #

  4. minus six
    Member

    My blue crate in the garage is empty

    that's an illuminati code phrase.. you can't fool me gembo-san

    Posted 5 years ago #

  5. gembo
    Member

    @bax San. Maybe yes, maybe no. I like the Viz secret code - My arse is sixty kilograms brown

    Also I can imagine Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile sing the line

    The blue crate in the garage is empty

    Posted 5 years ago #

  6. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Yawn

    A lot of places had their first 'normal' collection for weeks this week

    Collections that fell on Xmas or NY holidays were rescheduled, brought forward by virtually a week (the council printed flyers which still required one to go online and manually look up one's address - am only surprised they weren't printed in invisible ink as well), to so mega organisation was required to have anything collected since mid Dec

    Plus all the houses round the corner from me were still missed earlier this week as per usual

    Posted 5 years ago #

  7. chdot
    Admin

    “Here we are deep into Dry January”

    But perhaps first collection since Christmas.

    Street collection collapsed in much of Edinburgh.

    “

    Apologies to all those currently experiencing waste issues. I’m extremely unhappy w/ current service levels. Problems should have been fixed by now & I’m v. disappointed that it is not the case. I’ve issued clear instructions to council officers & expect to see fast improvements.

    “

    https://twitter.com/lmacinnessnp/status/1085229111654731779

    Posted 5 years ago #

  8. minus six
    Member

    imagine Paul Buchanan of The Blue Nile sing the line

    you're right enough, aye !

    there's a red car in the fountain..
    the blue crate in the garage is empty..

    Posted 5 years ago #

  9. gembo
    Member

    The line of traffic comes to a standstill

    Posted 5 years ago #

  10. minus six
    Member

    Plus all the houses round the corner from me were still missed earlier this week as per usual

    providing us with a perfect opportunity for bin-raking

    we need to find out what they are really up to !

    a post-brexit bin-shaming inquisition

    could catch on

    Posted 5 years ago #

  11. unhurt
    Member

    Communal recyling bins round here have also not been emptied much - they were overflowing on Xmas Eve, so by Boxing Day things had gone a bit apocalyptic (apparently no-one except me has ever walked 40 whole metres to the recycling and, on finding it full, taken their stuff back inside with them - or so I deduce).

    Posted 5 years ago #

  12. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Is it January already? My crate is brown.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  13. unhurt
    Member

    My crate is brown.

    you should see someone about that.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats, wait a minute 60 kilograms brown? If so by using my enigma machine I think 3pm Sunday you et Madame for the afternoon tea?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  15. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    @unhurt

    Blown, not brown. Fat finger.

    @gembo

    Pourquoi pas? On s'installe dans la sitooterie? (I just decided that 'sitooterie' is feminine. Someone has to. And. I. Just. Did.)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  16. unhurt
    Member

    Blown, not brown. Fat finger.

    Both of those sound even more serious than brown crate.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  17. crowriver
    Member

    To be fair the bins collection has had a few issues, but is mostly fine. We had some hiccups with overflowing communal packaging recycling bins over the festive season which is mostly to be expected, but they are emptied regularly.

    I report issues via the council web site and they are mostly sorted pretty quickly.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  18. minus six
    Member

    so you're all in on this blue crate bizness, then ?

    there's something PKD scanner darkly about it all

    the colour codes are all different over in the kingdom

    eg. fife grey bin is for paper and cardboard, as is only righteous and proper.. but you're putting all sorts of unholy mess in yours

    only the brown crate remains constant across this firth divide

    Posted 5 years ago #

  19. chdot
    Admin

    “I report issues via the council web site and they are mostly sorted pretty quickly.”

    You must have the secret codeword.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  20. unhurt
    Member

    @bax There ought to be a European standard for recyling bin colour coding.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  21. chdot
    Admin

    Probably is (UK exempt...)

    Posted 5 years ago #

  22. minus six
    Member

    @unhurt admittedly paper and cardboard used to be the blue bin in the kingdom.. but no wasn't it always grey.. we have always been at war with oceania !

    Posted 5 years ago #

  23. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    We're still waiting for the Christmas tree pickup. I don't know if Mrs Mollie misread the missive or they cancelled the collection but I put the tree in the gutter two weeks ago. Our neighbor complained a day later that it might brush against his car so I stuffed it, at his suggestion, behind my other neighbour's railing (our's has a hedge). That neighbour took against that and the tree ended up back in the gutter for a few days where it was moved about by drivers attempting to park in front of our non car owning house. We were loathe to bring it back into the house because of the amount of needle fall we'd dealt with getting it out in the first place. Eventually Mrs M and the neighbour worked out a compromise, the tree is back behind their railing out of the way so they can park outside our house.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  24. minus six
    Member

    drivers attempting to park in front of our non car owning house

    in my extensive experience only violence could bring respect

    its sad, but its true, and a terrible price to pay for uneasy abeyance

    Posted 5 years ago #

  25. gembo
    Member

    @iwrats why not indeed. We can be installed in the sitooterie avec les blankets

    @bax, some of the rebels in Juni green use a red box for their bottles. Their blue boxes have blown away pout-etre? Red was ford cardboard but was replaced by Green recycling bin which takes plastic, aluminium and cardboard now. Tends to be my go to bin. Brown the one you pay for takes garden waste (leaves mainly) grey bin takes everything else.

    @cyclingmollie, Mrs Mollie does bins? Or is it negotiations with neighbour's and then back to you for your side of the chores divide?

    Posted 5 years ago #

  26. cb
    Member

    Both our Christmas and New year collections were rescheduled but the info we got through the door had the rescheduled times - no need to look anything up online.

    As for the tree. It got chopped up with secateurs and the pieces passed through the lounge window directly into the brown bin.

    This of course is The Most Sensible way and everyone should be doing it.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  27. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    chopped up with secateurs and the pieces passed through the lounge window directly into the brown bin

    Good scene for a tartan noir novel there.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  28. paulmilne
    Member

    @gembo "Red was ford cardboard" - I know car manufacuters are all jumping on the green bandwagon but I didn't know it had gone this far.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  29. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    @gembo, I usually put the bins out at Mrs M's behest. We're not the only ones caught out. The street has many Christmas trees stuck behind railings.

    Posted 5 years ago #

  30. acsimpson
    Member

    Kingdom and Edinburgh brown bins only have colour in common. The kingdom ones appear to be slightly superior with airholes down the side to allow the garden matter to breath while festering in the bin.

    Our Christmas Tree sits by a window which is large enough to accommodate throwing the tree directly out. I shall put it out with this weeks brown bin collection and hope it is taken whole. Failing that I will cut it up and put it into the next set of brown bins.

    Posted 5 years ago #

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