The Christmas trees have been taken away.
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@acsimpson - you can check Christmas tree collection days for your street here: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/directory/176/christmas_tree_collections
I don't think they are necessarily the same as brown bin days.
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In our case they do seem be aligned with Brown bin dates. Last year the chopping up of the tree and placing in my Brown Bin worked really well. However we're sharing brown bins with our neighbor now that it's a pay for and we mostly share lawn mowing of our tiny gardens.
Rather unexpectedly, the massive piles of Christmas trees were cleared on the appointed day as well!
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Also on the glass bottle collection, we moved to communal glass bins; but I think their must have been noise complaints so the system reverted back to collection. I sometimes sneak glass bottles into neighbors bins but usually walk them 300m to the nearest communal point.
Which works well, as our food waste bin was destroyed by getting thrown on the ground after collections and several requests for a replacements have not seen any results. But walking food waste 300m a couple of times a week is better than having it fester outside the house, especially in the summer.
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We're in East Lothian. We do most things differently.
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If xmas tree is six feet or more then is supposed to be cut in half.
They do appear to be going on time with the brown bin collection in Edinburgh
On line the earliest date for pick up was 22/12/18
I thought this quite early for xmas? maybe if you love run up to xmas get your tree out and happily smelling the pine and admiring the bushiness etc but then you are going to Dubai on holiday for a fortnight on 21/12/18 and don't want to miss the brown bin pick up?
The wonderful clenny women and men have done a great and thorough job. thanks to them for their stakanovite labours.
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Xmas trees also collected some time ago from our street - not on schedule, but they did go. Our family owns a re-usable tree made from artificial stuff which is disassembled and folded neatly into a box after use to be stored until the next Yuletide season.
"Brown the one you pay for takes garden waste (leaves mainly)"
Does no-one have compost heaps any more? Darn sight cheaper and less faff than brown bins.
"You must have the secret codeword."
Dunno about codeword, but my watchword is quiet persistence. I just report stuff when it becomes a problem, and I try to do so consistently. Waste services folk must be so sick of me by now that they're probably thinking "Oh no, it's him again! Better get a squad round to that street sharpish!"
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BARNTON BLUE CRATE BOOZE WATCH
Last week of dry January
Those crates of blue are still full to the brim with fine wines.. yet in a magnanimous gesture we will chalk this up to Burns Night exuberance. Och aye !
Next week's forecast
While the spoon burners of Muirhouse remain condemned to endless reruns of Dougal and the Blue Cat, the Barnton gravy train will party on
5 % chance of Magnum Brut reduction due to soaring annual golf club fees
Long Term Forecast
The market thrives on sentiment.. will Brexit Uncertainty culminate in significant wine cellar hoarding ? Only time will tell !
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@bax San, excellent update.
Watched Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress with no 1 son recently (the one that George Lucas copied for Star Wars). It is mental.
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vintage kurosawa, that one.. right up there with dersu
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thank you for the laughs, i finally managed to burp and shift the indigestion.
i was reliably informed last week (by twitter) that i'm posh because i don't live in an area with communal bins. which is funny, because i moved from an area with communal bins--the houses were unaffordable.
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Does no-one have compost heaps any more?
i did, until rattie moved in
one day i cornered and killed rattie with a brick
he had just cost me £600 in roof repair
our lives and deaths are now entwined..
his face will be the last i see on my death bed, for sure
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I love when a thread matures under my radar.
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Had Rattie already been detained or does Bax San have very quick reflexes with the bricks?
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I used to play hockey fairly seriously. Couple of confirmed mouse kills with the stick in open play in Marchmont flats.
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i was reliably informed last week (by twitter) that i'm posh because i don't live in an area with communal bins.
Several parts of Stockbridgia & the New Town are communally binned. Twitter is definitely over-reaching there.
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Several parts of Stockbridgia & the New Town are communally binned.
Great idea ;)
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Communal bin-related stirring was rarely out of the pages of the Broughton Spurtle when I lived within earshot of it.
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@jonty thanks for reminding me that I meant to send them a few quid in the spirit of "supporting hyper-local journalism in 2019".
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Had Rattie already been detained or does Bax San have very quick reflexes with the bricks?
long story but i just happened to be in the garden with a full brick in my hand, and suddenly there he was loitering in a corner, having been ousted from his under roof nest earlier in the day, by the roofer who also removed £600 from my wallet for various works
still feel bad about it all, but it felt like him or me at the time
rattie was then duly dispatched to the blue bin
(the general waste coloured bin in the kingdom)
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@iwrats, my old dad once killed a mouse with a stick he took out of the fire. Quickest I ever saw him move apart from the time the wee malkies stole his golf ball. He was six foot three and could build up a head of steam, the wee malkies lightened their load by dropping all the golf balls they had acquired and scarpered petrified.
@bax San, always good to know which bin to put the rodents in. They are not listed in the bin instruction lists which seems an oversight given their prevalence.
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When I have found unfortunate wildlife in the garden I have erred on the side of Garden waste. They should compost fine and they were in the garden.
I hope my blue bin is not being judged. In my defence (your honour) my neighbours don't feel they need to maintain a blue box as "they only have a few bottles a fortnight" and then proceed to fill ours up. I don't begrudge them the space and happily put the shared box out.
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I add the tiny contents of our blue bin to a neighbours to reduce the labour load on the council. It's all about efficiency afterall. Imagine if everyone did that. We'd half the cost of glass collection and potentially make it an actual viable recycling method rather than just a way to stop landfill addition.
As a student we once gassed a mouse into being easily caught by accident when our kitchen in marchmont decided it would deposit gas at a high rate from all the rings. Not sure what was going on. A flatmate had an existential panic about the value of all life (re: Bax above) so put the mouse in a bin with food and a coffee container lid full of water. Unfortunately the mouse fell into the water and somehow drowned.
Lifes a *rule 2*, then you die.
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Are blue bins not sorted kerbside. They contain glass, batteries and small electricals. Not a great mix for sorting later.
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@acsimpson, not sorted kerbside just chucked in is my feeling but maybe the recyclers do look in the box? Mrs Garto is big on the idea of recycling small electrical goods in the blue bin. She does not do bins tho, she just quotes the regulations. I will ask, may be that they are supposed to be placed in the blue bin in some way thT makes them separate? In a poly bag or such. As you ask I will also enquire of the manager of the clennie whom I ken for data on small electricala via blue bin. I prefer a run to the dump with these small electricals. The new dump at sighthill is coming along nicely. There looks like a roof for an indoor dump. What larks we Stigs will be having soon down the back of Napier Uni, Sighthill Campus. If that is what is being built.
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