29 January (Part 1) - Elsewhere it’s business as usual
While
the boys play cops and robbers life elsewhere in Bexley goes on as normal, which for some
people means clearing up after the louts, as they were described to me, who take
delight in redistributing household rubbish and the recycling bins themselves. They mean the Serco
bin men, not
youths misbehaving in an attempt to attract Council funding.
Good or bad bin men is a matter of luck, the littering isn’t a regular occurrence in my road but
it happens occasionally.
Here there may be a different problem. You will not be surprised to know
that I have done nothing in the garden for the past six weeks so the lack of a
Christmas collection wasn’t a problem. I had nothing in the garden waste bin on
15th January either but I thought I should make some attempt to get some value from
my (discounted) £33 by trimming a few shrubs yesterday.
When
I grabbed the bin I found it to be heavy and not empty as it should have
been. Worse is that it was nearly half full of lumps of wood and earth contaminated
with a great deal of plastic and polystyrene take-away food trays which I had to remove.
There are no passers-by, it being a
cul-de-sac, and most properties are flats
with no gardens. There are only five houses with gardens and four have paid for
garden waste bins. The exception never does any gardening except that I cut his
lawn occasionally.
So there’s no easy answer. I will have to consider keeping my bin in the back garden which will be a
nuisance.