3 April (Part 4) - Inconvenience or death. You choose
Wittering on here for the past ten years has attracted all sorts of emails on
all sorts of subjects. Today’s are all about bins or Covid-19 and the two are
not unrelated. I somehow produce very little rubbish and garden waste excepted I
wouldn’t much care if the collection intervals were halved. Right now recycling intervals have been
temporarily halved and some people are seriously inconvenienced by it.
Today Bexley’s revised and
occasionally chaotic schedule should have seen my
brown, green and white lidded bins emptied. The brown garden waste was collected
in the morning and the plastic etc. in the white bin went late this afternoon.
Nothing in the white lidded bin was mine. My green bin is still unemptied. I am
beginning to lose count but if it doesn’t go today I think it will enter the
fifth week of neglect. Fortunately it contained only a tiny bag of Cellophane packets
and greasy kitchen roll but neighbours have filled it near to the brim.
Some people are already more than a little annoyed about the lack of collections
and I hope they do not suffer the same problem seen in my road today.
Having checked by text with a few neighbours Bexley Council appears to have
picked up white lidded bins at even numbered houses only.
The other emails are far more worrying, the CV is striking very close to home
with reports of middle aged healthy people laid very low and older ones in a
very serious condition indeed. I know I broke the rules today by
delivering
vital supplies to a lady who suffers nine different underlying health
conditions but part of me wishes I had not done it.
Nevertheless I urge you to bloody well not go out, people I know distantly are at death’s door.
Tomorrow is forecast to be a fine day. I can walk to the edge of Lesnes Abbey Park without using any public road. If I see it
filled with merry makers
tomorrow I think I might wander up to the boundary with a very long lens and take a few snaps.