Coronavirus :dontpanic:

I fling most of mine on the lawn and run my lawnmower over it then just leave it there.

I'd burn most of mine for fertilizer but I'm in the process of clearing out two sheds and so lot of it is weedy scraggily bits of soil, plastic, rotted mdf, metal, tins and jars of weird organic matter etc.

Fangirl Three wrote:We have been notified that recycling collection is to resume on a monthly basis.

Monthly!? And there I was being mildly miffed at the recycling reduced to a fortnight. Yeesh.

Ours is usually fortnightly.

I thin our green bin collection is once a month but I've never used it, as it costs £50 a year.

I never use the garden waste collection service because the bin men don't put the special white bags back in your front garden properly, and they blow away and the council want you to pay for new bags.

That's why I bought the shredder.

I pay a management fee and they deal with it all. 

Except for my terrace, which I have to do myself, but is small enough that I can just discreetly throw any excess over the side. A pair of nail scissors, a cloth and furniture polish, and a tumbler are the only tools I need.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Where I live is completely surrounded by woodland. People just dump their garden waste in the woods. I'm never sure if that's legal or not, so I don't do it.

Just don't put dump grass clippings anywhere near horses - chopped grass clippings if eaten by a horse become poisonous and can kill them.

I understand there are many cases of such happenings where people's gardens back onto fields and they simply toss the clippings over the fence, which then get eaten by the horse.

Fangirl Three wrote:Ours is usually fortnightly.

Our recycling is fortnightly too and interchanges with the seasonal fortnightly green bin.

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I thin our green bin collection is once a month but I've never used it, as it costs £50 a year.

There is no charge for our green bins.

But another address I used to frequent about 20 miles away was charged a yearly fee, which didn't get paid.

Butterfield wrote:

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:Where I live is completely surrounded by woodland. People just dump their garden waste in the woods. I'm never sure if that's legal or not, so I don't do it.

Just don't put dump grass clippings anywhere near horses - chopped grass clippings if eaten by a horse become poisonous and can kill them.

I understand there are many cases of such happenings where people's gardens back onto fields and they simply toss the clippings over the fence, which then get eaten by the horse.

There are no horses in our local woods.

We have green boxes which are for bottles and cans. Before the plague they were collected with the actual rubbish and the garden waste one week, and the other recycling in the other week.

Green box week is called Blue Week and other recycling week Green Week. Every time I think about that I get annoyed at how counter-intuitive it is.

There are no horses in our local woods

That you know of

What an absolutely glorious day out there. I've just returned from my daily constitutional/shop visit, where I was served by a lovely woman who darlinged and sweethearted her way through our exchange. We wished each other great health on parting.

With everything being so empty, I've made an effort to slow my regular walking pace from New York to the Cotswolds. I was just coming back into my street when a young man very loudly gargled and gobbed onto the pavement. I couldn't help myself shouting in loud exclaim from behind my surgical mask, "you absolute f*cking pig, how dare you do that in my vicinity". He looked suitably taken aback so I saw no need to slow my pace any further.

I don't know that an exit strategy should be discussed right now. With all the grim numbers yet to be gathered from nursing homes, and hundreds a day still dying besides that I think it's premature. I say this despite the trepidation I have for the beginning of my own sons teen years, which is not an age to be isolated at home with a clinically depressed mother.

'Over the worst' remarks made in the United States also seem insensitive when this hasn't yet gone through the developing world. Tens of millions of lives only saved through HIV medicines have yet to be exposed, which might prove to be a horrifying turn that every country will have to help fight.

I read somewhere that the DRC has just three ventilators in the entire country. Etc. That may have been in the NYT report about Mossad stealing thousands of ventilators and other supplies from around the world last month. Clearly, any exit strategy that could be advanced right now would just be speculative nonsense with no evidence base. 

It would surely also have to leave out massive sectors like banking, insurance, transport, and distribution? Any one of which alone could pull the global economy down if the brake was released just for the sake of being seen to have a 'strategy'. That's besides less 'essential' but no less vulnerable sectors like entertainment.

Maybe the terrifying truth is, there just isn't a strategy. Nobody has a clue. Nobody will be able to form one either now that international organizations are being defunded for point scoring. I'd have thought this sodding virus was ample proof that hiding things behind borders with no inter-agency cooperation is a really dangerous idea.

I tend to agree.

I think it's a bit of an OG from Starmer.

I get what he's saying, but it smacks of p*******l opportunism at the moment.

You doing that P*lotic*s thing again!

Yeah.

Sorry.

That was Nightjar, not me. As a great lady once nearly word for word said - my post was humanitarian, not political.

HOTW can have a little P******s, as a treat.

Not to darken the mood but I just got news my mum, a careworker, seems to have come down with some rather alarming symptoms. Locally the bug is definitely going around the care-homes and residences and there's been a number of confirmed deaths and lots of people off sick. She's not still at work before anyone asks, so that's one thing I guess.

My older sister is also a social worker/care worker but for children and teens and lives in the same household, so they're all having to isolate. They've not been given any real guidance and certainly no protection at work.

Don't really know what to think or feel right now, partly because there's not much I can do; just told my little sister to keep an eye on her and not really think about it until or unless things get worse.

Oh dear. I hope everything works out OK.

Same ha.


Thank thee gods for the interwebs at least!