leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Where do you think it is opening?
Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2014
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Where do you think it is opening?
I'm guessing but is it the market toilets on Popes Road?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
That's ace. Want! What's it called?Ahhhh. Yep. I use one of these.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
My neighbour would go ballistic! We only have one smallish bag of rubbish these days, and a shed load of recycling.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Bloody hell. Lambeth wrote to me advising that I was due a council tax refund but that I would need to request it from them before it would be returned. So I wrote to them by email requesting it. Almost two weeks later they have written to me asking for proof of payment.
That is superb!
Love it.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Atomic.
I stumbled across one in a granny's kitchen in Sydney and was instantly hooked. It's a 50s model but Bon Trading revived them in Australia and now there is a company making or supplying them over here. I got mine second hand on ebay three or four years ago but prices have gone up quite a lot as there seem to be some weirdos who have started to collect them. It was a little tricky to get the coffee right at first but now I can't start a day without it!
Watch out for fakes (the nipple on the front is usually longer - but I think they work ok).
snowy_again
Slush
Watch out for fakes (the nipple on the front is usually longer - but I think they work ok).
Story of my life.
Story of my life.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
shakespearegirl
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When we lived in LJ the
We put stuff in our neighbours bin all the time. Their bin was massively overloaded the other day after they'd had a party and I told her to fill ours up as they would empty hers if it wouldn't close. She was somewhat shocked at my suggestion until i fessed up that if our bin was full I always put stuff in theirs.
We do share a side returny thing though and the bins sit next to each other.
Got a very cross email from one of the residents of our street this week, complaining that all the bins had blown down to her end of the cul de sac and were sitting outside her house and could the owners please come and collect them..
We put stuff in our neighbours bin all the time. Their bin was massively overloaded the other day after they'd had a party and I told her to fill ours up as they would empty hers if it wouldn't close. She was somewhat shocked at my suggestion until i fessed up that if our bin was full I always put stuff in theirs.
We do share a side returny thing though and the bins sit next to each other.
Got a very cross email from one of the residents of our street this week, complaining that all the bins had blown down to her end of the cul de sac and were sitting outside her house and could the owners please come and collect them..
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Easy to spot the student-sharer houses - by the lack of attention to all-important bin matters.
shakespearegirl
just worked out taglines
Its not the bins that bother me, its their friends smoking in the side returny bit and leaving buts everywhere rather than going into the back garden..
Manter
Lunch Mob
I have the bog standard stuff- hostas, begonias etc that'll split. But some of the nicer stuff will need to be cuttings- pulmonarias, bergenias, a couple of different skimmias. I have a white vinca which does really well, and a Japanese thing whose name escapes me- compact, evergreen, white flowers in spring.
Manter
Lunch Mob
But your neighbour's named her bin or something batty hasn't she?
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Bloody hell. Lambeth wrote to me advising that I was due a council tax refund but that I would need to request it from them before it would be returned. So I wrote to them by email requesting it. Almost two weeks later they have written to me asking for proof of payment.
Manter
Lunch Mob
It's the novel Kafka forgot to write...Bloody hell. Lambeth wrote to me advising that I was due a council tax refund but that I would need to request it from them before it would be returned. So I wrote to them by email requesting it. Almost two weeks later they have written to me asking for proof of payment.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
Knotweed?
Manter
Lunch Mob
I hope notKnotweed?
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
I hope not
an Acer? We have an Acer and it's my favourite plant in the whole garden - I just love it. I am the least green fingered person in the world but I do love that plant.
Manter
Lunch Mob
I have a red acer, but no, it's something else. Really bugging me now...
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
She has it sanitised by a special company every few weeks. Years ago she went mad at Hendo because he accidentally put a small plastic bag of rubbish in her bin! She did apologise later and we get on well now but I wouldn't mess with her. She is a stickler for discipline and manners but also quite cool. Has a lot of wigs and is very sanguine if we have a party.
I do actually think it's a bit off to put your rubbish in other people's bins without asking. I was annoyed when a load of builder's rubbish appeared in our bin a while back.
When I decided to do up our garden, I realised that a previous owner had used the garden as a rubbish dump. There was all sorts down there; masonry, bottles, cables, even a box of Gilette razor blades.
While I'll concede that the garden belonged to the fly tipper at the time, it pissed me off no end.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
at least you've dug it now
No, I just got seven tonnes of soil and a borrowed wheelbarrow and topped it up. Seven tonnes doesn't go that far but getting it up that alleyway was pain. Two loads, three tonnes then four.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
Now the penny has dropped; dominatrix innit.
Thimble Queen
Called away to another place
Disappointed by my breakfast in the phoenix this morning. Smaller portions and more expensive. New cafe is well clinical looking too. Unhappy tiems.
story
Changing the facts
Really?
So if someone once in a while, because their own bin was full, put a tied black bin liner into your half-empty wheelie bin on bin-night you'd be annoyed?I wouldn't. I have to say I don't put that much personal value on the empty space inside my wheelie bin.
I'm not using space that you need. I'm not interfering with your own black bin bags in any way. In fact, so low-impact is my action that you wouldn't know about it unless I ring on your doorbell at 10 o'clock at night to say "I'm so sorry to disturb you, but I wonder if you'd mind if I put my bin-bag into your wheelie bin, since mine is full, and the bin men won't empty my bin at all if the lid isn't completely shut."
In what way is it a bit off, miss T ? /Genuine question.
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