Bins & Eggs (light hearted)

So, here is one from outside the UK, a country in central Europe, living in a large city, in a flat, as most people do here. Bins round the back, emptied twice a week. Recycling bins on just about every corner, separate for plastics, paper, glass, tetrapacks, cans/tins. Some, though not so many, for used small electrical appliances, batteries, lightbulbs. Also for old clothes. We also have a separate bin for garden/organic refuse, collected every two weeks. I have no problem with eggs, any old way, love runny yolks

Love eggs but they give me migraine
Don't know why as they never used to

Bins..........yuck

I should add, that we also have special bins (though they are few and far between) for used cooking oil. You are supposed to decant your used oil (which I do, with the aid of a little funnel thing) into a plastic bottle and then deposit in a special bin. What do you do with your cooking oil in the UK?

Where’s ya bin?
I ‘avent bin anywhere.
No silly, where’s ya wheelie bin?
Honestly I weally avent bin anywhere.

LauraNorder

Where’s ya bin?
I ‘avent bin anywhere.
No silly, where’s ya wheelie bin?
Honestly I weally avent bin anywhere.

That’s a good one ???

Nice archive piece in the paper by Katherine Whitehorn about the joys of living alone. Extract:

To sit in the only comfortable chair in the only cosy spot by the fire, and let your legs be “all over the place” without collisions and apologies. To have the Sunday paper first, and all the time. Not to have to deprecate the existence of your own relations twice a day and exalt the horn of your in-laws. To have your meals “out” just to see if eggs are tedious hen-fruit everywhere as they are at home.

Whole article here:

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/mar/05/the-joys-of-living-alone-archive-1931

LauraNorder

Where’s ya bin?
I ‘avent bin anywhere.
No silly, where’s ya wheelie bin?
Honestly I weally avent bin anywhere.

???

Off the top of me 'head
I bin roamin' in the wind

I've always loved Katharine Whitehorn - not least because of her feature on being a slut. I used to turn to her column before reading anything else in the Observer. However lonely I sometimes feel, I share her feelings on the joys of living alone.

Do people really have wheelie bin cleaners???? I give ours a quick spray once a year with the hosepipe but that's all.

Yes, there’s a van appears in our street within an hour of the bin collection. A fair number of neighbours do use the service. Not sure what is the going rate. When he knocked my door a few years ago looking for customers it was £2 a week.

I swill mine out with a bucket of hot water and bleach. I’m thinking today after bin emtying I might use flash floor cleaner as I like the smell. But that might be too much excitement in one day.

Eggs - love them. I eat one soft boiled with lunch as apparently the 'take up' of nutrients will be bettered by its presence. I've been racking my brains for a recipe which is not too eggy but can only think of omelettes.

Bins - we've a recycling wheely bin for paper, cardboard, egg boxes! and plastic. A garden waste bin is paid for by subscription. All fill up with rainwater when it's very wet.

For glass we have lime green bags which hold a prodigious amount. A waste if you only have the odd jam jar or sauce bottle every few months. You must be careful if it's windy as the emptied bag blows away. As we're on a bus route we joke that the bag was last seen getting on a bus to Derby.

Last time strong winds blew it to t'other side of the shared driveway and left bottles lying about which had to be rescued. My neighbour lets me put my bottles in her bag now or I take them to the skip at the supermarket. AIBU to request a reduction in the rates for doing the council's job for them? Ha ha. Sorry that was a bit long.

We pay £25 a year for bins. We have a green one for garden waste, a black one for household. A black box for cardboard, paper, glass and plastic, and a caddy for food waste. The bins are collected on alternate weeks, except for a green bin break midwinter, the others are collected weekly, it seems to work quite well. We have separate bins in the kitchen so things are preserved before they go outdoors.

I like eggs, despite being badly scratched on the nose by a chicken. I was aged about 2 and picked it up to kiss it,

We have a green bin for garden waste, a blue recycling bin for plastic, tins and bottles (we have quite a lot of those, but they are purely medicinal of course ..) a green box for newspapers, a grey bin for "ordinary" waste and a small brown container with a lid and handle for food waste. Fortnightly collections split into grey bin/food waste one week, and garden/recycling/newspapers/food waste the next.

Eggs? We love them - soft-boiled with toast soldiers, poached, fried, scrambled, you name it and we'll eat it.