Bins & Eggs (light hearted)

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.

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

That’s a good one ???

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

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?

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

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

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

Bins-how exciting.
Grey bin all general stuff alternate weeks, early morning.
On the alternate week we have separate bins; green for garden waste, collected mid morning, no collection in December and a £40pa charge, which you can share with a neighbour if you like. Red top bin for metal/plastic and yellow top card/paper (with some exclusions) collected very early morning.
We used to have a food bin, but they stopped that, so now veg waste goes in green bin and other food waste in the grey bin.

Eggs? As long as the white is fully cooked I love them in all forms.

Yawn

Well normally a discussion about bins and eggs would leave me cold, but so very much more fascinating than anything H&M related.
First of all eggs, don’t like them, hate the smell of them, it even lingers in the dishwasher.
Bins. Well wheelie bin, going soon to a three week collection, actually I can’t be bothered to go on, what’s to say? It all gets collected, unless we are informed they have Covid related staff shortages, and aren’t coming. Cases are fairly low here now, so seems unfortunate that so many recycling centre employees have it.
Well after all this excitement, I’m off to calm down.

Food waste caddy weekly
Garden waste weekly
Black sacks (all non recycling) alternate week
Glass box, cardboard (tied up) recyclable plastic, cans etc in pink sack alternate week to black sack.

Cannot help with the egg problem as I love them however they are cooked, although my favourite is soft poached on whole meal toast.

How many people have a wheelie bin cleaner?
Our neighbours do, but we bag all our rubbish so the bin doesn’t get really grubby, and the recycling is clean anyway. Are we just dirty people not to bother with this?
Waiting to be judged!

I like eggs but they don't like me.?
They make me chuck-up!

Bin men have arrived as I type, how's that for timing.
Wheelie bin cleaner will arrive shortly.
What a packed morning ?

'Morning all
Just quickly bobbing on to say thank you for all of your thoughtful, incisive and enlightening posts.
I've only scanned through quickly - but they look great, lots of insight into household bin management.
I look forward to reading them later properly.

A big thank you for the recipes, I really like the sound of the aubergine cheese cake. I'll give them the attention they deserve in due course

I've got to talk to the GP this am; the dog is going to the groomers' for the first time in goodness knows; andI've got an Ocado delivery. And then the cherry on the cake - it's Wheelie Klean (sic) day! (They didn't turn up last month, so I shall be watching them like a hawk).

So I really have got a jam-packed and thrilling day!
Have a good day everyone

Looks like still hold the title for the one thing I didn’t want to win.

Grandmajet just seen your post - you beat me to it ?

Egg problem solved: Easter Eggs ?

Bins: waste: black bin.
Green Recyling bin: Paper, except for shredded paper, card, certain plastic bottles but not the lids.
Not the plastic bags the supermarkets used to take.
Tina & cans but not aluminium foil. No black food trays. ?
Brown bin: Garden waste, but no peelings ? & twigs only.r
Glass has to go in the car to a recycling bin (try to sneak out with the wine bottles)

Wish DD would stop moving house - She's local but each move the rules have been different - within a 5 mile radius!

It was a family joke that my mother didn’t like ‘eggy’ eggs.
She was never quite able to say what constituted too much egginess, but it was probably darker than usual yolks.