Can we go on like this?

Tegan - both benefit from it, it's just that some benefit a lot more than others. Sadly, it is the way our economy is structured and there is little we can do about it unless we go back to bartering.

I do agree with Eloethan in that economies (not just ours) do need a radical rethink as it does tend only to really benefit those at the top (nothing new there!) whilst providing an adequate income for those further down the 'pecking order'.

It's too late, we're all doomed.

Doomed I tell you

Don't tell them your name Pike.

I don't know why, NanKate, but I thought that was one of the funniest lines on tv I've ever heard - and I don't even like Dad's Army!

The Scrap Iron men go round my DD"s neighbour and they live in Bournville!

Love to hear them sing out --very evocative !

I agree Hollydaze.

Also Morecambe and Wise with Andre Previn (or Preview as he was called).

'I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order'

Yes, I loved that line too Holly - and the Andre Preview sketch is my absolute favourite.

Eloethan it shows how good the humour was then because we remember the words and actions so well.

I can watch or listen to Hancocks Half Hour and I remember the script in places word for word.

Oh yes NanKate and Eloethan - the Morecambe & Wise sketch with Andre Previn is an absolute classic I had to go and watch it again and I read the following comment:

At a concert in Britain afterwards, Previn had to stop the playing of the Grieg Concerto to allow the audience time to stop giggling as they remembered the sketch

Watch this YouTube cartoon - 'Man' by Steve Cutts. Really hits home.

m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=WfGMYdalClU

Brilliant - but horrifying - cartoon.

Yes I think it can and will carry on.

I used to think that we would be overrun by landfill. But the sites are scattered around.
And when you look at areas from the air, is it something like 90% of Britain is still green fields.

[I am presuming it is all right to have a look round the gransnet site at old threads?]

Our rubbish / recyclates collecting lorries have adverts on the side to say that recycling saves the council money and so keeps the council tax down. That's the kind of incentive that might influence people.

Most charity shops have stopped accepting electrical goods but in our area we have an organisation called Restart. It takes electrical goods that are still working, as well as furniture of all kinds. It employs people, many of them with disabilities and / or long-term unemployed, to refurbish the items and they are then sold at reasonable prices in their shop. Win-win all round, I'd say.

Our rubbish / recyclates collecting lorries have adverts on the side to say that recycling saves the council money and so keeps the council tax down. That's the kind of incentive that might influence people.

True.

Most charity shops have stopped accepting electrical goods but in our area we have an organisation called Restart. It takes electrical goods that are still working, as well as furniture of all kinds. It employs people, many of them with disabilities and / or long-term unemployed, to refurbish the items and they are then sold at reasonable prices in their shop. Win-win all round, I'd say

Brilliant.