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| Thread ID: 67018 | 2006-03-14 08:17:00 | Waste Disposal | SKT174 (1319) | PC World Chat |
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| 438014 | 2006-03-16 09:12:00 | I haven't had one in either of the two houses I'ver owned in the last 20 years. My current method involves kitchen scraps going thru the garden shredder in the garage before being deposited in the worm farms outside. They even get all the egg shells, prawn shells and some meat, maybe chicken bones. Otherwise stuff that's likely to go off before rubbish day goes in the freezer till rubbish night. We have finally recieved recycle bins here last week, but have recycled papere, cardboard, glass, plastic, tins for years at the local recycle depot. Now it gets picked up at the gate. The end result is that with 4 people in the house we put out LESS than 1 rubbish bag a week. Sometimes we don't bother and my neighbour lets us deposit what we do have in his wheelie bin. There's usually room amongst all the paper, cardboard, tins and glass that he puts in there.... :( |
EX-WESTY (221) | ||
| 438015 | 2006-03-16 17:49:00 | Worm farms, eh... I've often thought I'd like to try that. What do you keep yours in, Ex-Westy? And how many do you need to buy as a starter? |
Laura (43) | ||
| 438016 | 2006-03-16 18:23:00 | You only need one although I have two. Mine are both of the Can O Worms with is a 3 tier system, bottom catchment tray and then 3 housing trays. Bonus is the "worm wee" that collects in the bottom which is caught then used to water the house plants and garden. The Can O Worms is around $100 at Mitre 10 etc and 1000 worms for a starter will cost about $20. Using the shredder before I place the material in the farm means it breaks down faster and the worms get into it a lot easier, therefore I can put a bit more volume thru. |
EX-WESTY (221) | ||
| 438017 | 2006-03-17 23:54:00 | Oh dear Graham. And you are normally so careful. I think you mean "Gardez L'eau" :cool:Winston, it's the denizens of the tenements who corrupted the French (Oops, no they didn't; the French have always been corrupt: ask Mr Bush.) What they said, for hundreds of years, was "Gardey loo", which was indeed a corruption of the French term. It wasn't eau they were depositing, anyway. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 438018 | 2006-03-18 00:25:00 | I have this theory that initially after 1066 and all that, only the Norman French lived in 2 storey houses, the Saxons were probably confined to their wattle and daub hovels and dutifully touched their forelocks and thanked their masters, even when being eaued upon, remember Baldrick in Black Adder? By 1200 or so, Norman French had become so cunningly changed by the influence of the Saxon peasants and servants, that the mainland French could barely understand their now becoming English Norman cousins, who were being absorbed into the general population. By now the indigenous natives were beginning to re-assert themselves, live in 2 storey houses, and it was fashionable to copy their once masters in their peculiar manners of speech. So it was that 'gardey loo' came into general usage, even amongst the hoi-polloi. Even to this day, particularly in Leicestershire/Nottinghamshire areas, there are these funnyily pronounced Norman French names like 'Beaver Castle', spelt Belvoir Castle. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 438019 | 2006-03-18 00:34:00 | I don't think the Sassenachs ever used this polite warning, did they :D They just tipped . Tenements were up to six stories fairly early in Glasgow and Edinburgh . Would you carry a barrel, or even a bucket, down six stories to tip it into the kennel . It would get there quicker by using Mr Newton's clever invention . 1066 was just England . Scotland kept its own independence for a while after that . The Scots were closer to the French, because they "supported" the king "over the water" and made promises (which they didn't keep) about providing money and troops to support restoration . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 438020 | 2006-03-18 01:27:00 | The Scots were closer to the French, because they "supported" the king "over the water" and made promises (which they didn't keep) about providing money and troops to support restoration. Yes the treacherous frog munching nostril sucking bast**ds - they didn't give a tinkers cuss for the struggling Scots. Alas poor Bonnie Prince Charlie. :( |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 438021 | 2006-03-18 03:23:00 | Alas poor Bonnie Prince Charlie. :( That drunken Italian - not so bonnie. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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