Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[art600]

I know that wasps are good for the garden, but they are definitely not wanted in mine - stung 6 times today when i must have inadvertently disturbed a nest - I did not stop to investigate further.

Luckily I am not allergic to their stings or you would be one Forumist fewer.

[Maggi Young]

That was very nasty for you Arthur.... did you take an anti-histamine to help with the stings. Useful even if you are not badly allergic, I believe, to reduce pain and I think it helps ensure that further stings do not generate a more serious reaction. 

[Lesley Cox]

For the first time in many, many years he could see properly!
In some months the other eye is due for a lens removal.

This must be very reassuring to other road users.

[Maggi Young]

For the first time in many, many years he could see properly!
In some months the other eye is due for a lens removal.

This must be very reassuring to other road users.

 Dear me, I hadn't thought of that.... it is really funny.... since I'm not in Norway!
 Terribly funny, i suppose 

[fermi de Sousa]

My Moan at the moment is rather trivial but due to some computer incompatibility I can't see many pics or even avatars on the SRGC Forum - no problems with NARGS though
As it's a work computer I can hardly ask the IT staff to work out "why" when I shouldn't be on a Forum anyway during work hours! (It's currently after hours here!).
An exception was the magnificient cake from Erika for Maggi's birthday - just as well as I wouldn't have known what to make of Maggi's comment otherwise!
Even pics I post aren't available to me to see on the Forum so I hope they are posted the right way up!
cheers
fermi

[Lesley Cox]

They've looked OK to me Fermi, but then I'm in the same half as you are.

[Maggi Young]

It must be due to a setting for downloads, fermi.  Rest assured we can see your pix just fine.
Glad you did manage to see Erika's fabulous cake....  
Hope you could NOT see the chocolate constructions sent by Johnw.... if you cannot see them I'm sure I'm not obliged to share..... 

[mark smyth]

On Monday I ordered a compost bin from my local council. I went to their reception and paid for it. The depot is a mile / 1.5km from my house. Quote from the Australian receptionist - not that it matters

Receptionist "Delivery time will be two weeks"
Me "I'll collect it myself"
Receptionist "The public are not allowed on the site"
Me "I'll collect it at the gate"
Receptionist "They aren't allowed to carry heavy items"
Me "drive it to the gate"
Receptionist "They are out doing deliveries"

I gave up

[angie]

Mark when I called my local authorities about our bin for rubbish I told them I have to lift my bin into my car as I live up a dirt track road which is a fair distance from the main road and I really think we shouldn't be doing this, health and safety
Her reply was can you not tie it onto your car and pull it down the road. I said yes we could tie it to our towbar but l think you would be replacing the wheels very frequently to our bin. Her reply was oh we won't do that the bin is your responsibility. Can't wait to see what happens in another few years when we can't lift the bin into the car. Why are they never helpful.

Angie 

[art600]

Angie

Couldn't you leave the bin by the main road and take the rubbish to it daily 

Eliminates the heavy lifting and is good exercise.

[angie]

Angie

Couldn't you leave the bin by the main road and take the rubbish to it daily 

Eliminates the heavy lifting and is good exercise.

Yes that would be the perfect answer but they will not allow it. This is because there are five of us. But I am the only one that is a long way away.  Two years ago we got one of those big bins like you see in the town but they took it away saying the grass verge wasn't wide enough and the bin was protruding to much onto the road. What I normally do is just take my bags to the depot. I did say what happens if I hurt my back with the bin, she just shrugged her shoulders. Maybe in a few years when I am to old they might do something about it. Maybe I could get a discount in my community tax 

Angie

[jandals]

We also live at the end of a track and it is a one kilometre return journey with our wheelie bin each week . It is taken there attached to the towball of the car and a bungy cord is attached around the lid to keep it closed . We have been doing this for 8 years now and altough there have been incidents of arriving on site without the previously attached wheelie bin , we are still using the original wheels . Roughly 400km the bin has travelled
I am too scared to tell the council these facts because of....

"Wait a minute , 400 km . He needs plates on that wheelie bin "
"Is it safe . It will need a Certificate of Fitness "
"Has he got a class WB on his drivers licence'
"Unless he puts lights on it , he can only tow it during daylight hours"
"What weight restrictions are there on a wheelie bin under tow"
"What do you mean there aren't any . MAKE SOME!!!"

[angie]

Brilliant that 
My husband bored a hole in the lid and side of bin and fixes his bungy cord to keep the lid fixed.

I wonder how long our wheels would last for.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

I ordered a (small, I think 80 litre) rubbish bin about 3 months ago from the same people who contract to collect the DCC's rubbish collection. The bin per week costs less that the 65 litre thin black plastic rubbish bag we otherwise have to use and have to buy from the supermarket. I paid for it, put it in the car and went home. No problems. I had it filled in 15 mins. The rubbish bag has many retrictions about what can be put in it (we also have paper, can and glass recycling bins and use these weekly/) but the new bin will take anything. I've already cleaned out the potting shed and I can put garden stuff in it if I want to.

When I lived in Timaru, the council provided 50 free rubbish bags per household, one a week on the presumption that everyone went away on holiday for two weeks. Here, the rubbish bag the same size costs about $2.80 per bag and they'll only collect the bags with the council's designated logo so you can't even go for a cheaper option. My new bin per week costs about $1.95.

[Lesley Cox]

"That didn't have anything in it, did it?" said Roger. "I've just wiped out the dust so I can put some paper clips in it."

Oh b....y h..l. Yes it DID, It was the seed of Rhodo hanceanum nanum, to be packeted for the seed lists and I was going to sow some as well.

"Well there was no label in it." I'll kill him!