Today I did not meet any famous people nor did I witness a bank robbery. There were no car accidents and I didn't have a hospital appointment. No home improvement plans were made and I did not book a holiday abroad. I didn't even go for a walk in the nearby countryside. No long lost friends came a knocking on my door and I didn't read even one page of a book. It was just Monday. Nothing of any significance happened.
However, I erected a seven foot wigwam of bamboo canes and planted several runner bean plants around it. Then I planted a row of cauliflowers. All of these plants were given a generous watering to help them on their way. I also visited our local Tesco superstore where there is a bay for plastic recycling.
Council collections of material for recycling prohibit many plastic items so we gather all of our extra plastic waste in our own bins and about once every six weeks I take this stuff to the recycling bay at Tesco. I have been doing this for the past twenty years. Ominously, there's a sign there now that warns visitors the recycling facilities are set to end.
The sign mistakenly advises that our waste plastic should be picked up by council collection services but whoever wrote that sign had not done his or her homework. It is the same with most British councils. Very few of them encourage the collection of all plastic waste. Most citizens simply put their extra plastic in their general waste bins which in Sheffield we call our "black bins".
When I was a teenager, there was a very competent local rock band who never quite made it into the big time at national or international levels. They were called Nothineverappens and that's how some of our days can be when nothing of any note happens. Just like today.
from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/umRacWH
