Sometimes, there are advantages to walking your dog early on a Saturday morning. This morning was a prime example. Saturdays in London always seem to get off to a slow start. The traffic is probably the quietest it is all week as most people seem to have a lie in and a relaxed start to the weekend.
The necessity to walk our puppy after it's breakfast led me out on a lovely quiet Saturday morning. We had a nice walk around our local park, which is just down the road and then sauntered back home. On reaching the corner to turn into our street we spotted it. The community skip. It had miraculously appeared hours earlier and even more miraculously it was still virtually empty. So, I promptly hot footed it home to tell my partner, so we could get rid of lots of junk currently cluttering up our house and garden.
As I've mentioned in a previous post, our borough has no public amentity tip, and as a consequence, the council have to take away all rubbish, otherwise it tends to get dumped in the streets surreptitiously in the dark hours of the night. To be honest they do a pretty good job considering. An added bonus of this system to encourage people to get rid of rubbish responsibly is that periodically, I think it is every few months or so, the council place a skip in certain locations, (the top of our street being one, fortunately), so that residents can dispose of any items they can't put in their refuse bags. As we had quite a few things left over from the clearing of my daughter's old room, an old rug eaten by moths and hamsters, a broken lawn mower and various other bits and pieces that we need to get rid of, it was an ideal opportunity to take advantage of this useful service.
An hour later and all said things have now been placed in the community skip. Our load is feeling suitably lightened and we can now relax and enjoy our weekend.
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