Smooth Hound
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got myself a garden benchtook some rubbish to the skip today and came back with a proper wooden garden/park bench  
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Julie
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Yeah, go Steptoe 
I used to curl up with embarrassment when we came home from Portsoy tip with as much as we had gone with. One day we got there and they had posted a notice on the gates stating that it was an offence to remove or rearrange the contents of the tip.
I had fun with that one for ages, I can tell you.
Plenty of jokes about my OCD and tidying up the skip so it looked more orderly 
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Smooth Hound
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ive always wanted a garden bench, but its not the sort of thing i would ever buy
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wildgarlic
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Good for you SH.
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Smooth Hound
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ive just discovered that it turns itself into a picnic table and benches  well when i say it turns itself into one, i mean it can be turned into one by a person
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Julie
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Makes you wonder why people throw stuff like that away doesn't it?
Sometimes I think that if we all had a bit less we would have to be greener as a matter of necessity.
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Smooth Hound
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i agree, theres only one small problem with it is , is a small break near the bottom of one of the legs, easily repaired, and it is desperate for a paint job, im thinking of painting it a nice bright colour with like folk painting on it, thatll brighten the garden up.
there was bikes that looked in perfect condition on there, furniture, a bath that would have made a great water trough in a field.
its maddness really 
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Sassinak
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How did you manage to get it away?
I have found that they guard the rubbuish really closely and you can't remove anything.
It is so frustrating when you can see something useful and can't take it away
I'm afraid I'm a desperate skip groveller lol
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Julie
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Learn to use your feminine charms Sass, it gets you a long way (sneaky again you see :oops:)
The nice man at the tip offered to open the top of the newspaper bin for me. When it proved that I couldn't reach the papers he turned it on it's side so I could get as many as I wanted.
I wonder if I was wearing a low cut top when I crawled inside.......only just thought of that, I could've been Might have made an old man very happy.
There's a good tip for you as well
I got a free bag of pig food the same week because I was chatty with the bloke in the stores. It had a wee hole in it so he threw it in my car boot.
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Forget-me-Not
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Tips recyclingEdited at posters request 
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Smooth Hound
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| Julie wrote: | Learn to use your feminine charms Sass, it gets you a long way (sneaky again you see :oops:)
The nice man at the tip offered to open the top of the newspaper bin for me. When it proved that I couldn't reach the papers he turned it on it's side so I could get as many as I wanted.
I wonder if I was wearing a low cut top when I crawled inside.......only just thought of that, I could've been Might have made an old man very happy.
There's a good tip for you as well
I got a free bag of pig food the same week because I was chatty with the bloke in the stores. It had a wee hole in it so he threw it in my car boot. |
and if your a bloke just be matey
some of them are jobs worths, but if you go regularly and just be matey with them like i do hope none of them are reading this
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Smooth Hound
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mind you they wont know who i am
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Julie
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Well everyone responds well to friendliness - unless they're a real miserable so and so - don't they.
It shouldn't matter if folk remove stuff really, it is less for the council to dispose of. What's the betting it has something to do with health and safety because so many people get litigious nowadays.
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Sassinak
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Down at the Bridge of Don site, they have a man with a large white van sat there who quickly removes anything potentially valuable !!
I don't know if he possibly pays for "salvage" rights or if he just a man who knows the right people ?
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Julie
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I bet there's some decent stuff there as well, there's a lot of oil money on that side of the city.......intriguing
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Smooth Hound
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probably better stuff than the suff ive got
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