The Night Mail

[BR60103]

We had an interesting situation here. Someone was picking up the dog stuff in little blue bags and then leaving it under the pine trees. There was a comment on the Village website from the grounds crew.

 

[polybear]

8 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

More news from Llangollen courtesy of Rail Advent 3 locks are up for sale Austin 1, a Hudswell Clarke and a pannier tank. The Trust are hoping that they are still kept there

 

 

 

I wonder how much they'll have to pay to get someone to take a GW loco away?

 

8 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

but tomorrow is to be spent skiing. (Oh dear) I’ve only skied once before, so it should be amusing for passers-by. 

 

 

 

 

Skiing could be pretty tricky, based on that photo....still, it should be pretty amusing for passers-by......

 

6 hours ago, Happy Hippo said:

That is an extremely fine double hunter.

 

All you need now is a suitable waistcoat and chain to really show it off.  Although they do go quite well if you have a pair of decent trousers with a proper watch pocket and a chain that attaches to your belt.

 

And a bowler hat....

 

4 hours ago, BR60103 said:

We had an interesting situation here. Someone was picking up the dog stuff in little blue bags and then leaving it under the pine trees. There was a comment on the Village website from the grounds crew.

 

 

On a footpath near where my boss used to live they were hanging the little blue bags on tree branches - the place was littered in 'em, apparently....

Delightful.

[Dave Hunt]

The stupidity of people who put dog dirt (which even though it is messy and offensive will, at least, eventually rot and disappear) into plastic bags that will most definitely not rot and disappear but then rather than removing them, hang them on a tree defeats me. But then there are those who wear face masks as chin straps or don't even bother wearing them at all. And as for those who park cars on the footpath and block pedestrians' way.......

 

And after that little rant I'll get on with the day that sees my Dad reach the end of his 98th year.

 

Stay safe and well everyone.

 

Dave

[Happy Hippo]

Pass on my best wishes to your father.

 

But best not to mention the rugby!

[simontaylor484]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

The stupidity of people who put dog dirt (which even though it is messy and offensive will, at least, eventually rot and disappear) into plastic bags that will most definitely not rot and disappear but then rather than removing them, hang them on a tree defeats me. But then there are those who wear face masks as chin straps or don't even bother wearing them at all. And as for those who park cars on the footpath and block pedestrians' way.......

 

And after that little rant I'll get on with the day that sees my Dad reach the end of his 98th year.

 

Stay safe and well everyone.

 

 

A similar thing used to confuse me when litter picking the number of times you would have to pick up dog muck (using litter pickers of course) that someone had bagged up then dropped instead of putting in a bin. 

Oh and by the way a bin full of shog dit is remarkably heavy 

[Oldddudders]

Sherry's flat is opposite a lovely green, on which dogs are much-exercised. There is a red bin for dog poo, and a green bin 20 yards away for rubbish. The number of people who put their bag of dog poo in the green bin is enormous. Every morning a little man turns up in a council pickup and empties and re-lines both bins. Splendid service. When I caught him and gave him a Christmas box one year he looked utterly shocked. 

[Compound2632]

10 hours ago, Tony_S said:

photo from Wikipeda. Usual licensing. 

 

I've long fancied an octagonal tower, with French windows onto the lawn at ground level, library and model railway on the floors above.

[New Haven Neil]

I know nothing about timepieces, but that looks very nice indeed, Douglas.

 

As for shog dit, I can't decide of that or parking on the pavement (sidewalk for Douglas!) annoys me most. 

 

There's a bloke around the corner from us, runs 'Beach Buddies' a charity that organises volunteer beach cleans - he's getting famous, it is good work - parks his branded pickup and his Audi all 4 wheels, (or near enough to this day), on the pavement.  Local police are running campaign about not parking on pavements.....Four police officers (one a DCI) in this street, nothing done or said as he is all but a saint to locals.  Makes me mad, when I was in a wheelchair after that foot injury (it was no weight bearing whatsoever for 12 weeks) for 3 months it was a struggle to get around there.  Git.

 

[PhilJ W]

I live in the end house in my street. Between my house and the corner is some council owned shrubbery. A few years ago during a spell of hot weather the shrubbery stank of shog dit where people had thrown the plastic bags into the bushes. There used to be a bin opposite the shrubbery but someone complained and got it removed. It has since been reinstated, the person who complained has since moved away.

[Happy Hippo]

30 minutes ago, Oldddudders said:

Sherry's flat is opposite a lovely green, on which dogs are much-exercised. There is a red bin for dog poo, and a green bin 20 yards away for rubbish. The number of people who put their bag of dog poo in the green bin is enormous. Every morning a little man turns up in a council pickup and empties and re-lines both bins. Splendid service. When I caught him and gave him a Christmas box one year he looked utterly shocked. 

What was the box full of?

[Winslow Boy]

Having spent my professional career- other careers are available, looking after parks and open spaces I can tell you without any question that dogs and their ablutions is the number one complaint that I had to deal with. Whether it was the lack of bins (red or green), the siting of them, the emptying (nothing nicer than carrying a full bag several yards in blazing hot weather) to out of control dogs, dogs in play areas/tennis courts, it not being  cleared. You name it I've dealt with it. Incidentally the reason there are two types of bin , red or green is because originally the sh.t was classed as hazardous waste and had to be incinerated. As a result it had to kept separate from ordinary waste. So my advice is two fold. Firstly when you see someone emptying a bin in a park go and thank them because it is literally a 'sh.t' job because if they didn't do it you would be ankle deep in the stuff very quickly. And secondly reinstate dog licences and charge people £1000 because that's the only way you'll get them to take serious just what they are required to do in having a dog.

 

Rant over- I did say it was the bane of my life didn't I.

[Happy Hippo]

1 minute ago, Winslow Boy said:

Having spent my professional career- other careers are available, looking after parks and open spaces I can tell you without any question that dogs and their ablutions is the number one complaint that I had to deal with. Whether it was the lack of bins (red or green), the siting of them, the emptying (nothing nicer than carrying a full bag several yards in blazing hot weather) to out of control dogs, dogs in play areas/tennis courts, it not being  cleared. You name it I've dealt with it. Incidentally the reason there are two types of bin , red or green is because originally the sh.t was classed as hazardous waste and had to be incinerated. As a result it had to kept separate from ordinary waste. So my advice is two fold. Firstly when you see someone emptying a bin in a park go and thank them because it is literally a 'sh.t' job because if they didn't do it you would be ankle deep in the stuff very quickly. And secondly reinstate dog licences and charge people £1000 because that's the only way you'll get them to take serious just what they are required to do in having a dog.

 

Rant over- I did say it was the bane of my life didn't I.

You have my sympathy on that as my son and daughter both got a summer job with the local authority.

 

They had to do a waste survey, so every day they would recieve sample rubbish bags to sift through and record the contents.  Each set of  sample bags coming from within a different postcode within the borough.

 

It was to see how people actually dealt with their waste and whether it was being disposed of correctly.

 

The answer was no, and it was not pleasant work.

 

As you can imagine they spent a lot of time wearing strengthened gloves, face protection , boots and overalls.

 

Estates run by the local authority were particularly bad at failing to use the correct bins for waste. (Despite Telford having one of the best rubbish and recycling regimes in the country with plenty of bins supplied for the various grades of waste).

 

As you can imagine the clinical waste and sharps were the most difficult to deal with, especially when it had just been put in with 'normal' household waste.

 

Still, it gave them pocket money, although I thing the majority of it was spent on soap, shampoo and body sprays.

[jamie92208]

There was a small area of grass oppositevour house in Gildersome. Our kids and srvrral others who lived next to the area, used to play on there, we could all watch them. Every day a lady , I usecthe word loosely, in her 70's used to bring her poodle to make deposits.  One day I politely asked her  not to do this and pointed to the kids playng. I got a mothful of 4 letter words in a rant as a reply.  I managed to keep my temper but she was appallingly arrogant and abusive.  Not pleasant. 

 

Jamie

[Winslow Boy]

Just now, jamie92208 said:

There was a small area of grass oppositevour house in Gildersome. Our kids and srvrral others who lived next to the area, used to play on there, we could all watch them. Every day a lady , I usecthe word loosely, in her 70's used to bring her poodle to make deposits.  One day I politely asked her  not to do this and pointed to the kids playng. I got a mothful of 4 letter words in a rant as a reply.  I managed to keep my temper but she was appallingly arrogant and abusive.  Not pleasant. 

 

Jamie

Been there and got the t-shirt.

 

It was usually the elderly dog owners that were the worst as they could see no reason why they should change the habit of a life time.

 

[Happy Hippo]

We're still battling the COVID-19 and the next thing is here already.  Virologists have identified a new Nile virus - type C.  It appears to target those who were born between 1940 & 1970.

Symptoms:

1.       Causes you to send the same message twice.

2.       Causes you to send a blank message.

3.       Causes you to send a message to the wrong person.

4.       Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you.

5.       Causes you to forget to attach the attachment.

6.       Causes you to hit SEND before you've finished.

7.       Causes you to hit DELETE instead of SEND.

8.       Causes you to SEND when you should DELETE.

It is called the C-NILE virus!

And if you cannot admit to doing the above, you have obviously caught the mutated strain — the D-NILE virus.

[Dave Hunt]

In answer to your email above, HH, I have to say that, er, er....

 

Oh, never mind.

 

Dave

[Winslow Boy]

17 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

We're still battling the COVID-19 and the next thing is here already.  Virologists have identified a new Nile virus - type C.  It appears to target those who were born between 1940 & 1970.

Symptoms:

1.       Causes you to send the same message twice.

2.       Causes you to send a blank message.

3.       Causes you to send a message to the wrong person.

4.       Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you.

5.       Causes you to forget to attach the attachment.

6.       Causes you to hit SEND before you've finished.

7.       Causes you to hit DELETE instead of SEND.

8.       Causes you to SEND when you should DELETE.

It is called the C-NILE virus!

And if you cannot admit to doing the above, you have obviously caught the mutated strain — the D-NILE virus.

Is that what causes the D-NILE of service then.

[polybear]

2 hours ago, simontaylor484 said:

A similar thing used to confuse me when litter picking the number of times you would have to pick up dog muck (using litter pickers of course) that someone had bagged up then dropped instead of putting in a bin. 

Oh and by the way a bin full of shog dit is remarkably heavy 

 

A previous next-door-neighbour moved out and rented their house; the tenants had a bl00dy great alsation dog that never got walked.  It's dumping ground was the back garden of the 3-bed terraced house - the garden was perhaps 30ft-ish long.  Any attempt to clean up the sh1t never took place, so before long it was everywhere - and pretty ripe on a hot summer's day I can tell you

Eventually another neighbour had had enough and phoned environmental health - a visit followed, after which the tenants were told to clean it up or else.  A black dustbin liner then appeared outside their house - it must've been 1/3rd to half- full of the stuff, and the bin men refused to take it, so it sat there for weeks until a specialist wagon was sent up to deal with the (now split) bag full.  How much that little exercise cost the council Bear can only wonder at.

The worst thing is that the tenants were quite happy for their young kids (2yrs +) to play in the garden unsupervised.

When the tenants moved out and the owners moved back in (they arrived the evening before the removals van was arriving with all their stuff....) they came round and asked Bear to come and be an independent witness to the state of the place.  It wasn't a pretty sight....

 

1 hour ago, New Haven Neil said:

As for shog dit,

 

 

 

[Happy Hippo]

Back on the bag saga. Istr that the doggy bag is supposed to be bio degradable.

 

Throwing them high into the branches of a tree over a footpath offers the opportunity for a sudden fall out at a later date.

 

What state the contents are in by that stage in open to debate.

 

Mind you the owner of a St Bernard would probably have to be an Olympic class shot putter!

[jamie92208]

26 minutes ago, Happy Hippo said:

Back on the bag saga. Istr that the doggy bag is supposed to be bio degradable.

 

Throwing them high into the branches of a tree over a footpath offers the opportunity for a sudden fall out at a later date.

 

What state the contents are in by that stage in open to debate.

 

Mind you the owner of a St Bernard would probably have to be an Olympic class shot putter!

So that's where Blaster Bates got his famous story about a Shower of Sh1t over Shropshire from.

 

Jamie

 

 

[simontaylor484]

We had been stopped from fitting any more litter bins to lamp posts for 2 reasons 

1 the councils street light contractor Amey had demanded it due to the shog dit going in them because it was above the electric access panel they didnt want their operative covered in it

2 due to the design of the modern lamp posts the only siting of a bin was too high for manual handling of heavy weights. 

 

 

[polybear]

4 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Having spent my professional career- other careers are available, looking after parks and open spaces I can tell you without any question that dogs and their ablutions is the number one complaint that I had to deal with. Whether it was the lack of bins (red or green), the siting of them, the emptying (nothing nicer than carrying a full bag several yards in blazing hot weather) to out of control dogs, dogs in play areas/tennis courts, it not being  cleared. You name it I've dealt with it. Incidentally the reason there are two types of bin , red or green is because originally the sh.t was classed as hazardous waste and had to be incinerated. As a result it had to kept separate from ordinary waste. So my advice is two fold. Firstly when you see someone emptying a bin in a park go and thank them because it is literally a 'sh.t' job because if they didn't do it you would be ankle deep in the stuff very quickly. And secondly reinstate dog licences and charge people £1000 because that's the only way you'll get them to take serious just what they are required to do in having a dog.

 

Rant over- I did say it was the bane of my life didn't I.

 

Cutting the grass in the local park on one of those ride-on lawnmowers must be a delightful job.  Just beware the spray.....

[Winslow Boy]

1 hour ago, polybear said:

 

Cutting the grass in the local park on one of those ride-on lawnmowers must be a delightful job.  Just beware the spray.....

Why do you think they go so fast!

 

And as any poor putupon sh.t shoveller will testify, sh.t always flows down hill.

[Happy Hippo]

I had a dung free afternoon in the garden.

 

The weather was pleasant enough to be out in a sweater and a gilet to keep the chill off my back.

 

 

[jamie92208]

1 hour ago, Winslow Boy said:

Why do you think they go so fast!

 

And as any poor putupon sh.t shoveller will testify, sh.t always flows down hill.

That's why the west end of cities on the east side of England  were usually the posh bits with the sewerage works at the lower east end. This upset the residents of posh Rawdon when Bradford built Esholt sewerage works on their western boundary.  Mind you the canny aldermen of Bradford were alleged to run Esholt at a profit as they extracted all the woollen industry waste and sold it. They even powered their steam loco with extracted wool grease.

 

Jamie

Edited March 17, 2021 by jamie92208