On Saturday at the council tip I pulled a working cordless hammer drill
out of a skip. It turns out that I already have a suitable charger and
spare battery for it.

On Saturday, I spotted in my neighbour's skip a child's bicycle seat
(for transporting a small child on the back of bike) in excellent
condition.

I realised yesterday that it also contained:

* a handcarved wooden chess set and board
* a variety of new, unopened silver-plated baby-related gift items
* a large selection of child's toys in good condition
* a large wooden Roman blind, unused and in its box

Today I took advantage of daylight to retrieve:

* a working Kenwood mixer/blender, in perfect condition
* a sturdy utility trolley with large wheels
* a very large inflatable swimming pool (boxed), complete with
electric filter and water pump
* a wetsuit, golf-club and ski mask (I'll *so* look the part at
the next local punishment beating)
* a hairdrier, with the receipt
* various clean tarpaulins
* a large tin full of drill bits and misc. hardware items, some
new and still in their packaging
* dozens of cans half-full paint/varnish/whitewash/etc
* a large variety of household and garden items, either new or in
good condition
* a Sony stereo system, complete with speakers
* various items that would have been worth keeping except for
being damaged by being thrown into a skip
* a UK passport (expires today)

I'm simply amazed. What incredible waste. I think that some people
shouldn't be allowed money or possessions. The householder consented to
my rooting around in the skip. I'd have been very embarrassed to be
disposing of property in this way.

The vast majority of this stuff has now gone to a charity shop or
Freecycle. I gave the stereo to some teenagers. I'll keep the paint and
tarpaulins and a couple of other items myself. I sold the passport to
some criminals.

Daniele

D.M. Procida wrote:
On Saturday at the council tip I pulled a working cordless hammer drill
out of a skip. It turns out that I already have a suitable charger and
spare battery for it.

On Saturday, I spotted in my neighbour's skip a child's bicycle seat
(for transporting a small child on the back of bike) in excellent
condition.

I realised yesterday that it also contained:

* a handcarved wooden chess set and board
* a variety of new, unopened silver-plated baby-related gift items
* a large selection of child's toys in good condition
* a large wooden Roman blind, unused and in its box

Today I took advantage of daylight to retrieve:

* a working Kenwood mixer/blender, in perfect condition
* a sturdy utility trolley with large wheels
* a very large inflatable swimming pool (boxed), complete with
electric filter and water pump
* a wetsuit, golf-club and ski mask (I'll *so* look the part at
the next local punishment beating)
* a hairdrier, with the receipt
* various clean tarpaulins
* a large tin full of drill bits and misc. hardware items, some
new and still in their packaging
* dozens of cans half-full paint/varnish/whitewash/etc
* a large variety of household and garden items, either new or in
good condition
* a Sony stereo system, complete with speakers
* various items that would have been worth keeping except for
being damaged by being thrown into a skip
* a UK passport (expires today)

I'm simply amazed. What incredible waste. I think that some people
shouldn't be allowed money or possessions. The householder consented to
my rooting around in the skip. I'd have been very embarrassed to be
disposing of property in this way.

The vast majority of this stuff has now gone to a charity shop or
Freecycle. I gave the stereo to some teenagers. I'll keep the paint and
tarpaulins and a couple of other items myself. I sold the passport to
some criminals.

Daniele

The person might have fun getting a new passport. Last time I did so, I
had mislaid my old passport. The passport office actually phoned and
talked to the person I had got to sign my photograph. He was a serving
police officer and, in all his years of signing photos for every local
criminal, ne'er-do-well and most of the rest of the county (some of whom
were even respectable and law-abiding), had never before been contacted.

Couldn't agree more with your sentiments.

BTW - Our local tips have apparently started accepting and processing
chipboard (particle board), including melamine coated kitchen units.
Seems they can now recycle it. (Though quite what that means is unclear,
maybe baby milk for China?) Of course, this is just a few weeks after I
got rid of quite a few.

--
Rod

Hypothyroidism is a seriously debilitating condition with an insidious
onset.
Although common it frequently goes undiagnosed.
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Rod wrote:
SNIP

BTW - Our local tips have apparently started accepting and processing
chipboard (particle board), including melamine coated kitchen units.
Seems they can now recycle it. (Though quite what that means is
unclear, maybe baby milk for China?) Of course, this is just a few
weeks after I got rid of quite a few.

Our local has been doing this for about 6 months. They take any kind of
timber, chip, MDF, melamine coated etc.

I was dumping some offcuts a while ago & joked with the foreman 'spose I'll
be buying this back from B&Q in a few weeks'. He said that I would, it was
all being reprocessed into chipboard.


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"D.M. Procida" wrote in
message
...
On Saturday at the council tip I pulled a working cordless hammer drill
out of a skip. It turns out that I already have a suitable charger and
spare battery for it.

On Saturday, I spotted in my neighbour's skip a child's bicycle seat
(for transporting a small child on the back of bike) in excellent
condition.

I realised yesterday that it also contained:

* a handcarved wooden chess set and board
* a variety of new, unopened silver-plated baby-related gift items
* a large selection of child's toys in good condition
* a large wooden Roman blind, unused and in its box

Today I took advantage of daylight to retrieve:

* a working Kenwood mixer/blender, in perfect condition
* a sturdy utility trolley with large wheels
* a very large inflatable swimming pool (boxed), complete with
electric filter and water pump
* a wetsuit, golf-club and ski mask (I'll *so* look the part at
the next local punishment beating)
* a hairdrier, with the receipt
* various clean tarpaulins
* a large tin full of drill bits and misc. hardware items, some
new and still in their packaging
* dozens of cans half-full paint/varnish/whitewash/etc
* a large variety of household and garden items, either new or in
good condition
* a Sony stereo system, complete with speakers
* various items that would have been worth keeping except for
being damaged by being thrown into a skip
* a UK passport (expires today)

I'm simply amazed. What incredible waste. I think that some people
shouldn't be allowed money or possessions. The householder consented to
my rooting around in the skip. I'd have been very embarrassed to be
disposing of property in this way.

The vast majority of this stuff has now gone to a charity shop or
Freecycle. I gave the stereo to some teenagers. I'll keep the paint and
tarpaulins and a couple of other items myself. I sold the passport to
some criminals.

Sounds like a d-i-v-o-r-c-e going on.

On 3 Feb, 17:29, (D.M.
Procida) wrote:

Today I took advantage of daylight to retrieve:

* * * * a wetsuit, golf-club and ski mask (I'll *so* look the part at
* * * * the next local punishment beating)
Daniele

Yes the punishment beating you'll get for taking things from the dump.
I have been told off several times for trying to take things away..
They don't like you doing it, it is their rubbish!!

Tim Decker wrote:

Today I took advantage of daylight to retrieve:

* a wetsuit, golf-club and ski mask (I'll *so* look the part at
the next local punishment beating)

Yes the punishment beating you'll get for taking things from the dump.
I have been told off several times for trying to take things away..
They don't like you doing it, it is their rubbish!!

Not at all. In fact on Saturday, we were discussing with the attendants
how disgraceful it all was etc, and they were pointing out the items
they'd carefully set aside for people to see and take away.

I was looking at the electrics bin and asked whether I could have the
drill.

"No, sorry," he said, "we're not allowed to let you."

Then he made a point of disappearing, so I discreetly put the drill in
the car and made off.

Daniele

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(D.M. Procida) saying
something like:


Not at all. In fact on Saturday, we were discussing with the attendants
how disgraceful it all was etc, and they were pointing out the items
they'd carefully set aside for people to see and take away.

I was looking at the electrics bin and asked whether I could have the
drill.

"No, sorry," he said, "we're not allowed to let you."

Then he made a point of disappearing, so I discreetly put the drill in
the car and made off.

I hope you left him the price of a pint.

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(D.M. Procida) saying
something like:

Not at all. In fact on Saturday, we were discussing with the attendants
how disgraceful it all was etc, and they were pointing out the items
they'd carefully set aside for people to see and take away.

I was looking at the electrics bin and asked whether I could have the
drill.

"No, sorry," he said, "we're not allowed to let you."

Then he made a point of disappearing, so I discreetly put the drill in
the car and made off.

I hope you left him the price of a pint.

Yes it's all been pushed underground now, gone are the days when you
gave the price of a pint for the service of them to place it in the boot
of your car

--
Corporal Jones
"I don't like it up me"