Back to Normal?

It's been a funny couple of weeks. Half term has been and gone and I have had the urge to catch up with everything this week.

Part of the children's chaos is caused by not having anywhere to put anything. Clothes are an issue with our youngest in particular. We decided a chest of drawers would be the solution but could we find one? All the usual suspects were just ridiculous (pricewise); I mean, you could buy a Georgian original for less (not that we could find such a thing either). We ended up checking out the local auction room on Friday and they had a couple of options. I couldn't attend the auction itself so decided to leave a bid. We had a call late that night to say that "One of our bids was successful," and that they would be open between 9 and 11 the following morning. Ignoring the odd statement about "One of our bids," as we had only left one bid, N went to pick up the chest of drawers. It turned out that what we had actually bought was... a box of first edition comics! They had transposed the last two digits in the lot number and had us down for lots 269 and 296... Don't you just love the competance of these people!

My other bugbear last week was finding two recycling boxes left next to the dustbin. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against recycling per se. My issue here is that as far as I'm concerned, we are all already recycling our rubbish in a far more efficient manner - from the kerbside too! What happens is, the rubbish is collected each week from our dustbins and chucked into an incinerator. It burns and is then converted into electricity. This is brilliant - and so it should be when you take into account how ever many millions it cost to build the damn thing. Admitedly it's not a huge amount of electricity but it'll be even less if we all have to send our rubbish elsewhere. Also, by elsewhere, I mean off the island (probably at the taxpayers' expense) so we don't even benefit. Surely the government is going to get tired of paying for it all to be shipped off the island? Or maybe, they'll just chuck it back into the incinerator anyway? This is why I rang up the recycling department and asked them to remove my boxes.


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