Butterfly spotted in the garden. I think it's a Painted Lady.
Apparently they are migrants. Some years they get to every part of Britain. Lots have been seen this spring, so it may be a very good year for them.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Butterfly
Butterfly spotted in the garden. I think it's a Painted Lady.
Apparently they are migrants. Some years they get to every part of Britain. Lots have been seen this spring, so it may be a very good year for them.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
It's Raining Bin Men
Sorry I haven't put anything on here for so long. There's been a terrible bin strike in Bristol and, according to the rules of Blogspot, I wasn't allowed to write anything during the crisis. Something to do with Health and Safety, I suspect.
After weeks of partial strikes, the bin men were due to go on full time strike from next week.
However, they've agreed to something or other and yesterday they called it all off.
As soon as the news broke the streets were awash with dustmen ( and dustwomen too,).
In fact , I saw so many that I suspect that some of them were not real dustmen, but impostors who get their kicks from impersonating genuine waste disposal operatives.
Not everybody was keen to go back to work and I heard that fights had broken out at one of the meetings. Dustman on dustman violence is something that I thought I'd never see during my lifetime, but Lo! It has come to pass! So that's quite good then.
Many people didn't like the bin strike but to a keen rubbish spotter like myself it gave a rare opportunity to look at piles of domestic waste.
Here are some of the results of my observations:
It's a lot of rubbish, eh?
After weeks of partial strikes, the bin men were due to go on full time strike from next week.
However, they've agreed to something or other and yesterday they called it all off.
As soon as the news broke the streets were awash with dustmen ( and dustwomen too,).
In fact , I saw so many that I suspect that some of them were not real dustmen, but impostors who get their kicks from impersonating genuine waste disposal operatives.
Not everybody was keen to go back to work and I heard that fights had broken out at one of the meetings. Dustman on dustman violence is something that I thought I'd never see during my lifetime, but Lo! It has come to pass! So that's quite good then.
Many people didn't like the bin strike but to a keen rubbish spotter like myself it gave a rare opportunity to look at piles of domestic waste.
Here are some of the results of my observations:
It's a lot of rubbish, eh?
Drainserve
Drainserve, O Drainserve
You're so yellow, green and blue
A drain clearance operatives' yard
By the M32
If I had a blocked up drain
I know what I would do
I'd be picking up the telephone to make a call to you
You offer a 24 hour service
That much I know is true
It seems quite long to clear a drain
but I suppose that's up to you
With your sturdy fence and barbed wire rolls
You're stronger than a fort
And you'd certainly cause any passing burglar
To have a second thought
O Drainserve
You make my brain swerve
You touch a raw nerve
In the field of drain clearance you're ahead of the curve
As you stand so brightly painted by the M32
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