A better night’s sleep for Karen. Marie was up ironing at 9am – thanks Marie. She also did loads of other jobs for which we are very grateful. I must never let on that I can actually use an iron, mind you, it would take me hours to get ironed what she can get through in 30 minutes.

Karen spent quite a bit of time with Marie whilst Maried weed (or should that be weeded).

Generally uneventful day. Finished off with some shopping at the Arnison Centre for Louisa’s birthday present.

I’ve been messing on with the blog book and aim to have it done by next weekend (or early that following week). I definately want it finished before I start work on the 31st July as time will be very sparse after that.
I’ll just share a little gripe with blog land. We had an extra bin delivered today (“Twin Bins”). One is meant for rubbish and the other for recyclable things. I am not particurly keen on recycling, but heh, an extra bin always comes in handy. BUT………..when you read the leaflet, you need a degree to understand what goes in what bin and you are NOT ALLOWED to put normal rubbish in the extra bin !!! So, I think, fair enough, I’ll just carry on as per usual, putting everything in our main bin. BUT NOW…………..it only gets emptied once every 2 weeks. The other week, they empty the recycle bin and apparently you can be fined for putting the wrong stuff in the wrong bin.

Do we get a reduced Council Bill for this ? Do we hell !!!!! So, all of a suddent the whole of the village has become mini-recyclers without being asked if we want to do it. It really has got my dander up. What made me really laugh is they want us to RINSE out tins and glass jars before putting them in the recycle bin.

They HAVE to be joking. The only good thing I felt we got for the council tax bill was the bin service and NOW I am doing the bloody work for myself.  Actually, I don’t mind paying for the police & the fire brigade to be fair, but grrrrrrrrrrrr