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Date: 04 August 2006 13:05:12
We have been down at the London pad over the weekend, putting some final touches to it (you can still tell that some very careless builders stomped all over the place in their boots and didn't put down dustsheets when they painted, but it is habitable, and what's more, holiday-in-able for our first guests).
One thing that we have been forced to take seriously is the issue of rubbish. The flat is in a block of about 15, which makes it too big for wheelie bins and recycling bags or boxes, but too small for "estate schemes" with skips and their own recycling bins. We have taken to spending a lot of time on Camden's website trying to work out where to recycle things, religiously separating recyclables (very noble, I'm sure, but there are fairly comprehensive recycling bins in the next square, which is great), taking a small bag of rubbish with us almost every time we leave the house, to put in a pavement rubbish bin, but also going out at the dead of night with larger bags to find odd places to leave them (an abandoned shopping trolley outside the supermarket, for example). When you are moving into a place and buying furniture, towel rails, picture frames etc. etc. you generate an awful lot of both polystyrene and cardboard. Theoretically, cardboard can be recycled, and we took almost a full car load to the recycling centre last time we were here, but we didn't have the car this trip.
So it's hiding in the wardrobe. Out of sight, out of mind. Er, I think our tenants might want to use that. Oops.