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Date: 08 January 2010 09:30:21
Because of the air conditioning installation logistics, it was necessary for all of us to clean out our cupboards and for "under the house" to be cleared. This resulted in a large pile of stuff that was not going to fit in our small "general waste" bin. And even if we appropriated the neighbours' bin while they were on holidays, it was still not going to work.
It was a pile of junk that screamed "COUNCIL CLEAN-UP!!" (Not sure what it's called in the rest of the world but it's when you get to put a big pile of junk on the footpath and the council comes to collect it)
Sadly our council has quite a complicated set of rules for their clean-ups and there are none scheduled for our area and junk types any time soon. My grandmother, on the other hand, is in a different council area with looser rules and a clean up this week. So last night the parents took a car-load of stuff over and piled it on the grandmother's footpath.
This has provided a lot of excitement for my grandma today because she has been monitoring the piles up and down the street and seeing whose stuff is getting cherry-picked before the truck arrives. She called about an hour ago to say that something that we'd put there had been taken whereas a similar item put out by a neighbour remained. Much speculation resulted as to why our item was chosen and the other spurned.
She just called again to say that the whipper snipper (died only last week. Exquisite timing!) has gone. My mother thinks that this is a marvellous way to keep the grandmother occupied so perhaps we will have to start dumping junk over there on a regular basis.
Hmm I wonder if it would work on the other grandmother as well?