Guest 763- Registered: 16 Jul 2012
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Whilst most people relish the day they can get rid of rubbish, others seems to horde it for a rainy day! Well, we certainly have had our share of rainy days, so perhaps we can only hope that people begin to put their rubbish out for collection! Of course, that would scupper the plans of the little rodents and seagulls who feast upon the detritus left on gardens on the streets.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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welcome margaret a subject close to my heart where i live.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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this gourmet was having a veritable feast a few days ago.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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The gulls would have to get up early in the morning to beat some people to the extra-strength lager left lying about in intact cans.
On the other hand gulls would get their shot at the rubbish at the land-fill site, unless all of us are diligent in out recycling habits.
Oh, for a balance in nature. For such imbalance turns beautiful creatures of air and sea into common vermin. Perhaps this is why we are seen as so attractive to the avaricious French?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Tom, "diligent in our recycling habits?"
Check out every street in the area after the bin men, sorry the saving the planet recycling operatives, have driven their carbon belching leviathon (Oh the irony, the irony) once they have dumped the rubbish in the back of the truck, sorry mobile planet saving transportation device.
The streets are strewn with litter. Wait a day or two and a road sweeper, sorry a saving the planet urban street minor pollution operative will turn up and use his specialist tool to encourage this pollution into his mobile planet saving receptacle. Strange how he doesn't separate the plastic from the glass from the cardboard.
Come on face it chaps all this recycling nonsense has gone on for far too long. They've had their fun, they've saved the planet and now it's time to return to sanity.
Bring back plastic bin bags.
The planet will thank you for it.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Philip, let us, you and me climb the mighty haunch of that Eiger of ejection, that Jungfrau of jetsam, that Cross Fell of dross most-foul and survey all that man hath wrought.
For only on so lofty a peak, with all that is not the midden of malignity to gaze upon, can we hope to bear witness to all the good that is possible in the world.
To set one's mind upon befouling our neighbours environment, while clinging to the idea that they dare not do unto us as we do to them, is to wither the rose of redemption within our very soul, and to close our eyes to the lessons of the past. To push our 'muck' into the face of strangers will surely leave us friendless and alone.
Truly, the world is most chaste to the least chaste and a land-fill site is most beauteous to he who harbours a cesspit in his own heart.
The end comes, not when all has failed, but when nothing is attempted.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Welcome to the Forum Margaret.
I am working very hard to resolve many of the diverse problems facing the decent residents of Folkestoe Road and surrounding roads, but the not-so-decent people are also working very hard to reduce the area to a giant skip/land-fill site.
I'll keep at it.
Roger
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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the barbarians are at the gates, never had a problem here before - this a flat complex in the old "westbury" pub.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Ah you can see my family old house from there I lived there for well over 20years.as you look up the right handside there are four houses that are lower and are white ours was the last one no 34.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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It's like a disease and it's spreading.
I do feel sure that the only way this will be stopped is by hitting people in their pocket - residents or landlords, it matters not.
Roger
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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At least we now know who the culprit is, now given himself away by leaving one of his unwanted famous hats outside the door to be recycled....it's Santa Claus himself no less
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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well spotted barry, i always wondered what he got up to the rest of the year.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,894
My next door neighbours has overflowing household rubbish bins, I think they forgot to put them out last week and a cat was rummaging with the resulting mess everywhere. this made me wonder could that be part of the problem up Folkestone Road.
In other words are the relevant bins getting emptied when they should be or are they getting missed because they are not put out for the bin men. Just a thought.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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no jan the bins are always outside, if not on the pavement next to it, the problem is that that of overcrowding in the houses.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have written to various DCDC departments advising them of this possible/probable overcrowding issue and they do make unannounced visits sometimes; the last visit to Amsterdam House resulted in a small partial look around the house, but notice had to be given (I don't know why, they must have the authority to search) to look round the whole place, by which time of course, any anomilies would have been cleared up and signs of overcrowding got rid of.
And so it goes on.
Roger
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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With regard to the overcrowding, the answer would be to count the different people going in and out of the building over a few days. Sadly it would be a time consuming and costly way to find out so will not happen.
Howard the bins next door are just inside the gate but have been missed before hence my pondering.
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