This is Detritus I just have to say I have never seen Miss Annie move as fast as she did in the last 5 mins.
Free stuff on bin raid Olympics, it was a small blur to my eyes as she almost ran into the bedroom to get dressed.
Put out a dismantled but perfectly good table the other day. The legs disappeared within hours, but not the top - I presume a passing Steptoe was after the metal content but not the wood. This was not quite what I'd intended.
Over the years, we've had knackered old dryer, kids' toys, old TV and old fridge (enormous, it was) taken by people on the look-out for stuff. The best was when we'd put a rusty old BBQ right behind our hedge in the front garden only to find someone walking off with it as I approached our house. It's great this stuff gets recycled (and means we don't have to shlep to the dump).
Still, it's not great that the telephone exchange box covers get nicked, too. I reported the one that's been missing for months on UTP a while back and was told that even when they replace them they get nicked within 24 hours "by the gypsies".
I am in possession of a very severely knackered piece of large furniture that is so badly broken it will probably have to be taken away by the council. Does anyone know when the next free collection of bulky items is?
We had a black bin nicked, not from the street but from inside our front garden. They removed the rubbish bags that were in the bin, but left them on the floor instead of putting them in teh (empty) other bin. Why they didn't just nick the other bin I'll never know. Don't know if I was more annoyed about the theft, or the fact they didn't put our rubbish in the other bin.<br><br>Islington do a good free bulky waste collection service (I think they'll come by up to 5 times in 12 months). The stuff Ive put out overnight for the Council has never been pinched first though...I guess our wood was just too grotty.<br>
On Charteris Road for the past three days, some plastic plates have been sat forlornly collecting rainwater. Not something I'd use myself, but they seem to be in good nick, and I'm amazed that none of the area's enterprising/compulsively acquisitive folk have given them a new home.
we've just dismantled our double bed, and brown sofa. They're just outside of our flat on Marriott Road. Both in perfect (almost) working order.<br><br>Any takers?<br>
Saw some old tech outside a Stapleton Hall Road house last night, along with a bottle of ouzo - surely one of fairly few boozes that would be so thoroughly rejected.
In the spirit of reviving great threads of the past. <br><br>I left a Space Hopper in a box and a pair of homemade wooden stilts that had been clogging up my shed out the front on Saturday afternoon - gone within 30 minutes.<br><br>Last week, I left two slightly warped mountain bike tyres out - gone within the hour.<br><br>I also came back the other day with a small pot of wood stain I had borrowed from my mum's as I needed some to use. As I was unloading car I left it on the front wall. Forgot it, remembered five minutes later, walked back outside and sure as, it was gone. <br>
I just came home early from work to find an elderly lady with a pram going through my bins in my front garden. She was looking for "metal, metal".
This is what Brown and Osborne have done to some pensioners!!
I am resurrecting this thread to say thank you to the person on Moray Rd who left a beautiful, almost immaculate 1960s (I think) snakeskin suitcase out on the street this morning for me to find. Best bin raid for a while.
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Corner of Victoria Road and Stapleton Hall Road, by the church.
Would have been interested in those chairs.
Still, it's not great that the telephone exchange box covers get nicked, too. I reported the one that's been missing for months on UTP a while back and was told that even when they replace them they get nicked within 24 hours "by the gypsies".