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Aug. 18th, 2006 07:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueIt's Friday. Fridays are good days, generally.
This particular one, it seems likely that I shall make it to the pub, although somewhat constrained due to being on call.
I seem to have picked up a lurgy somewhere too, I blame my housemates :).
Last night was swimming, managed a mile again.
Popped to Sainsburies that night, for some more breathe right strips. Spotted Pain au chocolat on special offer, so that was breakfast sorted.
Got in early today, and now have an A4 diary thingy, to work as a to-do list. It's seeming to work out quite nicely, but we'll see how that goes.
This afternoon, I visit the opticians for some 'extended wear' contacts. They're the 'wear continually for about a month' ones, which... well shall we say are more suited to my needs - namely things like maelstrom, where faffing with contacts in the middle of a field, especially when I may have had a few, struck me as particularly bad.
Address changing is such a pain, I've been visiting places over the last week or so to 'update' but every single one has strange and whacky requirements for bills, statements, that kind of thing to prove previous/new residency.
And on to other things.
And on an unrelated note, would anyone happen to have some good restaurant recommendations for a lunchtime around Canterbury way?
On Radio 4 this morning, was a discussion of recycling, including how we in the UK are getting better, but are still rubbish at it. It seems something of a hot topic - lots of people get annoyed by having 6 bins, different collections, charging for collections or whatever.
So I thought I'd seek some opinions. If you were In Charge, how would you implement a recycling scheme? I'm a firm believe that if you're asking people to do additional work, then you need to 'sell' it as a positive step (which is mostly being done) but you also need to make it straightforward and easy. It'll also need to be cost effective, so whilst 'get someone to sort all the rubbish' is an option, it'll have to be something that gets funded 'somehow'.
IF you're requiring recycling to be done in the home, you'll need to provide 'some way' to manage it - just telling people to put different stuff in their bin isn't going to work, since ... well what do I do with my empty tins, when my bin is filling up with paper?
What do you think?
Where I lived previously, there were 3 bins. A 'refuse' bin, a 'recycling' bin, and a 'paper' box. Different weeks, the recycling bin had different things collected. Which just struck me as mostly unworkable.
Personally I'm somewhat inclined with the concept of something like mini bottle/tin/clothes banks on pretty much every street, maybe with a 'split bin' that has like slots for different kinds of things to be distributed.
This particular one, it seems likely that I shall make it to the pub, although somewhat constrained due to being on call.
I seem to have picked up a lurgy somewhere too, I blame my housemates :).
Last night was swimming, managed a mile again.
Popped to Sainsburies that night, for some more breathe right strips. Spotted Pain au chocolat on special offer, so that was breakfast sorted.
Got in early today, and now have an A4 diary thingy, to work as a to-do list. It's seeming to work out quite nicely, but we'll see how that goes.
This afternoon, I visit the opticians for some 'extended wear' contacts. They're the 'wear continually for about a month' ones, which... well shall we say are more suited to my needs - namely things like maelstrom, where faffing with contacts in the middle of a field, especially when I may have had a few, struck me as particularly bad.
Address changing is such a pain, I've been visiting places over the last week or so to 'update' but every single one has strange and whacky requirements for bills, statements, that kind of thing to prove previous/new residency.
And on to other things.
And on an unrelated note, would anyone happen to have some good restaurant recommendations for a lunchtime around Canterbury way?
On Radio 4 this morning, was a discussion of recycling, including how we in the UK are getting better, but are still rubbish at it. It seems something of a hot topic - lots of people get annoyed by having 6 bins, different collections, charging for collections or whatever.
So I thought I'd seek some opinions. If you were In Charge, how would you implement a recycling scheme? I'm a firm believe that if you're asking people to do additional work, then you need to 'sell' it as a positive step (which is mostly being done) but you also need to make it straightforward and easy. It'll also need to be cost effective, so whilst 'get someone to sort all the rubbish' is an option, it'll have to be something that gets funded 'somehow'.
IF you're requiring recycling to be done in the home, you'll need to provide 'some way' to manage it - just telling people to put different stuff in their bin isn't going to work, since ... well what do I do with my empty tins, when my bin is filling up with paper?
What do you think?
Where I lived previously, there were 3 bins. A 'refuse' bin, a 'recycling' bin, and a 'paper' box. Different weeks, the recycling bin had different things collected. Which just struck me as mostly unworkable.
Personally I'm somewhat inclined with the concept of something like mini bottle/tin/clothes banks on pretty much every street, maybe with a 'split bin' that has like slots for different kinds of things to be distributed.
