Rubbish, lawyers and fires

10 April 2012

Our council has gone down the route of rubbish collections every two weeks.  One week it’s general rubbish, the following week it’s recycling day.  From the look of it there has been a marked increase in the collection of recycling stuff since this system started.  It’s not really made much difference to us seeing as it’s only me and Jan living in here.  For some time now we had been putting out our bins on a monthly basis anyway.  We don’t produce all that much rubbish anyway so this newer system works well for us.  However, I have eyes that see and there’s a family across the road from us where both their normal bin and recycling bin is over following every week.  And that is the real weakness of the system.  It doesn’t allow for the different sizes of the families in the town.

The News is full of the usual crap again today.  Taxi drivers want to charge more but to it their way – the council said no but on the other hand gave them a 25p rise on the basic fare.  The Hussy Hospital is setting a limit on the number of C-Diff cases during this coming financial year; I wonder what they will do if they exceed it?  A number of councils along the proposed route of the new HS2 railway have club together and are asking for a judicial review.  I’ve not seen them about but the traffic wardens have been busy having issued 142 tickets in one small street; now all they need to do is turn up at 4pm when the barriers go down and start issuing tickets to the overwhelming number of non-disabled drivers entering the town centre.

But the biggest story for me was on the letters page.  Not so long back Nuneaton fire station appeared in a TV programme.  At that time it was the county’s busiest fire station.  Now it is down to just 2 units. Bedworth is now down to just one crew of retained fire fighters.  Atherstone also has two units.  A fire at Bayton Road Industrial Estate needed three crews to fight it.  One came from Bedworth, one from Nuneaton and the third came from Atherstone Taking 20 minutes to arrive on scene.  Another time both Nuneaton crews were needed to an incident on the M6.  So for one hour the town didn’t have any fire cover!  That is worrying, or should be worrying to us Dorktowners.  So much for improvements!  Who will get blamed when some poor sod dies in a fire because a fire crew had to travel too far to get there? 

Oh yes, I had another letter in there today ;-)))

So what did you do over the Easter weekend?  I didn’t do much at all apart from read and write.  I got another 5000+ words done on my book.  This morning I also managed to get my entry in for last week’s AP prize of Sony Nex 5 – not the most beautiful of cameras but at least it’s a Sony.  Sadly though, it won’t take my current lenses so I will have to make do with the kit lens that comes with the camera or buy new ones … if I win it that is ;-)))

Are we dreaming of sailing off into the sunset?  Well, I’m not cos I can’t afford it.  WE saw this ferry … 

as it entered Fleetwood docks one time we were up there.  It looks close in shore, and indeed it was!

On their way to get married, a young Catholic couple is involved in a fatal car accident. They find themselves sitting outside the Pearly Gates, waiting for St. Peter to process them into Heaven.  While waiting, they begin to wonder: 

Could they possibly get married in Heaven?

When St. Peter shows up, they ask him.  St. Peter says, 'I don't know. This is the first time anyone has asked that. Let me go and find out,' and he leaves.

The couple sit and wait, and wait. Two months pass and the couple is still waiting. As they wait, they discuss that if they were allowed to get married in 

Heaven, what was the eternal aspect of it all.  'What if it doesn't work?' they wondered. 'Are we stuck together forever?'

After yet another month, St. Peter finally returns, looking somewhat bedraggled 'Yes,' he informs the couple, 'You can get married in Heaven.'

'Great!' says the couple, 'But we were just wondering, what if things don't work out? Can we also get a divorce in Heaven?'

St. Peter, red-faced with anger, slams his clipboard onto the ground!!

'What's wrong?' asks the frightened couple.

'OH, COME ON!' St. Peter shouts, 'It took me three months to find a priest up here!