Recycling

Like so much of the country Scarborough Borough Council has gone onto kerbside collections of recyclables – everyone has been given lovely big bright blue bins – they look so pretty and in keeping scattered across our little moorland village! The list of what you can and cannot put in the bin is very long and complicated, for example you can put Christmas and birthday cards in the bin but not if they have glitter on them, all plastic bottles regardless of type but not yoghurt pots. Never mind, we thought, we've always separated our recyclables and taken them to the big bins at the supermarket. So yesterday with a car load of stuff off we went to stock up only to discover that the big paper and can bins had gone leaving only an empty space and a couple of glass bins. Upon enquiring as to the whereabouts of the bins we are told that the council are expecting more glass to be recycled as more people get into the habit and that paper and tin cans can go in your blue bin. But one big problem with that – you cannot put in envelopes with windows or if they are manila (no mention of other colours though or envelopes stuck together with selotape…) – so where do these go? In your normal bin to go to landfill!! I'm not sure SBC have got the hang of this yet. So does anyone have any sensible suggestions as to what we can do with our weekly small heap of windowed &/or brown envelopes?

More stone heads....

The mystery of the stone heads deepens! More stones have been spotted across the county and the story is now national news in the Telegraph today and on the BBC yesterday. To read more and see the BBC news report click here.

Weather wins.

Hands down or rather rain down. For the first time in 49 years the CLA Gamefair has been cancelled. This year it was to have been at Harewood House and the CJS staff were looking forward to an outing, although not to the queuing to get there, last time four years ago we joined the queue on the M1 (I've never queued on a motorway before or since). It was a wonderful day out and sparked TB's love of Morgan horses and subsequent purchase of a beautiful colt and breeding of a half Morgan foal. The office dogs got a refresher course on what do on hearing a whistle, we all came home laden with purchases, sore feet, sunburnt and full of our adventures and all we'd seen. We hope the Gamefair will return to the northern half of the country soon. For more information about the cancellation visit: http://www.gamefair.co.uk/news_snippets.php

How big is that box?

This morning we received this box from a well known internet shop. It's a bit small for the new printer we thought.

So what's in a box this big….

Yes, one cable that would have fitted into a small padded envelope.