I Need More Weekend

Boy oh boy.  I’d forgotten how little weekend you get when you are working.  I really have been living in the lap of luxury.

I am determined to spend as much time with the children this weekend during the day but you forget about the shopping, washing and ironing that needs to be done as well. 

Well that can all be worked in gradually, but because I’ve been a little tired this week and still helping my husband in the evening with one of his projects, I’d kind of put off getting the Christmas tree down.

So that is how I spent my first Friday night!  Luckily my wonderful mom had made us a huge lamb stew complete with dumplings (I won’t accept it without!), so tea was taken care of.

So my first task this morning is to go and put all the mess I made in the living room up in the loft.  I can’t play with the children until I do this, as guess what, there is no floor space at the moment.

I also have to work in the shopping otherwise we have no fresh food.  Although I did kind of hint to my husband last night that maybe he wouldn’t mind doing some during the week while I am working. 

I can’t moan too much at him though because he has been making me some very nice packed lunches for work . . .  and taking me and picking me up from work. . . and taking the children to and from school . . . and sending me nice litte emails to cheer me up.

You know, this working malarkey might just work to my advantage.

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Week 3

Well, being Christmas the rubbish has accumulated quite nicely.  But the recycling hasn’t changed very much.

*  Vegetable peelings as usual.

*  3 glass bottles.

*  All my milk bottles that I have delivered

*  Paper as usual

What gets me is that there is no council pick up of cardboard after the Christmas holidays.  It’s an ideal opportunity to ‘up’ the recycling quotas but nothing is offered and I haven’t found an explanation for why not yet. 

I put all my cardboard into it’s own bag just to see how much there was and I had almost 2 bin bags of various cardboard.  Surely as a one off the councils could put on extra vehicles to take this away.

I know people can take it up to their nearest waste management sites, but for many the journey is not worth it, or they don’t have transport. 

I have got a couple of suggestions on recycling which I am currently looking into and will post them in the next couple of weeks.  And one is for the cardboard.

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