Spring clean

@fasthaggis

I vaguely remember opposition in the local papers to the power plant at the time and it's proposed lifespan being 15years. It's now ~ 20years that it's been generating.

I've never seen any service engineers there to have a nosey at the actual engine/genset inside but it's a fairly compact footprint for the 1MW that it generates.

Weekly round up for anyone vaguely interested!?

Someone dumped a load of car parts in the local park, messaged LBC who diverted one of their bin emptying vans to collect👍

Crows emptying dog shit out of the bin again for food scraps🤮 tidied it up a few times.

Scroats chucking Tesco trolleys over the wall🤷‍♂️, a fellow Civic Pride member contacted Tescos to get their grappling hook out.

Homeless bloke and his two dogs living in a cheap tent in a local tree, LBC can't house him because of the dogs. Had a chat a few times and he goes to MrsRNP Monday community kitchen, nice chap & doggo's.

4 bags of litter collected!

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👍🏻

Nice place for Bert to have a paddle.....spoilt because someone couldn't be arsed taking their tent home.

Bert approves of the recently planted 'Edenfield new forest' that's coming on nicely

Four bags of litter collected this week.

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Tried thinking of something engaging to say but can't be arsed.

A week of walking dog, picking up litter, returning trolleys and generally wiping the arse of ****less ****s.

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Looks like disposable dickhead season is back, this was at Formby beach.
Unfortunately I didn't have a litter bag with me so had to leave it.

'my patch' is tidy though.

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Amazing commitment RNP.🤗

Thanks but it's really not any big deal - I'm out with Bert every morning for an hour whilst he's sniffing and pissing, if I wasn't lunging at litter I'd be bored.

The rest of his walks are high energy adventures/running offlead/eating cyclists etc.

Bert was busy this morning cleaning up from this weekends celebrations that were held around Rawtenstall for his 10th birthday!!!

Happy birthday Bert!

I wonder how many bags of litter we've collected in total?

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I won't touch on the point it was thrown in the bushes near the local McDonald's - it's the fact parents can't fix loose bearing bottom brackets and put the forks the correct way.

Anyway - Whitaker Park is looking lovely thanks to CivicPride

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A bin, a bag and a Binners?

@binners

Is that one of yours?

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Sometimes you have to walk on by..... out in my neighbouring towns park and going in the opposite direction the trolley needs to go. A week later it's still there.

Other than that it's been a normal week of litter picking and dead badgers

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RIVER ROULETTE!

Whenever it rains and we get a high river it always leaves a mystery prize when it abates that we can see from our living room. This time it was a sledge!

Got my wellys on and found a bonus bike whilst paddling! - also two bags of dredged litter.

Did some Himalayan balsam bashing in my guerilla garden on the land opposite - I've no idea what I'm doing with gardening but pretty stuff seems to be growing nicely.

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Also did 4bags of doggo walk litter this week.

Repatriated a trolley this morning, fixed a tree in the local park that had a broken support, picked 4 or 5 bags of litter in the last week.

Pippa's  (border collie pup) owner was asking where to get bags from as she is going too start litter picking once Pippa's walks increase.

Rawtenstall looking lovely as everything is in bloom thanks to CivicPride volunteers.

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Next time people with the vehicle registration containing 'KVM' are riding at Horncliffe woods - can you take your litter home with you please.

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good work!

Britain in bloom judging day!

The whole town is looking spotless and lovely in full bloom. The road sweeper was out this morning doing the rounds and there are lots of other litter picking bags all over town ready for collection this morning with litter and weeds/dead headings. I only managed 1/4bag of micro pickings.

Good luck Rawtenstall and CivicPride, you make the town a great place to live!

(forgot my phone this morning)

River Roulette time again!!!!

The river has abated and today's roulette prizes are;

Local Ford dealers car park cone thrown off the bridge

A metal barrier

Half a shopping trolley

Base of a traffic cone

A bag of general litter

Got my wellies on and collected my prizes!!!!!!

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Yesterdays bagged river rubbish was left at nearest LBC bin this morning for collection. Another full bag from the local park was collected by mid walk then half a bag on the way home that joined the earlier river rubbish.

Obvious statement is obvious but nice weather = more litter.

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Aye, brings out the numpties to sunbathe. Y
They will go back to their caves shortly...

Thanks Customer 79, I hope you enjoyed the extra onions? 

Chair dragged out and dumped in local business's skip (the owner knows me), scruffy ****s picnic cleared away.

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Not sure what's happened to my photos but in case you were missing what a bag of litter and Bert looks like.......here's this morning's.

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Bert seems less than motivated this morning

^thats near our house and he knows he's heading home so he gets a bit sulky!

The litter pixies have emerged from their ratholes to visit my adopted woodland with the recent good weather, I found yesterday.

^thats near our house and he knows he’s heading home so he gets a bit sulky!

Lola get line that when she realises a walk isn't to the highstreet to lick up last nights vomit or extract treats from her usual haunts.

Not much recent activity due to being away for a short break but back on it this morning collecting litter and plastic that would otherwise clog our brains up.

Seeing as all my photos have disappeared heres what they looked like!

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Unfortunately, despite an awesome set of mountainbike trails being built for them, a section of riders at my local trails in Leamington still dump shit everywhere.

Me and Harold picked it up.... again.

It's not all bad - we get to see Harold again!

(I'm on holiday break from liitter picking, back on it next week)

Getting darker in the mornings now when we set off at 6am so it's difficult to pick litter if you can't see it.

Couple of bags worth from the last few days to tidy up 'my patch' after being on holiday for two weeks.

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It's now too dark at 6am to see any litter so I think that's it for now.

I've tried previously taping a torch to the litter picker but you need the ambient light to be able to see the litter in order to walk over and grab it rather than spotting it by torchlight. I'll still be litter picking stuff by hand and dumping it in the nearest bin but there won't be anymore updates for awhile.

Thanks to anyone who has picked litter up  having been inspired by this thread. See you again in the  Spring.

(The end of this morning's walk - half a bag and a repatriated trolley)

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Surely the answer is to fit Bert with 360 degree lighting?

Still Wombling! (McScroats still can't use a bin)

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You missed a couple...

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.......and we're back in business!

Its light enough again at 6am to see litter on Berts morning walks.

Lovely weather this morning, lots of snowdrops and daffodils in the local park, spring has definitely sprung! Anyone else joining me clearing away the winter months collections of Monster, Redbull,  MaccyD's and Costa litter?

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One of my favourite local paths suffers from high tide so a lot of litter gets swept on to it with the tidal flow. I've already done one litter pick of the year and will carry on once it builds up after the tides. I also go along over the summer with a battery powered hedge clipper to keep the grass and reeds at bay otherwise mid summer you can't get through it. I take my picker with me whenever I go away in the van as well and litter pick wherever I end up parked up.

Another beautiful spring morning!

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Slightly shorter 45 minute Bert walk this morning so I had time to pedal to work which I've not done for probably nearly a year. Bert goes to work with MrsRNP and twice a week goes Carni-cross training with Lucy who picks him up from the office and takes him running for an hour - so don't feel sorry for his reduced morning walk!

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Picked up a bag full from our local mtb trails this morning. 

We smashed it through there the other day on the bike and saw a load of tha yout' sitting around in the wooded section so I knew that it would be covered in their litter afterwards. 

Yup

I'd like to give it the traditional, 'the dog helped me pick it up' etc, but no, Harold did absolutely nothing whatsoever to help me.

I mean, zero. Nothing. It was all me. 🙂👍

Harold always looks super proud and happy with his job though!

This morning's Wombleing. Not sure what Bert would make of an actual Womble if ever we met one?

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The Littlest Hobo (if anyone remembers that TV program from childhood)

"In today's episode Hobo helps clear up after the scruffy self centred people of Rossendale, and does two shits in the process"

No wonder I preferred watching the A-Team instead.

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Maybe tomorrow he'll want to settle down, until tomorrow comes he'll just keep movin' on

"I'll get it on the way back" except you never did.

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Happy birthday. Because you're so special to me, I'm gifting you a blight on the countryside with plastic animal choking hazards. Many happy returns. 

Woke up a bit early this morning so decided to do a route that I don't do very often.

Before I'd managed to pick any litter I repatriated a shopping trolley back to the nearby retail park. Crossing a main road provides enough shame/hassle that the trolleys never seem to progress any further than the end of the 1/2mile path.

That same retail path also resulted in picking one bag of litter that joined Saturdays bags from the group of Civic Pride volunteers that do the weekly cleaning of the dual carriageway into/out of our town.

The next section of my route is the bit I don't often do - it's boggy in winter and there is always lots of litter and I end up late because of it. Today was no exception - a heavy full bag collected. This has all been thrown/discarded from vehicles joining and on the A56.

Left this bag at the bus stop bin for collection.

The next section is a school route - when little Johnny's mum reckons her son has ADHD because he can't concentrate at school I think it might be something to do with the large Redbulls he drinks on route then throws in the bushes.

Third bag full and left at the heritage train station bin.

I actually hate this time of year - it's now light enough to see but too early in the season for vegetation to cover the winter months worth of bagged dog shit, piss bottles and stolen trolleys that I can't get to or do anything about.

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This forum is useless.

Go to Pistonheads and search for Spring Clean if you want to see what bags of litter look like on a normal functioning website.

Spring cleaning carried on here;

Edited to add - I've tried posting a link to Pistonheads but it's ****ing impossible. Photos don't work properly on here.

It takes forever to load a page/post.

 I cross posted my Cayenne thread onto Pistonheads and I was genuinely surprised as I'd forgotten how smooth and flawless posting/editing was on other forums - and it's free with unobtrusive advertising!

I'll come back when the forum works properly. If anyone is missing the sight of litter bags my user name is the same on Pistonheads.

  I've given up posting on this forum nowadays, but......

To any mountain bikers sessioning at Horncliffe woods - take your shit home with you.

I don't go this route in the darker months as the path from my direction goes through a farm. Just gone this way for the first time this year and the access road is littered with water and energy drink litter.

Its definitely mountain bikers - as it's clean beyond the turn off for the woods.

1 bag just on this section of my walk.

Got the reg number of a transit today just as it was finishing fly tipping on the moors between Sowerby Bridge and Oxenhope. Any idea who I should be reporting this to?

https://new.calderdale.gov.uk/dio/report-fly-tipping