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Xmas decoration plant rescued from somewhere at the time, shown for scale next to Berts leg. Planted in the guerilla garden this morning. Last year's chrimbo decoration trees are doing well but lost a few to deer nibbles.
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why as a dog owner do I pick up litter?
To make up for dog owning ****s like this.
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Tenuous link but today's detritus-du-jour is rubber bands. I must be following a postman who isn't interested in making a giant elastic band ball🤷♂️
1 bag collected
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Back from holiday!
Has anyone been litter picking in my absence?.....
1 bag collected, curiosities included two babies dummy's
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John Wick-ers house......
as made by fellow Civic Pride members in the local park.
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Out walking with Bert in one of his favourite parks and noticed that lots of horse chestnuts have started germination/growing. Unfortunately they were in an area that's mowed so they wouldn't survive.
Collected and planted them in my guerilla garden tonight. If only 0.1% of all the acorns/conkers/wild seeds that I've picked up grow then it's going to be an awesome forest one day!
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4x more Red bull than Monster Roadman this morning!
.......and with that fascinating fact that's it. I think this thread is done - it just feels like an echo chamber in here. I guess everyone has seen it by now and anyone who would be inspired has done so.
I'm not a social media influencer and there's only so many ways you can make a photo of a bin bag vaguely interesting.
I might do a weekly/monthly bump through the summer but I think daily is done.
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This week,
Returned a shopping trolley
Rescued a frog
Replanted some germinating conkers into the guerilla garden
Cleared a dog poo dump
Picked a bag of litter every morning
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Toad🤣👍. I often peep at your thread, and yes, you have inspired me. No dog, but I do regular pick-ups. Chappeau.
Weekly update.
Started off annoyingly - nice Sunday evening walk over Holcombe moor/Peel tower and some McScroat has left a McCup on the ground. ****ing take it home🤬
Another evening walk and fly tipping under a roadbridge. Of course there's a Monster can present. I only associate Monster with utter ****s nowadays as discarded Monster cans are omnipresent. Sorry to anyone who actually enjoys it but 🤷♂️
On a positive note - spring time love is in the air. To anyone who has followed this thread for awhile - Millie's affection to Bert used to be unrequited. However over winter Mille has matured from a puppy to a lady dog and Bert is now interested.......very interested!
5bags of litter collected and left at various council collected bins along with other Civic Pride members bags.
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Discarded Nando's packaging - previously I'd put it in the litter bin on the bus stop opposite. It's been there for years as I often put Bert's poo bags in it.
Recently however it's been removed🤷♂️
Couple of trolleys repatriated
Crow raided bins tidied in the local park
A56 dual carriageway footpath litter picked
Cemetery tidied - it's surprising how much Monster dead people can drink...
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Anyone else litter picking?
Please keep this thread up. Many might not contribute but it’s one of my favourite to read. We have a couple of litter pickers to get the kids out, might try and reignite their desire this weekend
Thanks for the kind words.
I'm not an influencer by any means but it's difficult to try and maintain engagement when the subject matter is a daily bag of litter!
Regardless, Bert needs his local morning walkies so I'll carry on litter picking. Evening walks are adventure time!
So close.....yet so far🤷♂️
6 bags collected this week (one walk was a double bagger)
Sad to see dead fox, couldn't see anything obvious wrong with it.
Powered by litter! Rawtenstalls little known 1MW power station that is fed methane from the old covered over tip. Any STWers who have ridden Horncliffe wood trails have pedalled past it.
Dumped MaccyD's out of a chavchariot literally next to a bin.
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Well done as usual RNP.
Have taken to getting a morning fix on David Byrne's positive news site.
Methane news 😆
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/landfills-converting-methane-gas-to-energy/
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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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?
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.
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!
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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