Spring clean

A bin, a bag and a Binners?

@binners

Is that one of yours?

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

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.

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.

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

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!!!!!!

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.

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 **** picnic cleared away.

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.

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)

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

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

You missed a couple…