I think everyone got the idea by now

and because it's boring to film rubbish everyday, here are a couple of shots of our lovely cactus.

I took them as an experiment with the macro setting on my camera, which I've never used before.

 

 

Nadja bought the cactus in Poundland, so it shows that it doesn't have to cost a bundle to have something beautiful on your kitchen window ledge.

And by Midday on Saturday

The miracle workers

After the regular collectors had done their rounds and removed the regular rubbish, the hard working special squad came and cleared away the garden rubbish and broken mirrors. They left it looking like this:

Full credit to the local council (RBK&C) and their hardworking crew. If you wonder how long it will take for the rubbish to build up again, check back here later.

Update . . .

The first picture was taken at 11.27 this morning. About an hour later I looked out the window and saw this:

This second picture was timed at 12.34.

And by 5.15 pm . . .

Another photo from my phone

I came home from the shops and the sun was trying to come out. Rather than go up for my camera and risk missing the pause in the drizzle, I whipped out the phone to take this shot that shows some new, smaller bags arrived on the scene. So now we know what rubbish bags get up to in the rain.

Caught in the act

I had just gone downstairs to take today's photo, and I was standing at the front gate thinking about how to shoot it. Suddenly a woman appeared with two bin bags. Her memory must be bad because when she moved on she forgot to take them with her. While she was standing there my finger must have slipped resulting in me accidentally taking a photo of her. 

The collectors come

on tuesday mornings, and they do a good job. Unfortunately there are some things they cannot deal with. Most of the stuff they've left behind is recycling bags stuffed with garden refuse. The bags clearly list things you can and can't recycle. In the NO list is 'Garden waste or wood'. So these bags can't be included in the regular collection. I understand why the collectors are reluctant to deal with chunks of broken glass - they're dangerous. So the broken mirrors are still there too. I'm sure some other collection service will be alerted about the things left behind and, in due course, they too will be collected. Meanwhile, the remaining pile continues to advertise the place as somewhere to dump unwanted stuff, and we can expect the pile to grow.

Spring Bank Holiday

I return to my viewpoint from my window for today's photo on this sunny bank holiday
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I invite you to compare this to my first post to see the build-up over the 4 days since I started.

A new angle for Sunday

From this side we can see that among the new additions, someone, attracted by the growing pile, has added a broken mirror to the other contributions.

and an update . . .

Someone was so impressed by this as a place to leave broken mirrors that they decided to add another