The Tip

[poliphilo]

We went to the tip yesterday. It was fun.

There's this low brick wall (with placards above it at intervals, reading "metal", "wood", "scrap" etc ) and you throw things over it- 
                                            - 
                                              -and they fall into bunkers on the far side. 

We got rid of...
 
the horrid plastic garden furniture Jackie (not jackiejj) gave us,
the broken vax machine my in laws gave us, 
the tatty wicker chair I rescued from a house clearance,
my old typewriter.

The typewriter was built like a battleship and so heavy I could hardly carry it from room to room.  I was sorry in a way, and I told it so as I heaved it over the wall, but as I further explained, "times have changed".

Comments

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

I always find it very satisying to heave rubbish into the tip. It's also a very good place for picking up retro furniture. And fishtanks.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I like it that the stuff is getting recycled and some of it- maybe- going to new owners.

Retro furniture is good!

house sale

[(Anonymous)]

I gather from your postings that the house sale has fallen through....? I sympathise with the feelings re showing people round your house. Each showing is quite destructive even if people are nice, each lack of an offer on the house seems a type of rejection of your lifestyle. It's very hard to go through - and I've been there, most of last year! Jenny

Re: house sale

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well, it's sort of fallen through. The offer is still on the table, but the buyer has been making backing off noises.

I hate the whole business. Really hate it.

[paroxysma.livejournal.com]

*gasp* No photos of "the tip"? :(

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Sorry; for once I didn't take the camera with me.

I was afraid, what with all that heaving around of heavy furniture, that it might get damaged.