A Tenuous Connection...........

...................50 years ago today saw the publishing of the Beeching Report which resulted in many of Britain's Railway lines being closed. We are really lucky in that we still have a Train station and a reasonably good service. My picture shows work that is going on in the village to maintain and strengthen one of the road bridges crossing the railway lines. The actual bridge can only just be glimpsed on the very far right but the picture there would have been only of traffic cones and as the lane is very narrow, I thought it better to show this !!

Moving away completely from trains - in this area we are blessed (!) with the provision of three waste bins - one black for household rubbish, one green for paper, bottles etc and one brown for garden waste. It has been decreed that we must now pay £25 per annum for the brown one to be collected.
No real problem but it is an extra expense for the not so comfortably off.
I digress (nothing new!!) - I noticed on the instructions. received with the acknowledgement of payment. that one is not allowed to put things like potato peelings, cabbage leaves and the like in this brown bin, the contents of which are used to make compost. Now when I had a garden big enough to have a compost heap, these were things I always included and which I thought were good. So, just being an awkward sod, I rang the Waste Disposal Dept. to find out why they were excluded.
Spoke to a very nice young man who told " You cannot put anything in that bin that has been in the house - that must go in the household waste bin" - I repied " so if I peel my potatoes or scrape my carrots or de-leaf my cabbage or pod my peas in the garden, I CAN put those in Garden Waste bin?" Long pause at the other end of the line! Then " Do you know,I really don't know, I will have to ask my superior - I will come back to you". Are you surprised to learn that I have heard nothing more!

The weather is mostly cloudy with a few patches of sun and a very few flakes of snow around lunchtime - I counted about 20"! - and temperature at 2 deg. C. Could be worse.

As usual, click lower case "L" to enlarge.

Enjoy the rest of the afternoon and evening.