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such as this item about the "green dot" on packaging....we do them...and then they appear elsewhere.
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And then there is the recyclable packaging that you can't recycle because your local authority won't allow you.
It is very confusing, isn't it?
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Now that we are buying and eating more bread with seeds in how do we tell if it's mouldy or just pumpkin seeds.
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It is quite annoying that only HDPE (1) and PET/PETE (2) can be recycled in most kerbside recycling schemes. At the very least, allowing PP (5) to be recycled would cut out a lot of butter/margarine/yoghurt tubs ending up in landfill.
Thankfully a few authorities now have carton recycling facilities at household waste sites, but if they could be extended to kerbside recycling people would be a lot more reluctant to chuck them in with their landfill waste.
-oOo-
On the subject of Green Dot, why can't the scheme be introduced over here? As far as I can tell, it's a commercial scheme, so wouldn't require government interaction...
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Isn't this the sort of thing iPM could help with?
Lots of public property, usually art works, go missing each year.
Churches, parks, museums are particularly vulnerable.
The police and others help, but who scans THOSE web sites to see if they've been looking at something owned by the people of Chiswick, say, in a rich person's back garden or conservatory or in the large hotel that they attended as a wedding reception guest?
So if iPM covered such losses and the blog posted pictures and updates, maybe the churches wouldn't feel they had to keep their doors locked for quite so much of the time and public parks, buildings etc (including country houses) wouldn't be quite so expensive to run.
SO, to repeat, 3.53 minutes in, below, is a statue, Skipping Girl, that's gone.
Does it ring a bell?
PS The songs are nice, too. All shot in the exquisite Chiswick House grounds (where the 'forgotten Palladian masterpiece', the House itself, is to be found. (Quote from an approving web site))
I was going to post the web site, but now THAT has failed the HTML filter. So... the video is on YouTube, the track is Paperback Writer/Rain by the Beatles and the statue is at 3mins 53 secs in.
Apparently beautiful cast iron gates from the Park Road entrance, there, have also disappeared!
(And all the furniture from the House itself (But that was the then Duke in the 1890s))
Couldn't iPM do something here?
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I posted this earlier.
Do you think iPM would be interested in what seems to me to be home grown BBC unfairness?
He's still banned.
From Poshmissusmac.
I married macthered1 on Jan 1st. 2008. Clearly, by the time he was banned from the blog my influence on his manners had not been complete.
I think now he is ready to come back to the fold.
He talks approvingly of "comment(s) by White Rat'' of how amusing Big Sister is and says clearly (in an English accent) that Eddie Mair should not be impersonated by anyone.
But there doesn't appear to be an Appeals Procedure. The Moderators refuse to enter into any sort of dialogue and the Communities Team merely reiterate their decision. The ban appears to apply for all time on all BBC blogs.
Is there no test for 'time off for good behaviour', no limit to sentence in time or scope, no way that a defence can be heard? This can't be a question of resources, since BBC Complaints have been in extensive correspondence with Communities Team about the case.
It does seem to me that almost all of his offences are committed regularly by other blog members, apparently without the severe penalty that has been applied to him.
I am no Christine Hamilton (I am posher) nor Mary Archer (I am more beautiful), and I think my husband was clearly in the wrong. However, he has served a month's ban (now 4 months!) (to every BBC blog including the sports blog, where he used regularly to blather on harmlessly about someone called Lee McConnell). He now knows that the Moderators and the Communities team really mean their warnings, even when other bloggers appear to take them less than seriously. As far as I can make out, he has apologised to everyone concerned mille fois.
He is very forlorn about this, like the 100th sheep. Shouldn't we let him back into the fold? Or must he live out the rest of his life without the sun that the Beach offers, the deep thought lines that composing for the Furrowed Brow occasions, and the clear view on the world that contributing to the Glass Box affords?
I guarantee that my inflence on him has been such that he will now obey the rules absolutely. I shall make doubly sure that he does, and he knows the effects on the Moderators and Communities Team should he fall from (probationary or early release) grace, and he is very well aware of the sanctions l shall apply were he even to consider such a foolhardy step!
I would like to emphasise that his considering other blogs has made him realise, in a different way, how valuable the PM blog is. A part of its rarety is that it is wholly real, not a collection of quotes from the professionals attached to the medium - as some other media blogs appear largely to be.
He's heard nothing, I've heard nothing, we've heard nothing.
Should iPM start making waves over this?
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poshmissusmac / pmLeader / mac -
Not even an attempt at disguising your style?
It's a bit like Ken Dodd going on stage, doing a Ken Dodd routine and calling himself Jo Brand. The only difference is that Ken Dodd and Jo Brand can be interesting to listen to sometimes.
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Sorry foe being a bit dim, but what did he do?
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What about 'parents in their true lights'?
Try this one.
My dad in full sail
It needs the photo, and if you enlarge you can see the look of indignation on her face, that a mere minion was addressing her.
But more generally, there are bound to be letters they, parents, sent (to the Independent etc, things they said, etc which put them in the light that suited them best.
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pmm 5, Bugs are off.
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PCp 6, Jo Brand does a good John Sergeant and vice versa.
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poshmissusmac (5) - no
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D_McN (10) - Yes, I've noticed that. Has anyone ever sent their pics into Private Eye, I wonder?
pmL (8) - I bet you're not allowed anything sharp in your room.
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