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  • Cafe Strangebrew are just wonderful. Always think a big queue out the door is a good sign of a place to go ... ! by glasgowG41 (Fri 25th Dec 2020 4:29pm)
  • This is gorgeous. by glasgowG41 (Fri 25th Dec 2020 4:28pm)
  • I should have said, this was Pollokshields area. by glasgowG41 (Fri 25th Dec 2020 6:16pm)
  • I thought if it was an official thing it would have had logos and official stuff on it. I thought the driver was just doing it off his own back. Maybe I’m just gullible at Christmas ! by glasgowG41 (Fri 25th Dec 2020 7:52pm)
  • Polmadie and Dawsholm definitely do it. Not sure why GCC don’t make it really easy to recycle and really hard to contaminate recycling. Unfortunately if anything they are regressing rather than pushing it further. by glasgowG41 (Sun 27th Dec 2020 12:00am)
  • There are so many inconsistencies. Cardboard goes in blue kerbside bins with mixed recycling. But a seperate skip at Polmadie. But then the crusher isn’t working so you are to put it in the one that’s marked household waste no cardboard. Your tetrapack ? Drive up there, around the roundabout, past the smashed up fridges, past the glass recycling and look for the unlabelled odd shaped box on the left. Is it any wonder recycling levels are so criminally low ? For literally years recycling bins at my home have been used for general waste by neighbours / passers by too lazy to walk the extra 4ft to get to the steel bins. The council’s answer - it’s on private land, not our problem. The factors answer - we would need approval of the majority of the 120 flat owners to modify the bin areas (i.e. bugger off). So in short all our recycling bins (6 overflowing blue bins weekly) go into landfill as contaminated, my recycling goes in my petrol car to go into the recycling centre when I’m next passing, and all those with the power to make a change do not. Personally I would place a statutory obligation on councils to rectify refuse issues (lack of bins etc etc) within a couple of days, and an obligation on residents as to what they put in their own bins. by glasgowG41 (Sun 27th Dec 2020 9:18am)
  • I wonder whether public attitudes will shift as measures toughen in the weeks to come. Or the decades we are left paying for this crisis, prolonged by the likes of your neighbours. A friend of mine was left saying “no” to another parent at her daughters school who was inviting all and sundry to a sleepover, peddling the usual “I thought it didn’t count if they were under 12 / they are kind of in a bubble in class anyway” sort of lines. I would imagine in 5 years time, when we are staring down tax rises, swingeing cuts to public services and soaring levels of unemployment / poverty, it will be your wife who feels rather sheepish about her attitude to all of this now, rather than you. by glasgowG41 (Sun 27th Dec 2020 3:59pm)