We’ve had a day out! Agy has been on tour, it was such a beautiful day and out we went across to the middle of the island (ish). It feels so naughty when we are in lock down.
The island is looking beautiful, and we feel so lucky to live here.
However there is a reason for all this adventure. Rubbish. Lots of rubbish. Offcuts of plasterboard, tile offcuts, wood offcuts, random left over plastic piping, metal piping, you name it, building materials galore… all little pieces, all really bulky. We have reached the stage where we have a full garage, but not enough for a skip. We also had some garden rubbish, but I will write about that another time.
This is where Agy steps up and becomes a van, just a normal van. We have our permit to visit the recycling centre (you can’t just rock up in a van, you have to have a special permit unless you want to pay commercial rates), we have a plaster board disposal permit (who knew such things existed?), and we have a booking, as numbers of people need to be controlled to comply with restrictions and social distancing. We planned our route, all 15 minutes of it and off we went.
I have to say it is a bit more exciting in a van, and if you have plasterboard, even more so! We did the normal drop off of all the bits in different containers, but then we had to do the plasterboard. First, this meant entering the commercial area, hand the permit to the man in the office, and then swing round onto the weighbridge. We are weighed in, and he records our weight. Once we have dropped off our plasterboard we are supposed to come back and be weighed again; under 20Kg and it’s free, over 20Kg and we have to pay. Luckily we were well under!
While we were out we popped into B&Q for more supplies – this time for the garden. The old fences need some protection, so the creocote is stocked, and somehow a few solar fairy lights make their way into the trolley. Who doesn’t need a bit of fairy light twinkle in their life?
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