skip
After years of moaning about the state of the garden we’ve finally got around to doing something.
We got a skip.
Becky and I, and an enthusiastic (likes outdoor work) and motivated (girlfriend just arrived in town from down south and she was a bit annoyed about him working today, so he was working fast) student-on-holiday-from-Otago-University (good qualification there in our opinion), filled the bin in just four and a half hours today.
There’s me:
I was about to launch into a full-on primate howl of triumph, but Becky snapped it a little early and the look on my face is more of my usual outdoors frown. (For some reason, it’s always brighter in the blue room.)
Anyway, in there are:
- a dead fridge;
- two kitchens (the one removed in 2002, and another one even older that we found behind the garden shed when we moved in);
- some stuff from the garden shed that hopefully the skip people will recycle;
- some trees (and their stumps);
- a rusty barbecue;
- lots of convolvulus and wandering willie; some blackberry;
- mega amounts of vegetative crap.
Did I mention the 96 steps all this stuff had to be taken down?
Heck
27 January 2006, 00:14 #
Ever seen Garden State, the movie? ;)
Alan
27 January 2006, 06:59 #
No. I’ve heard that it’s good though.
So you’ll have to explain its relevance… :-)
house monkey
27 January 2006, 09:28 #
I have that T-shirt too.
We should get a skip here, too much junk lying around. How much did yours cost?
Ben
27 January 2006, 12:21 #
That would have been fun carrying all that stuff down those stairs. Well who’s clever idea was it to buy a house that was no where near a road???!!
Alan
27 January 2006, 12:45 #
h_m: yeah, I imagine like you I got it when that first album came out. I must have a t-shirt cull though.
The large skips seem to be around $220 including disposal.
Ben: the house was a joint decision. The benefits far outweigh the difficulties: we hear very little traffic noise, and have a fantastic outlook. And if we only have to do this once every five years then that’s not so bad.
Ben
28 January 2006, 22:24 #
True, and most things you would get delivered, so it is someone elses problem getting them up the stairs! :)
Llew
30 January 2006, 10:46 #
Well done! Very satisfying i imagine. (no, actually, I know).
Heck
30 January 2006, 12:29 #
I’d die for a real garden that would need a thorough cleaning every five years, in fact when I had one I loved it (cleaning, pruning, planting, etc). As it is, I can fix the one I have in oh, ten minutes including raking all the leaves…
The movie is good, yes. Your photo and the sentence “I was about to launch into a full-on primate howl of triumph” made me recall a scene in it where they’re standing on top of something with garbage bags on them and… Well, kinda do that. Guess you’ll have to watch it. ;)
Llew
31 January 2006, 09:18 #
Nice product placement too, I hope Owyak gave you a discount.
Alan
31 January 2006, 18:28 #
I don’t think they’d be best pleased with their crappiest most rusty-arsed bin being shown on the web.
And they are taking rather a long time to collect it: it’s still there this evening, probably much to the neighbours’ annoyance, on whose carparks it sits…