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Skips....
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Rachel | Report | 9 May 2007 11:35 |
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well one man's junk is another man's treasure! I've had the odd look in skips bur it's always builders rubble that I find so it stays put. |
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Howie | Report | 9 May 2007 10:57 |
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Rosi I think your dad has saved himself a fortune by recycling to go and buy a piece of wood is very expensive now I like skips to xxxHowie |
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Joan | Report | 9 May 2007 10:41 |
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Rosi, I know it's embarressing for some but it is Recycling ! My dad used to go on walks every Sunday and always came home with something......in Mum's opinion RUBBISH. I must have caught the bug; as I was on the school fund raising board and we started the town recycling paper and cardboard AND raised over £6000 for the school. My opinion is that if someone doesn't need it, someone else may x |
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Huia | Report | 9 May 2007 10:29 |
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A joinery or building business in town where we shop has a box out by the road with free firewood in. We often stop to look through it, get some quite good, handy bits of timber. It is well patronized. Suspect it is not just for firewood that people look. (Well we dont). |
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Rosi Glow | Report | 9 May 2007 10:28 |
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Was it just my dad? Or is it a common occurance, my dad could never walk past a skip. He would always stop and have a look in a skip for a “good bit of wood” and take it home because it would “come in handy“! My dad was happiest tinkering about in his shed, making window boxes, shelves and such like… |
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Rosi Glow | Report | 9 May 2007 10:27 |
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KempinaPartyhat | Report | 9 May 2007 10:27 |
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Oh thank goodness My grandad did the same One time he took me to the shop (i was 18months) we went on the tube!! he saw a skip and took from it a piece of wood!!!!! 7 foot long!!!!..we walked the 3 miles home with me carrying /dragging the loaf of bread we had gone for. He died 7 years ago and ...yes the wood is now being used by his grandson as a walk board for his narrow boat!!! in Bath.. The wood was found in London |
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