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I’m not usually one for poetry, but I wrote this a few years ago when our bins started to be emptied only once a fortnight. This upset me. A lot. It’s written in the Glaswegian dialect, but I think you should be able to understand it anyway.
On Recycling
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I love it! So funny, and I’m so impressed at the dialect! Not gobbledegook like dialect often is- o can actually hear you saying this!
Brava, Nettie! (to get you in the mood for Italy…)
Grazie mille! xxx
I liked it Nettie. Do you actually talk like that? Hadn’t even thought about it until I read this.
Not really. I am quite ‘broad’ but not as bad as that!
This is funny Nettie 😀 And I totally agree: the clenny man should come every week!
Ha! Thank you xxx
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Brilliant! I have been hearing about the bin collection from my family in the UK. What a poor service offered now.
Our small village gets a x2 weekly collection. If it falls on a bank holiday, no problem. Christmas day? Bins are still emptied. We pay approx £89 per year…yes, year for this service.
I don’t know, I ask you not to show off about the weather and you go and show off about your refuse collection. I could go off you, you know… 😉
*hangs head in shame* 🙂
Love the poem and I only needed a few assistances from translation services;-) I can’t beat Glynis Smy but I must say we have weekly collections here in Leicester UK and they collect a recycling box weekly too.
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