I mentioned my love of going to the tip earlier in the week. Being in Wiltshire allows me to go to another tip, this time the newly opened facility in Marlborough. Not many people I guess photograph a pile of rubbish for the tip, but this is special rubbish. As we are amalgamating two houses, we are of course doubling up on most things. A lot of the bigger items, tables, chairs, garden equipment and so on has been sold or given away. What we were then left with was duplicates of things no-one wanted, mugs, pans, toasters, cushions and the like. Many items went to small army of charity shops, leaving the battered or the unloved left. And so it was that my third trip to the tip of the day saw me pause for a moment near West Grafton to record the removal of all of the kitchen items to, well most went into the scrap metal skip. On first arriving at the Tip we bumped into Pete Bailey, a jobbing builder hereabouts, good worker and excellent for outdoor jobs like patio's. He was shovelling out a pick-up truck load of turf having started to dig an extension at his home. My third trip in the afternoon saw Pete Bailey there again, shovelling out soil this time. He's a grafter that's for sure. Striking up a conversation he was interested in the electrical cables we were sending to the tip - they've gone to a good home then.
Job done, this gave us ample time to pack a few more boxes. Where is it all coming from?
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