Two visits down, probably two to go. I’m spreading my custom around three local
facilities – two Tescos and an Asda – because I don’t want to be tagged as some
kind of bottle-sniffing freak by the CCTV monitor guys. I imagine them going “Him again?” and opening
a book on the exact timing of my next visit.
Tuesday, 17 July 2012
The Meaning of Bardrainney (Inver)
As far as I can remember (I can’t find my copy), ‘The
Meaning of Liff’ does not offer a word for ‘the sensation of stale wine
trickling down your sleeve at the bottlebank’. After this morning, I needed such a word, and after
a cursory gazetteer scan I lighted on the above, which I think does the job. Although it may be too long, and maybe
insufficiently expletable. I did
consider Zouch (Notts), Wetwang (W. Yorks) and Sturry (Kent).
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Wetwang is already in Liff and means something quite different!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure it does! Now I've got to look out my copy.
DeleteRedditch would do?
ReplyDeleteDo you not have kerbside recycling collections where you are? Spread them out amongst the neighbours' boxes if you must, but evidence of a party seems quite widespread around here. It must be ten years since I went to a bottle bank.
ReplyDeleteWe do, but they don't take bottles. Besides, I enjoy the bottle bank, especially when they smash.
DeleteOur local Tesco has a huge recycling machine - and it always has a great long queue of people recycling boxloads of bottles.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if that means that it's different up north... or round just around Tescos
The huge machine sounds interesting, we just have bins with holes in them. As for the great long queues - not saying anything, but I have some experience of Cheesetown ...
DeleteBottle-sniffing? Sniffing? As in inhaling through one's proboscis?
ReplyDeleteWhy?
The party sounds a great success it must have been if Mig was there, now there's a person who might sniff an empty wine bottle (no offence intended to Mig) but she strikes me as one similar to myself who would be disappointed at the emptiness.
Hello Zig. I can only surmise as to what goes on in the heads of CCTV watchers.
DeleteIt was a success, Mig was indeed there but I'm sure didn't encounter any empty bottles.
Kerbside recycling? That's certainly not hit Norfolk. It's the bottle bank for us too. And we save up for weeks and take dozens of bottles every time. We're brazen.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, I like the bottle bank. It's smashing.
ReplyDeleteI politely didn't sniff the empty ones and instead, engaged with the others of which there were many! Very nice too.
ReplyDelete(I've been spreading my loads of charity shop offerings across town - seven shops - so they don't think I've been mugging bag ladies)