Paint and Pensions
Yipee! I got my pension increase this week, it’s a fiver a week which is better than a poke in the eye with a cocktail stick. This was closely followed by my council tax that’s gone up by three pounds a week. But I am still two pounds a week better off than I was.
Filled my car up this week that’s costing me sixty-five pence per week extra but I am still one pound thirty five pence ahead. Oh! Oh! My gas is costing me another fifty five pence a week now – still eighty pence ahead though. Bread seems to have crept up a few more coppers but never mind I am still about fifty pence a week to the good. So if I look at this logically providing everything else only increases by less than 1p per week for the next twelve months I’ll be okay.
I got a reply from my MP regarding the disposal of scrap paint, I have been really impressed the way he has followed this up trying to get a straight answer from first the Norwich Council and then the Norfolk County council (see here we go again). In spite of his valiant efforts we have only received a letter containing a lot of waffle and absolutely no substance. Are we going to leave it there? You are damn right – we are. But for the the citizens of Norwich I have this message from the council. If you want to dispose of any old tins of paint you must take it to either Mayton or Kettringham. If you are travelling from the centre of the city this will be a round trip of about eighteen miles. For the average family car with the current price of petrol this will cost you over two pounds. The reason the council does not allow paint to be taken to Mile X is because it is hazardous, so be careful when next visit B and Q.
I’m not joking this a dangerous world.