At the tip

A day of hard graft. My one complaint about the builder was that all the rubble was left for us to deal with. His point was that as a commercial operation he has to pay to take rubble to the tip, then include those costs in his charges. We can take the rubble to the tip for free.

However, the rubble was put into very insubstantial rubble sacks that split when you so much as looked at them. So I had to transfer from the rubble sacks to much stronger old compost bags before loading them into the car. Come to think of it, I should have got him to use those compost sacks in the first place rather than buy rubble sacks.

Anyway, it took 10 sacks and two journeys to the tip to get rid of the rubble and one or two other bits of stuff that needed to go including the large sheets of cardboard seen here, an old printer and a couple of pairs of old trousers of mine.

In the afternoon it was a case of hoovering out the car to get rid of the rubble dust and then a quick trip to the allotment with the wheelbarrow containing 24 bricks and a large slab. That's a heavy load and I knew about it when I got there. Used the opportunity of having the barrow to shift more horse manure to our compost bins.

I enjoyed a long hot shower after that.