ASDA JOINS THE POLY BAG MAFIA

ASDA Hollingbury
Originally uploaded by Dominic's pics

Gimme strength! ASDA has decided as of this week to join the poly bag mafia. Get this - you go in the door and they have not one but three big 'Recycle your ASDA poly bags here' bins. They have had for over a year so once a month or so I have remembered to take up all my poly bags and put them in their bin. That is supposed to make me feel I've saved the planet though we all know poly bags are less than 0.1% of the oil problem in the world. Ok I'll go along with this nonsense - it keeps the kitchen cupboard tidier. So today I take up - and I am not joking, a whole shopping trolley of bags as I am tidying out my kitchen this week. I go in the door, I post them all into their bin and I do my shopping. When I get to the checkout the operator asks Do you have your own bags with you? Well I did have but I posted them in your poly bag bin at the entrance - isn't that what it's for? Oh poly bags are an under-the-counter item now, I'm afraid she elaborated. A what???? I want a poly bag for my shopping not a porn movie! You really need to buy reusable ones at 5p each. That'll be bloody likely - the shopping is 30% dearer than last year and I just posted 200 bags in your bin so give me some of your under-the-counter free bags now! If they are going to start charging for bags but not rewarding for the ones you bring back then it doesn't add up. I am happy to recycle all my bags but my handbag is already over-full with nappies, changes of clothes etc so I sure don't want to have to carry 10 polybags everywhere I go in case I happen to need to pop into a supermarket.
I'm off to Tesco - well till they get stupid too :-(

THOMAS'S DALEK

Invasion of the daleks
Originally uploaded by PhylB

I'm beginning to wonder how Thomas ever managed to live in a flat - he's such a garden person. First he bought a chainsaw to attack some old trees, then he bought some fruit trees and over the last few days a cultivator, hedge trimmer and some bulbs and seeds. He spends hours at the local nursery too. Yesterday afternoon Marcel went out to the shops, he was back less than 5 minutes when Charlotte decided to go too - but when she went out she came face to face with a dalek, about as big as herself - he'd obviously come up the path in the interim 5 minutes.
Thomas was thrilled with his new toy. Dad will no doubt have some comments on it, I am sure!

WHY SCOTLAND CAN NEVER SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT

Wednesday 20 June, 2007
Originally uploaded by Mellie*

I was in Primark yesterday buying some pyjamas for Léon. I had noticed the last time I was in that Primark had switched from plastic to brown paper bags in an environmentally conscious move. Once the shop assistant had finished packing the pyjamas into my nice brow bag, he then filled it with other identical bags. Huh? He explained that all week in the pouring rain people had been complaining that they had got half way down Sauchiehall street before their envirobag had disintegrated leaving their new clothes in a soggy puddle at their feet, so were now trying to cover shoppers by giving them enough bags to get back to their car even on a rainy Saturday in Glasgow! So plastic may be out but each shopper is now using 3 times as many bags!