[Acrylic-bob]

TIPS?????? I would not pay the idle, feckless, incompetants with the holes out of washers.

A year ago they decided that I would not be allowed to have a wheelie bin because it was too much like hard work for them to wheel it the seven yards to the bin wagon. Instead, I was told that I would be given eight orange bags per month for my refuse, which I would have to "present at the kerbside for collection".

Which sounds fine in principle, but this does not take into account the barely literate halfwits employed to deliver the bags. Net result - there has been no delivery of orange bags for the last three months. On pointing out this dereliction of their duty to Cannon Street, I was told that the simple solution to the problem was to ask the delivery person for some bags. On informing the insufferably smug cow on the other end of the phone that, unlike the overwhelming majority of my neighbours, I actually worked for a living and so was not home when the bin men made their collections, I was told that there was not much else they could do.

If this is an example of "thirty years of service to the community", HBC has some damned funny ideas of what "Service" entails and it is no wonder that the borough is currently languishing as 51st most deprived in the bl**dy country!