skip diving leads to great things!

I e to take my cardboard to the tip/recycling centre and often have a nosey in the wood skip etc

working on a building site at a grand house i noticed a heated argument when the skip lorry turned up first thing in the morning the evening previous the gardener had thrown lots old pots and tools out and some plants as he was clearing some sheds our labourer had spotted them and was helping himself as the lorry turned up with the driver screaming at him that's ours once it is in the skip then all hell braking loose as the argument raged pots flying people ducking with me sitting on the scaffolding laughing then the gardener arrived with more items to add with both driver and labourer racing to claim the contents of the barrow at which point the gardener who was a large burly ex grenadier guard grabbed both of them stopping them in there tracks and proclaiming the skip to be loaded on the lorry and the labourer to follow him back to yet another shed which was full of vintage pots and other gardening items the gardener explained how annoyed he was with the owner of the house who had ordered all the sheds to be emptied of all the old items and the sheds to be flattened to make way for a swimming pool and if he could find a use for it he can have it all  the war of the skip was over with driver leaving believing he had won  and a labourer with the task of getting all his new finds home including a shed that was to big for his garden and the gardener who later that year got a new house and sheds at the other end of the estate        SKIPS BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER

So, having visited the skip several times at the house renovation, I am now on first name terms with the people working on the house. They are saving any wood they don't want (for my logburner) and having invited myself in I asked what they were doing with the patio slabs... rplacing them - joy of joy they are coming my way...still isn't letting me have the shed though! Not just yet! They are also working on other houses . . . . !

I was always told as a child: "If you don't ask - you don't know" and in the next breath told off for being nosey!   

Re bath: We are planning to change ours and assuming it comes out in one piece, have in mind a slightly different raised bed/border with a matching loo planter and trailing plants from the hand basin.

some hose for making tunnels

So not only did you make people happy but just think about what you saved from going into landfill - well done  .

I got some double glazing windows yesterday that were about to be skiped, they are now on the allotment waiting to be turned into cold frames!