[bigtater]

took a leaf out of muntys book today
a couple of streets away theres a house being done up.                      just outside there is a big skip whith all sorts of smelly rubbish and dodo in it .              but i spied some wood stuck out so went and nocked on the door and asked if i could ave a root through it i told im it was for patchin up bits on allotment .
oh I  he says i used to that sort o thing elp thy sen
i made three trips and must ave got about 30 or 40 quids werth of timber
 

[fluffypebble]

And saved some landfill in the process.

I must admit that since reading Munty's advice columns I have been looking at skips as I have driven past to see if there is anything worth stopping for.

[ytyynycefn]

To the tune of "Zippedy-doo-dah"...

Skippety doo-dah
Skippety yay
My, oh my, it's a bin diving day
Plenty of cr-ap coming my way,
Skippety doo-dah
Skippety yay!

Sorry... It's the Y Ty Yn Y Cefn skip diving song, our nipper loves it!  We quite often go for a drive in our skanky old Land Rover to see what we can find - we got a nicely battered ammo box for OH's rat bike the other week.

[muntjac]

lmaooooooooo i love the song .

[muntjac]

just remembered i was on freecycle with that lady about  aviary panels n let her into my secret places for looking for pallets lolo , she has joined the site now  as i post anything or see anything i can reply to on thier i give them the address for this merry band of skip divers    

[jane1264]

When every I go up our tip I'm always amazed by the things people are putting in the skips up there - when we went up this weekend to dump our rubbish from digging the garden - who put's nice short wooden posts round a flower bed and then concretes them in so that when they all rot you have to dig out the entire bed to get all the concrete out to replace them!  Anyway moving on - this generated loads of rubbish so went up the tip to dump it - our tip men will try and retrieve the good stuff from the skips and sell it - there's always loads of golf clubs (some of them good quality expensive ones according to the OH who knows a bit about these things), this week there was loads of hand made pottery that looked very similar to the type of thing my mum pays a fortune for, a 6ft pine dresser with really nice, intact glass doors on the top (on it's way to our kitchen now - I've been looking for one of those for ages, cost me a tenner!), videos, books, chairs all sorts.  And that's without the electrical goods that they can't sell!

Jane

[ytyynycefn]

Our kitchen stereo was a freebie off the tip   Nice 5 CD changer, aux in for me iPod etc      

[Losttheplot]

Mel, what does your screen name mean?
Sorry to be thick just a nosy bird

[ytyynycefn]

It's the name of my hovel - Y Ty Yn Y Cefn means "The House at the Back" in Welsh - we've got the back half of a house that was divided into two a few years back.  It's pronounced just like "A tea an' a coffee" except for the coffee bit, which is "kevn".

Hope that makes sense!

[muntjac]

mines  " maison lunatique " wonder why ?

[ytyynycefn]

The alternative was "Castell Bwnsi" - or Bouncy Castle  

[Losttheplot]

Thanks mel  just  been curious of that for a while but too shy to ask!!!  Our house should be similar to Munty's though at the moment!!  full of blooming nutty workmen!!!

[jane1264]

It's the name of my hovel - Y Ty Yn Y Cefn means "The House at the Back" in Welsh

and I thought it was just that you liked random letters!

Jane

[ytyynycefn]

Yeah - I just nutted the keyboard one day, and that's the result  :twisted:

[John]

Yeah - I just nutted the keyboard one day, and that's the result  :twisted:

I remember seeing you arrive on the member list and thinking 'another damn spammer'  so off to admin page to delete you only to realise you weren't