they can't grit everywhere, hotham road is a nothing street so i wouldn't expect it to be. but i don't think it's unreasonable to expect the city's main shopping streets to be cleared during the week before xmas.

not to fussed about the paths now, but would the council please get off their @rses and empty the over flowing dog bins!!

I know they should get off their @rses to sort out the new bin collections. We have an overflowing blue bin and an empy black and brown bin and another 5 days before it gets emptied. HCC need to change the collection and have the (now overflowing every fortnight)blue bin emptied every week and the (now empty except dog poo bags cos all the bins are overflowing )black bins emptied every fortnight.

For me it’s a question of priorities, such as a BIG screen TV in the city centre playing to drunks and people that have nothing better to do.
Or keep the roads/paths clean and clear. Mmmm let me think about this one.

Build a big stupid water feature on Spring Bank that never has anything other than urine and litter in it.
Or help the aged and lesser mobile live a normal life. Mmmmm

Promote a ‘COG’ as an emblem of the city. Or?

Spend thousands on fireworks every year. Or?

Spend thousands on Christmas lights. Or?

Let a big fat East Hull MP rip us off by claiming for household repairs etc. Or?


I think you get the gist of my ‘rant’

Should have tried walking to school in 1962/63,the big freeze.No fancy protective clothing then,walked to school with wellies on a size too big,big marks round the top of our legs when we got there.It was either that or sannies with cardboard to cover the holes.Remember standing on monkey island and looking at the frozen up River Humber,it was like the Arctic.So much for winter rugby.

As Hull White Star says our road is very bad still ice on it now ps white star nice xmas lights p

Most of it is packaging which is for recycling. My hubby received new shirts for work, have you seen the packaging just one shirt comes with, thats not me creating waste, thats manufacturers overkill.

So do what I do - dump it back on the supplier.

I've come seriously close to being banned from my local Morrisons, just for stripping packaging off at the checkout. When the lady on the till called the manager, he asked what I was doing. When I asked him why Morrisons felt the need to shrik-wrap a swede, he backed right off.

A shirt comes with a bit of cardboard to stiffen it, a couple of clips or pins and possibly a celophane bag - how many shirts diod he get FFS?

5, thats 5 bits of cardboard, 5 bits of cardboard under the collar, 10 cardboard bits around the sleeves, 5 cellophone wrappers, at least 5 clips and pins in each shirt making at least 25 clips.

Thats a lot of packaging for 5 work shirts.

That would, in total, struggle to fill an average jacket pocket

If that's what's tipped your wheelie bin over the edge, you're looking in the wrong place

Not being emptied for 2 weeks especially over the Christmas holidays has tipped it over the edge.

Surely you don't expect the HCC to come all the way to Nebraska just to empty your wheelie bin - think of us poor council tax payers lol!!!! grannyfan cindy, at least able to toddle along to work still, in spite of the winter.