The Last Bolts
Every time I go up the staircase these bolts annoy me.
Brass Painted Bolts on the Stairs
On the other side of the stairs, they have used Rawlbolts, but here they don’t have any identification on them. So I took one out to have a look.
Brass Painted Hexagonal Screw
This was not what I expected. But it will have to do for the moment.
The Boiler – Sorted
When nPower changed the gas meter, they told me to get the boiler serviced. Over the last few days, it has not been performing well and I’ve been cold, so yesterday I phoned a number on the boiler and the engineer rang me back this morning to say he could come round at 10:00.
He’s just left and the financial damage wasn’t too bad, considering that the boiler probably had never been serviced since it was installed. Nothimg else in this house has I suspect! And they’ve managed to lose all the manuals too!
I would certainly call Accurate Services on 020-8523-1121 or 020-8531-4411 again!
What Is It About Suffolk?
There is an item on BBC Breakfast this morning about GreenBottle, which is a new concept of milk bottle, that uses a papier mache outer container and a small amount of plastic to actually hold the milk. When you have finished the milk, you split the container, with the outer biodegradable shell going into the cardboard recycling and the inner container into the normsl household waste. Read the full story here.
If I look at what makes a good idea, it ticks a lot of boxes.
- It doesn’t expect the customer to make serious changes to their thinking.
- It would appear that it doesn’t mean there are large changes to manufacturing and distribution.
- Asda have not objected to stocking milk in these bottles. I’m always cynical about supermarkets. Their problem is they try to live up to a macho image.
- Customers like it.
- It is kind to landfill, even if the end user doesn’t recycle it.
But my initial question was, why has this been invented in Suffolk?
I do sometimes wonder, if it’s because Suffolk has always lived on the scraps government chooses to doll out to it and people in Suffolk get used to thinking about how to get round the problems that blight their lives.
As an example, railways in Suffolk have never received the investment they need. I was brought up partly in Felixstowe and it was a miserable place for a teenager, as to get to Ipswich was either a decrepit train, an occasional bus or a bike. In some ways, I wonder if that was all good training for my life now. You learned to plan journeys efficiently, until you could scrape enough together for a car.
Suffolk too is a very independent county and Suffolk people and businesses support each other. GreenBottle have partnered with the independent Marybelle Dairy to prove the concept of the bottle.
In other ways, it might not be what Suffolk has but what it doesn’t. Until the last couple of years, there was no university in Suffolk.
Does all of this push people to think for themselves? And dare I say it out of the bottle.
The Anonymous Widower 