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[LMcD]

Is it unreasonable to expect somebody who's presenting part of British Music Map to have at least heard of Rubbra even if he hasn't heard any of his music?

[oddoneout]

Is it unreasonable to expect somebody who's presenting part of British Music Map to have at least heard of Rubbra even if he hasn't heard any of his music?

These days, yes.

[LMcD]

These days, yes.

In that case, I'm glad I didn't mention the same presenter's horrible mispronunciation of 'Rheinlegendchen' a couple of weeks ago.

[Jonathan]

I'm assuming there wasn't anything by Sir William Sterndale-Bennett?

[LMcD]

I'm assuming there wasn't anything by Sir William Sterndale-Bennett?

I'm afraid not - the Bennetts were, however, represented by Richard Rodney.

[oliver sudden]

In that case, I'm glad I didn't mention the same presenter's horrible mispronunciation of 'Rheinlegendchen' a couple of weeks ago.

I forget if I’ve told this one here, but my partner and I were once sitting at breakfast in what was then her Berlin flat listening to the station we call ‘love-hate radio’ when we heard a piece back-announced as ‘Fett’, with excellent German pronunciation.

Unfortunately it was not the orchestral piece by our friend and colleague Enno Poppe, but the second movement of the Debussy Nocturnes.

[LMcD]

I forget if I’ve told this one here, but my partner and I were once sitting at breakfast in what was then her Berlin flat listening to the station we call ‘love-hate radio’ when we heard a piece back-announced as ‘Fett’, with excellent German pronunciation.

Unfortunately it was not the orchestral piece by our friend and colleague Enno Poppe, but the second movement of the Debussy Nocturnes.

[french frank]

Do other authorities make you jump through hoops in order to take recycling stuff to the council tip? My brother drove me to our local tip yesterday to dump 5 paint tins and an aerosol paint spray for which I had to:

Book my visit in advance online for an available 15-min. slot, day and precise time
Give my name, address and email address
State the type of vehicle I will be arriving in (car, van) and registration number
What is to be recycled? We do not accept asbestos or plasterboard
The car registration number feeds directly into the agency’s records and details of my brother’s grey Honda Jazz were automatically filled in.

The confirmation email included further instructions (in red text):
You must bring photo ID and proof of residence to use the tip, we'll accept:
photo ID, travel card, or student ID
council tax, utility bill
Arrive 5 mins before your slot starts and wait to be directed to the correct recycling area when a space is free. You must arrive in the vehicle you registered when booking. The vehicle registration will be checked and only booked vehicles are allowed.

In fact, when we arrived I said we'd booked the 12pm slot and we were waved over to the appropriate receptacle for paint.

[LHC]

Do other authorities make you jump through hoops in order to take recycling stuff to the council tip? My brother drove me to our local tip yesterday to dump 5 paint tins and an aerosol paint spray for which I had to:

Book my visit in advance online for an available 15-min. slot, day and precise time
Give my name, address and email address
State the type of vehicle I will be arriving in (car, van) and registration number
What is to be recycled? We do not accept asbestos or plasterboard
The car registration number feeds directly into the agency’s records and details of my brother’s grey Honda Jazz were automatically filled in.

The confirmation email included further instructions (in red text):
You must bring photo ID and proof of residence to use the tip, we'll accept:
photo ID, travel card, or student ID
council tax, utility bill
Arrive 5 mins before your slot starts and wait to be directed to the correct recycling area when a space is free. You must arrive in the vehicle you registered when booking. The vehicle registration will be checked and only booked vehicles are allowed.

In fact, when we arrived I said we'd booked the 12pm slot and we were waved over to the appropriate receptacle for paint.

The short answer is 'NO'. At my local refuse tip/recycling centre, you just turn up and drive in. The only requirement is that you show proof of residence (usually my Council Tax bill) at the entrance, and then you get waved in.

[vinteuil]

Do other authorities make you jump through hoops in order to take recycling stuff to the council tip?

... the rules here very similar to FF's # 1988 - but we think the system works very well. The Hammersmith déchetterie is actually over the river in Wandsworth, and we get a childlike pleasure in seeing our car's registration number flashed up in big green lights on the entrance slipway when it has been recognized by the cameras ...


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[Old Grumpy]

My daughter used to live in Wimbledon. Their allocated local recycling/disposal centre* was inside the South Circular Road which meant a congestion charge was levied for each trip.


*Quite possibly the same as Vints' above

[vinteuil]

My daughter used to live in Wimbledon. Their allocated local recycling/disposal centre* was inside the South Circular Road which meant a congestion charge was levied for each trip.


*Quite possibly the same as Vints' above

... I don't think Wandsworth is in the Congestion Charge zone. But it could be in the Low Emissions / Ultra Low Emissions Zones (LEZ/ULEZ), and if the car was non-compliant, there might've been a charge.

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[gurnemanz]

My daughter used to live in Wimbledon. Their allocated local recycling/disposal centre* was inside the South Circular Road which meant a congestion charge was levied for each trip.


*Quite possibly the same as Vints' above

Congestion charge is only for central London. We can get as far as Pimlico before it starts. May be ULEZ charge if they have a diesel car.

[french frank]

But paper garden waste sacks, I learn, are up from £1 each to £2.75. I don't begrudge giving money to the council. Someone has to.

[smittims]

I'm astonished (but hardly surprised, this century!) at the Kafkaesque revelations of FF's message. I suppose there is some reason why they want all those details, but I do wonder what happens ot all the records they keep of all the people who go.

Here we used to have a free garden and waste food collection every two weeks. Now you have to pay to have your bin emptied. Heigh-ho, back to the compost heap at the bottom of the garden, with waste food which would attract vermin going in the black bin. A pity, since we'd reduce the fortnightly contents of our black bin to very little. But I didn't like the council's pretence that the garden waste scheme is a new idea, air-brushing the existence of the free scheme.