Thursdays are the days our general waste bin gets emptied. It won’t be emptied again for 2 weeks. People have complained about this change from 1 week collection to 2 week collection, but bah, doesn’t really matter. In fact a local guy to us saw an opportunity. He comes round every fortnight and cleans out everyones bins for the bargain price of £2. Good lad.

This morning my Mum arrived to collect my daughter and drew my attention to a dog turd in a blue plastic bag laying in the middle of our road, just a little way down. “Dirty bastards” I commented, but gave it little thought, I was rushing around doing the school run.

This afternoon I was making a cup of tea and I realised we’d not thrown out our pumpkins from the weekend. I’ll do that now I thought. As I made my way outside and lifted the bin lid, I absentmindedly noticed that the man had been round and cleaned our bin. Good lad. I dropped the pumpkins in, and as they fell I noticed a blue plastic bag in the bottom of my bin. As one of the pumpkins landed on it and the turd exploded, splattering the bottom of my newly clean bin, I had second thoughts about the man. Obviously he’d put it in my bin after he’d cleaned it. I wouldn’t mind but I don’t even have a dog!

I’m sure he’ll enjoy chipping that off in 2 weeks time. I’m certainly not doing it.