Garbage
We had a relatively quiet weekend, although Rebecca was at Luna Park all day on Saturday with friends and Laura and Caroline were off socialising as well. We also had Jane, Clive and Emily come over for tea on Sunday afternoon, along with Jane's dad who is over for a month.

So with not much to report, here's some rubbish information!

We were very surprised - and impressed - to have our weekly garbage collection (which is on a Monday) turn up on both Christmas Day and New Years Day. They also seem to have quite an efficient system here, with just one driver of the garbage lorry who stops at the kerbside and uses a mechanical arm to pick up the bins and empty them into the side of the truck. What's more, the truck is split into 2 sections, so one for the general rubbish and the other for either bottles & plastic, or paper & cardboard, which are collected on alternate weeks.

We have 3 small bins to split the rubbish and we thought at first they would be too small to cope, but we haven't had any problems yet, even over Christmas, although that was helped by the continued collections then. There are also 6-monthly collections of vegetation or other general rubbish, so you begin to see these piles forming along the roadside in the week or so before collections are made.

The general rubbish collection can range from sofas and chairs, to washing machines and other rubbish that won't fit into the standard bins and as we have a collection next week, the piles are appearing around the local streets. It gives you the opportunity to have a rummage and reclaim anything that you might want from a house that is throwing stuff out - and people do - before the collection lorry comes around and clears the streets.