We had our bins emptied early Saturday morning – the council had been advising everybody to put them out as usual on Thursday, but just to leave them out until they managed to get round.
I thought that presumably expensive Saturday working might just have been a wise precaution – with the strong possibility of yet more snow to come there must be a risk of rubbish piling up until after Christmas unless they took every opportunity to remove it.
But this morning it was announced on local radio that there will be collections over the Christmas & New Year Bank Holidays, no changes to the usual schedules at all.
Perhaps this efficiency comes out of the agreement between us & Staffordshire Moorlands. I just hope that it is not being bought at the cost of reductions in pay for the contracted out staff who do a heroic job in such awful conditions.
