some rambling

Today I have had a lot of rants.
I like to rant sometimes because it means that I can get all of the niggly thoughts out from inside of me. I'm not an angry person, I just get annoyed about some things from time to time, as I'm sure we all do.

Anyways.

Rant #1 - My dirty, smelly street.

So. I live at the nice end of the street, just about. We're kind of on a crossroads, and if you go left you come to my house which is near the start of the nice end of the road. If you turn left you walk into all kinds of horror. I rarely walk down the bad end of the road, I usually cut through the hospital, plartly because it's quicker and partly so I do not have to walk down the horrible end of the road. Now, the horrible end of the road is mostly horrible because there is a lot of rubbish there. The bins are all overflowing and the bin men won't even take half of them because they're so gross and contamined with awful things. Some of the bins don't even have lids and the ones that do are just wasting their time. As a result there is a distinct bin smell about that end of the street. Another thing is that sometimes, because I live in an avenue (which is supposed to be a kind of idyllic place, but let's not dwell) the pavements are lined with trees, which is lovely, until you get to a tree which has a bin placed right by it, so you have to brush up against the dirty filth to get to where you're going. And there's a mattress outside an abandoned house, which belongs to the bed base that's at the bottom of the road. Yuk.

This annoys me.

It's gross. And I don't like having to avoid parts of my street because it smells and makes me touch dirty bins.

What is also annoying is that at my old house which is about a 5 minute walk away we had endless trouble because we left our bin out the front of our house on the street as an alternative to having to carry the bin through our kitchen. I thought this was reasonable, but there are various rules about where it is acceptable to keep your wheelie bin. Now, our bins were not very dirty, not very obstructive, and not overflowing. They certainly did not emit an offensive odour to anyone who happened to pass by. But what happened was, we were threatened with some kind of fine if we did not remove our bin from the street.

I get this, I get that the bin was on the pavement and could have blocked some kind of two metre wide person from getting past, but what I don't get is that five minutes round the corner people are allowed to make the street minging with all their shitty bins and old mattresses, and that's perfectly fine.

This is not okay.

I am going to telephone, yes, TELEPHONE the council and demand that they sort it out. We pay them enough money and I have yet to see what they do with it apart from waste everyone's (my) time demanding the same piece of paperwork SEVEN TIMES. So I'm going to get my money's worth and make them work for it.

MY STREET WILL BE CLEAN.


Anyway. Rant #1 over.

I was about to write rants #2 and #3, and then I realised that I might cause offence if the wrong person/people ended up reading it or hearing about it, so I will not proceed with this. Rant #2 didn't make any sense anyway, I don't even know why it annoyed me so much. It Just Did. 

I would just like to say that, to anyone reading this, I don't like upsetting people. I don't do things in order to upset people. If I have done something to upset you I am sorry and that was not my intention.
I just like peace and love and understanding.

ANYWAY. Back to the rambling.
Rambling is fun.
I wish my sewing machine worked. It frustrates me that it doesn't because I want to sew stuff and I can't sew by hand, I have not the patience for this. To be fair I don't really have time for hobbies due to the harsh amounts of uni work, and my hours at work as well, but come July I will be able to have spare time again and resume my old hobbies (as well as having a social life).

I'm watching QI and it's making me want a big juicy pear.
Did you know that apples float and pears do not?

I would like also a swiss roll. Mmmmmmmm.
I'm trying to be on a diet, but it's so hard. It's only been a day and I've already been naughty. Grrrrrrrrr.

I'm going to shut up now.