Unit CleanOut

 First thing we see outside Nana Beryl's old unit is the pile of hard rubbish uncollected.  It turns out the council boys missed this unit completely on their rounds, but for once we scored a bonus as Debbie and I doubled the size of the pile. They are due back any time to rectify the pick up. In the meantime we loaded up and made our way to the Op shop three times and there is still a lot of stuff to move. The Salvos were very pleased with the quality. If we had time to fiddle with Gumtree online, many sales could have been made.  To finish off, we took the bar stool to Burnside for my Mum to use around the kitchen bench area. She was hard at it making some early Christmas mint tarts, very tasty they were to. Now the whole cooking operation will be alot easier.  We made it back to Williamstown for another unload before Debbie went off to her Mum's in Werribee.  That's three retirement villages amd a nursing home one after the other, that has to be a record.

Pink Invasion

We woke up this morning to the usual coolness but the unusual pinkness that was allover the ground in clumps.  I went out there with gloves to see if I could clean up at least what was near our place. There were hundreds of dobs of pink foam as far as you could see.  I was half expecting an emergency response covid cleanup crew to come along with alarms blaring.  We could not figure out what this pink foam was.  Sometime later we could see in the distance coming towards us was a car with a trailer dropping pink goo at intervals as he drove.  Debbie could not help herself. She flagged him down in her dressing gown. It turns out the guy is marking the ground where he has driven as he sprays a poison over all the grassland. Your council rates doing some weeding and feeding.

                                           

Pink smudge away

Environmental Comparison Units

I don't think climate change is a problem as I reckon the climate has always been changing. Global Warming on the other hand is a convenient reason for many to get their budgets increased.  I think we waste too much money on some of this stuff.  There is no doubt there are problems because we are here. I have an idea about how to compare all things. If we had a simple number that ranked all things according to there environmental degradation then it may be easier to work on a particular issue.  I already know how to improve the world! Eat Less Exercise More! This is a compromise answer. You could get more nasty and suggest removing the fashion industry or the Pet industry or the Alcohol industry but that is not going to happen.  However back to my theory.  If you could add up units of certain commodities across the life of a product, meaning from design, manufacture, transport, installation, maintenance and disposal you could get a comparative score.  Recycling would yield a negative number to add in. The score could be the addition of a one for every litre of fuel used, and a one for every kilometre traveled and another one for every year it takes to break it down to dirt. A further one for each kilowatt of energy used etc.  A big job. I already suspect that batteries would be one of the worst consumer contributors.  For example what if you saw two toys, one that was a wind up with an ECU of 1045 and a battery operated one with an ECU of 18,567.  Maybe you wouldn't bother making the second one in the first place.

Windup fun

Arm River

I scanned photos of a walk we did late last century. The scanning was early this century and it was the walk that was last century. The digital output was not good. The mechanism then was to pull the photos thru a slot to do the scan. They came out with furrows across them. My current flatbed would do a better job so I did the whole lot again.  Some have been printed with the latest technology of the time in a panoramic style.  They still look pretty good.

For a change there are a lot more photos in this series however due to blog limitations I have a cut down set here. There are over 100 photos I have made into a separate film.