"David in Normandy" wrote in message
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"Farm1" please@askifyouwannaknow wrote in message
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How irritating. Perhaps the jobsworth thinks that all gardens must be
tiny although what garden refuse fits into most car boots these days
isn't much at all..

Here in France, the capital of bureaucracy, it is now necessary to take
rubbish to a local official first, who makes a list of everything you
want to discard. You are then issued with an official document to take to
the local rubbish point where your rubbish is checked against the list.
However, they don't take lots of items, so people are left wondering what
to do with old TV sets and refrigerators. As someone commented recently on
being turned away - "Here comes the woods...". Ridiculous.
--
David

Our friends in the Dordogne leave stuff at the local rubbish
bins.......everyone in the hamlet does this and there is a thriving
'exchange's going on. Mike found an antique set of jeu de boule recently
that someone had left the~))
Jenny