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Thought this info from TDC would be of interest.

Here is your latest Recycling Update from Teignbridge.

Christmas Refuse & Recycling Collection Dates

Confused about when your bins will be emptied over the Christmas period? Find your revised collection dates.

Real Christmas Tree Recycling Collection Points

Find your nearest tree recycling point.

Christmas Cardboard Collection Points

We will be setting up temporary cardboard collection points across the district. Find your nearest cardboard collection point.

Extreme Weather Disruption

In the event of extreme weather, like snow or ice, we may not be able to reach you on your normal collection day. We will get to you as soon as we can but would ask that you leave your bins and boxes out until they are emptied. Major service updates will be posted on our website.

Thanks for the info Lynne, much appreciated.

Thanks Lynne for sharing this for the benefit of those who didn't receive the leaflet for whatever reason...

and for those who did but wanted a nice reminder - thanks Lynne

Say no more...

I didn't get a leaflet, so thanks Lynne.

For the record, I haven't received a leaflet either. What I got was an e-mail from TDC giving me the details I posted above.

Expect the same info will be in the Dawlish Gazette and Post next week.

Happy Christmas everyone.(Not so sure about it being a prosperous New Year though......).

Exactly Lynne. It makes one wonder where Cosey Fan Tutti got his leaflet from though. Slowly, slowly, catchy monkey... :-)

I didn't get a leaflet, so thanks Lynne.

It's actually 'Slowly, slowly catchee monkey.' It comes from the days of British colonialism when many far eastern countries were under British rule. Soldiers posted there used to try to catch monkeys to keep as pets and despite all their efforts were not very successful. Many natives spoke 'Pidgin English' which was a simplified form of English. They showed the soldiers how to do it by demonstrating a simple but effective method. This was to place a basket containing fruit in a clearing in the jungle where the monkeys lived. The basket would have a narrow opening and be tied to the ground. Monkeys would come along and stick their arms inside the basket to get at the fruit. The opening was just wide enough to allow for this but as the fruit was grasped the fist was too big to get out of the basket. The monkeys were so greedy that even when soldiers approached they would not release the fruit and thus be easily caught. Naturally this took patience on the part of the captor who would have to wait quietly until the monkey was snared. Thus the slow approach proved to be more effective hence the phrase.

This is now used to describe that a slow and patient approach to a problem with careful thought is often better than rushing in.

I'm glad you know how to use search engines. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070702095402AAjGj30 then click on 'Other Answers (5)'.

Thanks for the info. there are some good things on yahoo. thanks again & Happy Christmas.

Merry Christmas to one and all. Thanks for the info.

No thank you.

Ok. Thanks for the info though.

No thank you . you are so helpful ..,...........

Please allow me to sincerely, wholeheartedly and unreservedly apologise. I thought you were being sarcastic, but now I realise that you merely erroneously omitted a comma. So it's a Happy New Year from me to you and yours. Oh, and thanks for the info.

Thank you. all the best.

We had our black bin emptied this morning and the refuse collectors put a yellow sticker on the top of each bin giving information about the Christmas and New Year waste collection dates.

I imagine they wil be doing exactly the same thing to all the bins throughout the rest of this week.

Hi.., Last year the day after Christmas they came and collected all the waste from the bin. They did same on the next day of the new year also.

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