Could we begin a petition to get 10,000 ticks to present to the Government
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Our bin men are wonderful,
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- friendly, wave when they go by, chatty - I haven't yet given them a New Year box of biscuits because we haven't been shopping but they will get something. We have 3 lorries though
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In the late 1980s I had a
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- every morning around 8.30 I would fill 2 plastic supermarket carriers as she was chasing across the public footpaths - it was as though someone was following us and tipping rubbish along the route
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'cos there would be more each day. One man gave himself away several months after I stopped picking up by mentioning it to me
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- not someone I knew, nor did he own a dog
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- he had no need to make a comment but the mystery became solved. I reported him to the Parish Council
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. He must have been following to know that I was no longer picking up.
Rubbish still gets strewn along those footpaths but I don't walk them often.