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Hi. How are you doing today. Sorry for your privacy. Your blog looks fascinating and kindly Dm if you’re interested being in a sugar relationship 😊
Thank you for your kind comments, that's very much appreciated although you realise that most of my content is reposted from others. I'm not interested in a relationship, but I'm flattered to have been asked.
Have a great weekend.
The black JCB socks were popular. 🧦
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Morning lads, early one today 😜
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Come from X to make all you weak at my knees 😈
Give this fit hi vis workie lad a follow!
First taste of litterpicking
Today I was on annual leave and needed something to do. So what better way for a binman to spend his time than doing some unpaid manual labour. Inspired by walkamongyou, posts from worklad12 and more recently content from hiviz-pup and cleanthestreet (alongside discussions with other lads), I went litter picking.
I put on my PPE for the day. An orange hi vis t-shirt and trousers (which were tucked into my socks), my triple black Nike Air Max 95s and also an Adidas big logo hoodie and cap for the journey. I left home and got to the bus station early, leaving me time to head to Greggs and grab a few pastries. I had a steak bake and energy drink on the bus.
Upon arriving, I set off towards a park I'd been to before for a summer walk. Except this time, it wasn't for a leisurely stroll, it was to graft. I reached an underpass and put my Adidas clothes in my bag, now showing off my fresh high skinfade which complements the look well.
I took out my litter picker and first bin bag, put my gloves on and got to work. Immediately I noticed the attention - or lack of - I was receiving. Either disdain, or treated as if I wasn't there at all. Either way, it felt great! From the underpass, I crossed over a bridge, went through some car parks, some bus stops by the roadside and then got to the park itself. I emptied my first sacks in public bins here, filling two up completely. I saw a few lads in dirty hi Vis and we nodded at each other - the first positive attention I'd got today and confirmation of that unspoken bond between workies.
Continuing on, I went to a lake area with lots of cyclists and joggers who paid no attention to me. I briefly sat down to have a sausage roll, but otherwise I had work to do. My route then started to get even more visible - grass verges between busy roads and eventually I ended up on a set of roundabouts on a busy A road. This was the highlight of the day - so visible. I ensured my 'Community Payback' lanyard (a gift from a good workie mate) with my work ID was visible as I grafted on the roundabouts and worked down the side of the A road back towards my starting point. It hadn't been cleared up in a while.
Eventually the road ran out and I cut back into the park. I went a different route this time - coming across lots of benches with discarded takeaway boxes. A few chavvy lads said hello in passing. I got back to the city centre, deposited some overflowing refuse sacks and had about 30 minutes to spare. I slowly worked towards my bus stop, picking in an area filled with shoppers that also led through a market area. Lots of judgmental looks here, double takes at my lanyard particularly. I went to the nearest bin and deposited my last sack.
In total I recovered 9 full sacks of waste. As I stowed my picker into my bag and walked over to the bus stop, some of the people who had been leering at me seemed a bit miffed that they'd have to spend the journey near a lowly litter picker who stank of sweat. What a shame.
Let me know if you enjoyed this post as I've never done anything like this before. Cheers!
When you work in an office or similar, "outside in all types of weather" is just a turn of phrase. When you start working outside, you quickly learn that it is anything but.
Recently around here we have days where there is 10-15° difference between daytime and nighttime, with wind and rain added to the mix occasionally. Since I do shift work,I either end up starting out while it's still dark, or finishing up when it's already dark.
This means that no matter how you dress, you end up either freezing your ass off or sweating your balls off for half of the shift. Actually, with all the sweeping, trash picking and cart pushing the latter is bound to happen anyways.
Workgear is supposed to protect you, but there are limits, doubly so if the company you work for is a cheapskate. Raingear especially is often so sweaty and cumbersome that most of us don't bother. You get wet anyways.
At least snow is more and more rare these days. Nothing gets you as cold and wet and as fast as snow melting into your work clothes as you are shovelling that shit away.
I spend a lot of time on trash picking duty this year. Apparently there is an incentive to keep the walkways in the district cleaner, so there has to be more 'litter patrols', and I am a regular pick for the picker job. I don't mind it for the most part. I like to be on the move, and carrying a trash bag and a picker around is less cumbersome than pushing a cart.
When it's a nice sunny day, you can even pretend you are just out on a stroll - as long as you ignore the way other people look at you when they see you bend down to pick up their trash.
When you get one of those cold, grey winter mornings though, then there is no pretending. Everyone is either still in bed or in their car on the way to an important job while you are out here, digging something smelly and rotten out of the hedge they casually threw it into.
Always that smile.