Wheelie Bins & Good Neighbours

Slightly off-topic today: this is something I saw in a garden last week, and it's so wonderful that I want to share it with you.

Wheelie bins: love 'em or hate 'em, they are here to stay. They are big, they are unwieldy, they certainly ain't pretty (!) but most of us have them, and we all have to find room for them in our gardens.

It's always a compromise: generally speaking, we generate the majority of our non-compostable waste in our back gardens, but they are emptied at the fronts of our houses, so we have to choose: do we position them in the back garden, making them easy to fill - or in the front garden, making them easy to put out for the bin men?

Many people compromise by putting them in the side way, where they are an eternal nuisance, as they obstruct the passageway, and you still have to carry waste to them, and you still have to drag them out into the front, on bin day.

But take a look at this:

To explain: the bins belong to the house on the left, and they are sitting in the small alcove formed by the projecting chimney-breast of the house on the right, whose side access is on the other side of their property.

The line of edging slabs shows the boundary: the house on the right has a hedge, and has this tiny space left, which they can't access without going onto the left-hand house's drive.

So it was unused.

The people in the left-hand house asked if they could use the alcove to store their wheelie bins, which happen to fit just perfectly into the space.

The neighbours agreed, so the people on this side put down some slabs to keep it neat and tidy, and lo! and behold, nice neat wheelie bin storage, easy to pull them out and move them down the drive for collection, and they are not blocking the narrow side entrance.

Isn't that just the nicest thing?

A tiny bit of generosity on one side, and a lot of gratitude on the the other!

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