Unsurprisingly, the recent poor weather has hit local refuse collections. (After all almost every other service seems to have been affected.) One of the more unexpected consequences of the freezing temperatures has apparently been that blue boxes containing glass recycling have frozen to the pavement.

The clear sack collections should have gone back to normal today (Thursday) but the green waste collection service has been suspended until Monday 16 February. I suppose there can’t be much gardening going on at the moment anyway.

The council has issued the following revised timetable for wheelie bin collections:

• The Monday 2 February collection is rescheduled to Friday 6 February 2009
• The Tuesday 3 February collection is rescheduled to Saturday 7 February 2009
• The Wednesday 4 February collection is rescheduled to Monday 9 February 2009
• The Thursday 5 February collection is rescheduled to Tuesday 10 February 2009
• The Friday 6 February collection is rescheduled to Wednesday 11 February 2009

Unless things change again when the snow predicted for Friday arrives.