A litre, per metre, per hour. Try saying that one when you’re pissed. Now remember it and I’ll come back to it shortly.
Looked on the web over the weekend at a UK map showing the areas in pretty colours where council services are going to be cut, and it also shows what percentage of services are going to be cut in these counties / areas.
We’re based in Lincolnshire - so what’s in store for one of the largest counties in the country? Hey we don’t have a motorway yet, but let’s be honest we yellow bellies are still in awe of that stuff called electric which comes down little cables you know.
Street lights are a little scarce, litter bins are as rare as a tax rebates, and certainly in my area the local planning people are all ex Gestapo officers, whose complete vocabulary consists of “NO” preceded and followed by a sharp intake of breath and a scratch of the head. But you've got to remember, we help to provide the country’s potatoes and wheat crops so you do need to put up with us Lincolnshire-ites.
I regularly travel down the A1 to our great capital city and beyond, into the southern wilderness, and I always grin when I pass the big sign on the side of the A1 travelling south of Peterborough that says, “You are heading south, have you got a clean hankie and did you switch the big light off before leaving home?” This just about sums us Lincolnshire souls up.
Yep, fair to say Lincolnshire is not top of the list for trend setting, world leading Eureka projects or inventions. I like to think of us lot over on the east as an easy going, say what you think bunch of country bumpkins, with an accent to amuse many.
So what have the powers that be got in store for us in the coming months and years? A bloody 30 odd % cut in services, that’s what.
Jesus, we are not exactly a great drain on the bloody country, but as “her who must be obeyed” pointed out - 30 odd % cut of next to fuck all ain’t going to be too bad to live with. She’s got a good point and I’d better say she didn't actually word it like that, a little more refined but it meant the same thing.
I think what made it instantly better was the next bloody thing I read about was the bonus payouts for the wank workers, sorry bank workers. Just some days I think the world is taking the piss.
Oh yes, a litre per metre per hour, now that’s a little saying that quite nicely runs off the tongue, doesn't it?
What’s it all about? Well, we have an extrusion and moulding plant for sale at Just-Recycling which makes leaking water pipe for land irrigation, solid water pipe, sleeping policemen, barrow wheels, pet mats and heated mats to sit 45 and 5 gallon barrels on.
The plant produces the above end user products from recycled plastics and crumb rubber; it’s not our usual type of machinery but it’s very interesting and will provide a closed loop recycling system for anyone with plastic or rubber waste.
I took a couple of interested clients to see the plant the other day and yes, Brian and Kevin, you are as threatened, getting a mention, and among the many questions asked regarding the plant they wanted to know what the seepage rate of water is from the leaking water pipe.
Well it’s a litre per metre per hour, and the rate of leakage is adjustable with alterations to the amount of the two raw products used to make the pipe.
I’ve got to be honest, a lot of what was discussed regarding the plant went that far over my head planes were genuinely at risk, but rest assured dear reader, the very next time I’m at a garden centre and I come across some poor lost soul with a coil of new leaking water pipe am I going to bore them to death with the leakage rate and the options that are available and the technology that is needed to produce said pipe.
It will also be added to my ever growing inventory of totally worthless conversation pieces.
Hey the world just got better!
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