How about ........

[nick the grief]

....... a recycling section on the Vine. Loads of us recycle things it may be of use to list them for others.

[madderbat]

....... a recycling section on the Vine. Loads of us recycle things it may be of use to list them for others.

Great idea Nick, some of us are close enought to exchange bits and bobs or post them (like seeds).

[rustylady]

Good idea if you live close enough to each other. Seeds etc can always be posted if not. Good recycling site if you don't want to do it through the Vine is Freecycle. Most areas have a local one, just go to search and type in Freecycle. Someone came and collected glass from the shed today, and also a slow cooker that had been lurking in the cupboard under the stairs.

[Lesley Jay]

Actually as usual Nick that is a good idea.

[JennieAtkinson]

It would be good to have some recycling tips for those of us who don't live local to anyone.

[Peter]

But why duplicate freecycle?

Also restricting it to Grapes only.

And please don't climb down my neck, I'm only asking.

[Shortie]

I think it's a good idea myself.

I really appreciate the idea behind freecycdle, but I don't have a local one and my nearest one I've joined always bikcers, and have started a poll up saying they don't want to have people outside their area join (like me), so I've given up on it.

But even if this board was used for recycling threads '100 ways to reuse a Christmas Card', or '100 ways to reuse a loo roll tube'... etc. Local swapping would be good be a good bonus if it proved to work out as well as getting grapes to meet each other

[nick the grief]

But why duplicate freecycle?

Also restricting it to Grapes only.

And please don't climb down my neck, I'm only asking.

I wasn't thinking of duplicating freecycle/freebay Peter, My thoughts were purely lottie orientated. like cutting the bottom of Demijons to make bottle cloches .... bugger, thats one I've given away already

Also, even though we may live a long way apart I may have something that Rat wants (dirty postcards for instance) and I could pass them to Beefy on his way thru Nunny, he passes them to LJ in some dark dockside alleyway and she passes them to someone else etc etc on to the frozen North. Or he could just meet me in Oban in July when I'm up there on me hols - lock up yer sheep & Haggi

[mandyballantyne]

I think it is a great idea, I think some of us travel for work too so we could arrange to drop things off.

I am in cheshire at least once a fortnight and reguarly in Manchester, London, Watford, Bolton, oxford to name a few and would be happy to offer free transport while out and about.

Mandy

[Lesley Jay]

I think it would be nice to offer anything gardening / allotment related to fellow grapes first. Freecycle second.

[dexterdoglancashire]

I think it's a super idea as well. It would be another way to help each other. DDL

[Shortie]

That's what I love about this place - the community spirit

[nick the grief]

I prefer Polish Spirit hic

[kirsty b]

Triffic idea Mr Grief.

[vicki lorraine]

Loving the recycling thread idea. Although i havent come across anyone from Coventy yet. The nearest to me is Nick i think. Are there any fellow coventrians out there?
Judging by the number of empty lotties in Coventry i dont think there are many GYOs from round here.