Sunday, 21 September 2008

59. The Bottle Bank.


Partook in that virtuous, albeit double-edged, activity today down at the bottle bank.
Part of you feels proud to be out on a Sunday morning, saving the planet by recycling bottles. Yet the other part of you is shrivelling up with shame and horror at the sight of it all, as you think to yourself, "Do I really drink this much???"

The main photo is of the bottle bank but, just for Kate (because she likes the hills, and to make her feel better about her multi-photo posts), here's a photo of the view behind me.

 
It helped enormously to keep my eye on this lovely view and off the recycling. Swung the balance back towards me feeling virtuous.

(I must add that when not pregnant it's the sight of countless empty wine bottles that triggers my shame. Today it was the sight of a dozen empty hot chocolate jars.) 

4 comments:

Maxine Moss said...

waitrose......

....get you.....


(those hills look like portugal or spain or somewhere else not british..)

Sheena said...

He he! I was tempted to photoshop "Harrods" onto that sign, to appear even posher! (Have done that in two other pictures taken in shops and posted to this blog, but nobody noticed. So skilled am I at photoshopping!)

I thought the same about the hills. I think it's a combination of the building, and the tree on the left.
Maybe.

KateMc said...

Aww a photo just for me, how nice :-). Nice hill! Now take one from the top looking down, and you can feel really virtuous.

I'm not as impressed as max is by waitrose, though, for I know that Malvern Waitrose shares a space with a lesser sumpermarket. I bet you shop in one and take photos in the other.

Sheena said...

Hell, I've no need to feel that virtuous!

There's enough of a distance between the two stores for Waitrose to feel separate. I like the fact that you have to make the effort to walk just a little further in order to pay twice as much for your groceries.

And how very dare you!!!
(So what if I do?)