Skips

Not the crips but the metal things used to house builders waste.

I know this is about building again, but skips deserve their own mention. Here as some things I like about skips:

1) They have lots of exciting waste in them. Some of it is crap, but some of it is brilliant and worth pillaging. Either way, to look in a skip is a guarantee of a good time.

2) One big mass of waste. Thats what happens. Builders add their mess willy nilly and they also empty the remains of their mortar and cemenent and plastar and filler and silicon and all sorts. The net effect is this binds all the stuff together and you get a massive skip clump of waste. I find it amusing.

3) Where does it all go? Landfill I am sure, but I like to think there are huge mounds of skip shaped debris somewhere.

4) Using skips. The most frightening thing but also the most joyous is when a skip gets quite full or you need to get a wheel barrow of stuff in it. They have high sides and the barrow is no doubt laden with old bricks. The solution? A plank up the side. The trick then is getting the wheel barrow up it. Sounds easy but it aint! You need momentum to get the weight up there and so have to have a run up. This then gives a few dangers 1) you may not get enough speed and roll down again or 2_) your aim is not right due to the imense running speed and you tople over the edge. But a well aimed and runned dump fills you with joy like nothing else!

The house next door to us is being worked on at the moment and I had the pleasure of seeing the skip delivered the other day. I filmed it and it was funny. Might try and get it online so you can all share in teh joy. Skips being delivered and taken away are crazy. It takes less time than you would think, but while its being done looks crazy dangerous like the skip is gonna collide into a house at any moment.

I long to have my own skip one day.