Friendly FoEs
Anna Mitchell from the Friends of the Earth press office was on the phone to Guido and he got on his bike and went back to their offices.Anna looked me in the eye and said "that is not our rubbish". Guido pointed out that it was outside their office and had a Friends of the Earth sticker on it. She said it was not their bin, the rubbish must come from their neighbours and she offered me the chance to come view their extensive recycling facilities. Guido declined the offer. Anna clearly was genuine and Guido is a sucker for a pretty face - so will accept their claim.
However, there is clearly a missed recycling opportunity here for them literally on their doorstep. All that paper waste and their handy recycling facilities...
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Isn't Starbucks fairtrade these days?
It's no good, Guido, you'll have to get on your bike again and take a good look at the contents of the bin. Rip open a few of those plastic sacks and carry out the detailed forensic examination that this question needs.
I don't think it should be allowed to rest there.....
I'm more interested in Israel..
i wish you'd stop talking rubbish
Friends of the Earth ? Why are they in an office they should be in a field somewhere, surely?
Now we do not want them in any field near here in rural Devon. Perhaps Mrs Guido will allow them on your field Guido?
But there is something wrong with an organisation that wants to save the world but which is using up valuable resources in an office block.
I promise never to subscribe to this organisation in the future.
It's a slightly unclear image, but that bike in the picture seems to lack a crossbar and a safety seat for Ms Fawkes. Can we be assured that it really is Guido's? (or has it been parked there for four years?)
It's worth noting that there appears to be a little more rubbish now than in the earlier picture.
Perhaps Guido could lurk in the shadows like a private detective in order to catch the non-FoE miscreants in the act should they return again.
"Guido Gumshoe"... has a certain ring, dontcha think?
a sucker for a pretty face......nice.
perhaps we can hav a pic and pass judgement!
Missed the police annoucement on Sunday that they are investigating Prescott then? Try poping into a newsagent instead of raking through other people's bins.
They should sling that bike in there as well,it`s taking up valuable car parking space.
for someone who is so totty-friendly, you would have thought that the choice of putting a photo of some FOE totty and a second photo of the same rubbish bin would have been a no-brainer.
Not impressed Guido - you are slipping.
Definitely too much rubbish on this site...
Definatley a girls bike, has it got a bell Guido?
Interesting that they take the 'Not our rubbish not our problem' attitude
Right is Might,
Missed that Gudio reported the allegations being made two weeks ago?
Don,
Bike is mine, does have a bell and no cross bar. It is for comfort, not speed. Bell amuses Ms Fawkes immensely, the safety-seat detaches.
I am looking forward to the first Friends of the Earth Wheelie Bin Totty Report.
Is H. W. Fowler in the house? What is the possessive form of "Friends of the Earth"? The FoE spokesperson used "Friends of the Earth's". This cannot be right. "Friends' of the Earth"? "Of the Earth's Friends"? "Belonging or appertaining to Those Amicably Disposed Towards ...?" &c., &c.
Standards, Guido, standards!
Times are long gone when a bloke's bike had to have a macho crossbar which broke your balls if you ever fell on it - today's unisex bikes are better built and much more comfortable. I applaud Guido's choice with its large wheels and sensible layout - I have to make do with a crossbar-less envirnomentally-friendly collapsible electric bike with tiny wheels that Mrs Lambethlad rather unwisely bought when she was an MP ! It tends to collapse unpredictably (or not at all, depending on the moon's position in the House of the Zodiac) and has the world's most inaccessible tyre valves. Apart from that, it's great (when you get off it !)
Not wishing in any way shape or form to cause offence as my posts elswhere re: wanting the word 'gay' back to its rightful use in the English language seem to have done BUT!!! Am I the only person left who is fed up seeing bicycles being used on our pavements..? Fed up with bicycles cluttering the pavememts as their owners pop into a shop causing mere pedestrians to step over / around them..?
It also has a kick stand, chain guard and reflectors, all that's missing is a basket on the front, just the sort of bike that Miss Marple would ride.
Funny thing is it has a lock, what self respecting young thug would be seen dead riding a bike like that while delivering drugs?
All very amusing - but if you had done such a thing in/on the non-blog media you would have been hung, drawn and quartered, again
It started out as "totty" and degenerated swiftly ("Swiftly"?) to "bike".
Tut.
Kindest possible regards,
ScotsToryB
guido @ 1.42
"gudio"? you been drinkin' some non-organic spanish down at the FoE or something?
...the safety-seat detaches
and is placed into the car which follows Guido whenever he goes cycling? I think we should be told!
Stalin's gran is right. Nice story, nice to hear about tree-hugging totty.
But this is why bloggers are bloggers and journalists and journalists...
"she offered me the chance to come view their extensive recycling facilities"
Guido, is this just a FOTE version of 'Come up and see my etchings?'
Good gawd, what lame-o's. I used to work in Greenpeace office #1 and believe you me, we'd have got the full-on recycling program going up and down that block within a week of moving into that space.
NIMBY-ism has no place in environmentalism. Are they only friends of the Earth Under Our Immediate Square Footage?
Guido; it's not exactly the Batmobile. Can't you at least put playing cards in the spokes or something?
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