Anthea Turn er

Hello,

Do you have moans that never go away? Sometimes you verbalise them, other times you keep them to yourself, but they sit there, festering away, permanently on loop and annoying the life out of you.

Last week instead of chuntering I decided to write them down and see if little old me could fix a few things.

Top of my list is rubbish. I can’t bear going to the communal bins and seeing the lack of recycling. You’d have to live in a hole not to be blatantly aware of the hideous situation waste around the world is causing our planet but what we should all be campaigning against is why so much packaging is in our lives in the first place. I might not be in charge of the world but I am totally in control of my household, so I tweaked our buying choices and to further make my point sent pertinent emails off to a selection of supermarkets and product companies.

Next on the list: balconies. Why do people lucky enough to have this treasured outdoor space treat it like a shed without walls, forcing the rest of us to feast our eyes on their mess? In my block there are four perpetrators of this crime so instead of looking on in disgust and sadness, I contacted our management company. Like a dog with a bone, I won’t give in now until

the problem is fixed.

I’ll share one more with you and it’s on the same lines: street litter, weeds and old roadwork debris. Do the people in control ever drive around their own flipping patch? I honed in on a particular mess which has been bugging me for some time. I went through a few hoops to find the right council department, verbally made my complaint/ suggestion with a follow up email and yesterday – zap, the debris had disappeared! Still a way to go on weeds and litter, but it’s a start.

My point is, you might think no one is interested in you having a moan but there’s power in your buying decisions and suggestions. That’s why My Weekly is looking at eco-friendly solutions for delivering subscriber copies and will make an announcement very soon – so watch this space! I now just need to fix the UK economy and find a vaccine for

Covid-19 and then I’m done… Love, Anthea X

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