Electric vehicles, those were the days! Facebook link.

[themoudie]

I apologies, but you will have to use the Facebook link to see what I am rambling on about. My only comment is "So where is the progress?"

Dumfries_and _Galloway_What's_going_on?

Rufus may wish to comment!

Good health to all, Bill

[Itsme]

Thank you for that Bill, what a lovely reminder of how green we used to be as a normal way of life. I tell my children that when I was a child in the 60s we had electric milk floats, electric trolley buses, a salvedge collection on Mondays for used paper, glass bottles with a deposit for their return for lemonade etc, a rag and bone man to collect old clothing for re-use, fresh veg daily as we had no fridge never mind a freezer, one small bin collected weekly, no free plastic bags in shops, wooden window frames and doors instead of UPVC etc. We didn't give anything a fancy name either. we didn't upcycle stuff we just used old stuff differently until it could be used no more for anything and then we usually burnt it for warmth or gave it to the scrap man.

I know this all sounds a bit one-upmanship as though we were perfect and the times were utopian, they certainly weren't. However being lectured by some trendy youth on becoming greener is always too much for me to take as they have no idea what it actually means.

A very grumpy Spartacian

[kevberlin]

Thank you for that Bill, what a lovely reminder of how green we used to be as a normal way of life. I tell my children that when I was a child in the 60s we had electric milk floats, electric trolley buses, a salvedge collection on Mondays for used paper, glass bottles with a deposit for their return for lemonade etc, a rag and bone man to collect old clothing for re-use, fresh veg daily as we had no fridge never mind a freezer, one small bin collected weekly, no free plastic bags in shops, wooden window frames and doors instead of UPVC etc. We didn't give anything a fancy name either. we didn't upcycle stuff we just used old stuff differently until it could be used no more for anything and then we usually burnt it for warmth or gave it to the scrap man.

I know this all sounds a bit one-upmanship as though we were perfect and the times were utopian, they certainly weren't. However being lectured by some trendy youth on becoming greener is always too much for me to take as they have no idea what it actually means.

A very grumpy Spartacian

Spot on!!
……….and add to that the irritating, stupid, pointless “need” for First World water to be sold in plastic bottles when the vast majority have ready access to clean tap water.

[Moto63]

Yes... very well put indeed spartacian 😉. I too (being a reasonable old dad to two young children) constantly tell them about how things used to be, back in the “good ol daze” I tell them how we used to go knocking on doors up and down our estate and ask for any empty jam jars or pop bottles from our neighbours. We’d then take them to the shop get the deposit back on them and divvy up what we got between us. (Usually four of us) then with our “hard earned cash” we’d buy a couple o three penny chews from the “penny tray” 😉.. happy memories indeedy
Cheers Michael

[RonXBR]

That's nothing! I'm so old I remember when people were polite to each other. Totally agree with all the comments so far, although trips to the outside toilet in the middle of winter, would not be on my wish list of things to bring back. Not sure either about the weekly routine of tin bath in front of the fire, especially when a neighbour or relative walked in unannounced, no one locked their front doors then. But we were happy.

[spooky]

I apologies, but you will have to use the Facebook link to see what I am rambling on about. My only comment is "So where is the progress?"

Dumfries_and _Galloway_What's_going_on?

Rufus may wish to comment!

Good health to all, Bill

I would love to comment, however with not having facebook I can`t read it !!!

[Richard]

Of course it wasn't 'the kids' who stopped all these schemes.

It was the older generation.  Lecture on Greta.

[themoudie]

Aye Rufus,

You don't have to have an account to view the link. But, I understand why you might choose not to. So, here is the image and words attached.

Good health, Bill

[kevberlin]

Of course it wasn't 'the kids' who stopped all these schemes.

It was the older generation.  Lecture on Greta.

Brilliant!

[themoudie]

Same old "Blah, Blah, Blah!"

Bill

[spooky]

Thanks for that Bill, but I can`t see where it mentions DumGal  ?  is it that they are going to use electric floats again maybe?   puzzled from Dumgal...

[themoudie]

Aye Rufus the link is to the Facebook page of the "Dumfries and Galloway, What's Going On" organisation! I know about as much as you do of that organisation!

Good health, Bill

[spooky]

ok, i will try harder, or ask my daughter, she works for them....

[Itsme]

Of course it wasn't 'the kids' who stopped all these schemes.

It was the older generation.  Lecture on Greta.

Is that the Greta seen chanting 'you can shove your climate crisis up your arse' outside COP26?

I do actually agree though Richard, we progressed the technology etc that has put us where we are today not them, they are just end users. I am also really impressed that so many young people care about ecology, I just wish they would credit us oldies with the knowledge to live that way and not assume they discovered green living.

Spartacian

[Steve Lake]

well Bill, slight improvement in speed, and passenger comfort, but huge rise in cost and less load carrying capacity...
when i were a nipper i used to ride on out local milkmans chariot (as he called it), poor sod got the sack because he forgot to leave the chariot on charge twice in one month !