Reduce, reuse, recycle … it’s hard rubbish month in Darebin!

Hi it’s Leanne here.

Today is another oversharing post from me.

Because Darebin hard rubbish is on, and it is my favourite time of the year. Hands down! As far as I am concerned it’s a month of good vibes everywhere - as the whole suburb turns into one giant free op shop!

So I am going to share a list with you … my most favourite hard rubbish finds. So you can possibly be proud that you put those things out for display on the nature strip so nicely that I picked them up!

Because it’s everyone’s aim right, with anything still in good nick, to set it out nicely so that someone collects it … there’s nothing more depressing in the whole world to me than hearing that crushing truck crushing good things that someone could have collected … oh it nearly makes me cry!

Anyway, the list of the things I am proud to have rescued from the nasty truck include:

• The pigeon hole shelves in my lounge room

• The drawers in my bedroom

• The standard lamp in my lounge room

• My bike

• My bentwood kitchen chairs

• My hall table

• The wool rug in my dining room

• The kilim rug in my hall

• My Webber Q (amazing right?)

• The antique desk in my studio

And the list goes on and on. My 3 matching garden tables, my teak garden chairs, the slide in the garden, the rusty old laundry trolley under our clothes line that adds character to our garden … and all my vintage washing baskets.

When the kids were little I found sandpit toys, bikes and boogie boards.

Whatever you need, in whatever life stage you are at … you can find it in hard rubbish. I swear it’s true! Some nice old Fowlers jars for vases? A new armchair? I wish you good luck for the upcoming fun. I’ll see you out there.

Last week as we were putting out our new community art project I got chatting to Adi who was sitting at the neighbourhood table while his kids were rollerblading and skating around our triangle of grass.

And he mentioned that he is doing neighbourhood food deliveries.

If you haven’t met him already (at the Alphington footy club or at the crepe stall at Alphington PS fete) he usually runs a bakery called Little Bertha in Abbotsford but, like many of us, he has had to radically change his business model over the last couple of months.

So he has got together with other businesses in Abbotsford and Collingwood and started an online delivery service.

Eggs are one of his specialties (he says they’re from young chooks and are amazing for baking and perfect for poaching) plus all the other things you need like milk, bread, butter, fruit and veggies, and meat. There’s a whole range of packs you can choose from. And then there are cakes.

And … if you live in Alphington he has offered to deliver to you for free. When you pay just check free pickup and then in the notes write ‘Adi deliver’. And he will. On his way home from work. How nice is that!

And … how nice do the cakes look. So good in fact that I had another local contact me separately (she’d had them delivered) to suggest I write a post about them … and Adi’s new service. So there you go. Aren’t we lucky to live in such neighbourhoodly times!

Look out for Adi in the ‘hood!

Only 40 letters out there. If they’ve all gone … look out for next week’s letter!