A load of old rubbish!

I keep meaning to take a photo of the rubbish tip on Old Railway Line. Its a very new tip in that its surrounded by a breeze block wall with the words ' Please dump inside here' painted on one side and 'Do not dump against this wall' on the other side. Maybe its my juvenile sense of humour but I smile every time I drive past. Old Railway Line is actually a road, but it used to be a railway, in fact there are bits of railway in a few places upcountry, all disused now and parts missing as the sleepers were melted down for metal during the war. Maybe one day trains will return to Salone but I just hope they arent red with the words VIRGIN written across the side, this also might offend here!

Back to rubbish. There is no dustbin collection here and you have to carry all your rubbish to the nearest tip. Ours is just a few minutes away across the main road (amusingly actually called Main Motor Road), next to the Mosque (the one whose call to prayer has a habit of waking me at 5am every morning, if the howling dogs havent beaten the caller to it). So ours isnt a 21st century tip, like the one described above (ie having got instructions and walls and everything!!), this is literally a massive pile of rubbish. The routine is that you walk down there as far as you possibly can before the stench turns your stomach and then you throw the rubbish towards the huge pile, hoping you dont mis aim too much. However, this doesnt really matter because people hang about there to go through your rubbish to see if there is anything worth eating or keeping and a white women's rubbish might be more lucrative, so its usually picked up before I've got back up to the main road. Interestingly the tip is next to a food market (and my dept at work is in charge of environmental health for the country!!).

Two good things about today.... (1) I've been offered a second hand fridge for a good price and (2) Its another crazy Phillipino party tonight so I'll no doubt be singing on the Karoake and line dancing all at once. Although the lighlight is always Reynaldo's adobe chicken.... to die for. Happy Saturday!!!!