SKIP WATCH

I got dragged along to an Ambassador’s reception recently, as you do when you work in the waste industry. It was pretty boring, to tell you the truth, so I whipped out some of my ‘special interest’ Polaroids that I carry discretely in my top pocket and started showing them around to spice things up a bit. They soon became the focus of the whole evening and, at one point, the Ambassador was actually heard to say “Monsieur, with these tremendously overloaded skip photographs you are spoiling us!” (What? You didn’t think I’d pull out those photos did you!)
So, you see, your fantastic overloaded skip photos are not merely serving the purpose of giving us all a good chuckle each month. They are actually a vital tool in my quest for social acceptance. In fact, they may well have saved my life too, for all I know, when some skinheads tried to mug me at a railway station in south London last February. I was pinned against a fence by two of them, while the third mugger went through my pockets. Luckily, the first thing the little scally found was one of my aforementioned Polaroid collections, and they were all so busy laughing at them that I managed to slip their clutches and do a runner amid the distraction. The loss of some particularly exquisite pictures did take me a while to come to terms with, but I managed to retain all my body parts, so it was a fair trade-off in the end.

Anyway, let’s have a good look at these latest fine specimens to be added to
the collection. The skip above was sent to us by D K Rowe Skip Hire, of London. It’s another victim of pruning madness and is definitely in need of an extreme hair cut before it stands much chance of going anywhere.

Here we have an artfully overpiled collection of household fittings and rubble that was snapped by Sam at Dunmow Skips Ltd. And yes, it’s even got the kitchen sink in there!
My favourite overloaded skip fix this month, however, comes courtesy of Triple C Skips, of Accrington. It’s positively haemorrhaging lounge furniture in all directions! You can bet that the inevitable sofas teetering on the top were not dumped in there by the person who actually hired the skip too (I think that’s pretty much an unwritten rule, nowadays isn’t it?)

Right, I’m off to a speed dating evening now – where the pictures never fail to make an instant impression. Please help me to continue having a social life by sending more great overloaded skip pics to pr@theskip.net or post them to – The Skip, Baxall Business Centre, Adswood Road, Stockport, SK3 8LF.