Summer Bin Diving

It's been far too long since I updated this, so here's a brief summary of the summer diving that I can remember right now.

It's been quite slow generally since a lot of people have stepped up "security" by locking and chaining bin lids and gates and installing bright motion sensing lights. This has successfully put me off a little bit because generally it's much scarier and more work for very little/no pay off. I've also encountered specific shops pouring bleach over everything to ruin it, infuriating for us but even worse for other people since this happens more in town where there are more homeless divers who need to eat. Pretty shitty. But, there have also been some really good trips, particularly a few times I've gone with friends who have been staying and those were really fun and we ate really well.


Anyway, the main thing that sticks is my mind is this; the most hilarious thing I have ever binned.



Had a bit of an explore around town with my buddy, didn't find any food but we got The Mamas & The Papas 20 Greatest Hits and and a huge picture/mirror frame out of a biffa behind a supermarket. No idea what either were doing in there but no complaints from us.

Got some of this stuff from our regular diving at various places, all of it pretty good (as ever could do with some more bread and vegetables/fruit instead of so much cake).

We got this next lot in one go, the night before we had a party/house show and there were loads and loads of hungry friends staying with us for about a week. Very good timing and we all ate so well. The fruit and bread and spaghetti were brilliant, we got it weeks ago and I still have some hoops left. Free stuff is so delicious.

Somebody else actually ate the cheese that I wrote my name on before I could get my hands on it, which I was sad about at the time but actually it turned out to be a good thing. A few of us ate some bin yoghurts the same night and I had pretty excruciating stomach cramps the next day (everybody else was fine) so I think I'm gonna have to stear clear of freegan dairy from now on. I'm feeling pretty good about it since the tricky decision to not eat binned dairy has been made for me. Good times.

I think that's pretty much everything for now.