Wash out for bank holiday
Sadly not a weekend I fancied for for a caravan outing, it promised to be a washout this weekend so I didn't bother booking anywhere. We have booked a weekend away outside of London and we are intending to commute in on each day to have a day out in London.
Have done a few jobs this week.
- Removed another two rotten wood posts holding up my raised veg plot. The one at the back came out pretty easily and replaced with a new post. Replaced the small piece of wood completely rotted through with a new post which should hold the side of it better.
- Added guttering round the side of the summer house, we had talked about buying a waterbutt though it's awkward against the house so instead I've added guttering on the summer house.
- Was going to bin the camilia but actually it wasn't full of ants and seemed to have reasonable roots so have given it some fresh compost and will see if it re-invigorates itself
- Usual gardening chores - both gardens mowed
Pesky bin men didn't bother emptying my green bin, we are generally pretty good now not filling it completely in the two weeks but that's no excuse not to empty it. We've logged a miss-collection with the council and hope that they do actually come back an empty it. I'm not holding my hopes up considering it's a bank holiday
Homeassistant stopped announcing the bin that was being collected - wierd I thought. I called the endpoint and found that the council has changed their response that is produced when you query it.
Instead of passing back a JSON structure with "status" and the collection days in a sub-structure it is now just the collection days as the main structure. Simple fix for me to change what was being parsed out so that is now fixed. You might ask why I didn't just use the 'UK Bin Collection day' addon? Well I tried, but it didn't support my council so I started to add it and then found someone else had already got a PR in for it. Sadly though it was stuck in review and then got rejected because the person submitting the PR didn't update the PR when the core addon changed. All in all it's a bit of a pain when this sort of thing happens, people try and contribute then there's a lot of noise about non-conpliance and people get put off and don't bother.