Co-op, Compost and Common Sense

My metamorphosis into Victor Meldrew quickens with each day and God bless the Daily Mail for fuelling it.

The latest story to have me rolling my eyes is the story of Mary Whitner. In summary, she has worked at the Co-op for 23 years and lately a customer was buying 4 bunches of flowers. One of these bunches was now out of date so Mary wasn't allowed to sell them, instead she would have to follow the code of practice and throw them in the rubbish bin. But instead she let the lady have that one bunch for free rather than see them go to waste.

A colleague then snitched on Mary to the bosses and Mary was subsequently given the choice of jump or be pushed, just weeks before she was due to retire.

This would be the same Co-op who pride themselves on being as green as possible, fair trade and friendly. Did Mary really commit such a heinous crime?

She wasn't passing off food which could have been contaminated, we all know what flowers on the brink are like. The flowers were destined otherwise for the bin and from what I gather not the compost variety.

And don't get me started on the jobs-worth who reported her.

The waste from shops and restaurants in this country is disgusting. I can't watch bloody foodie programmes. Self important chefs throwing plates of perfectly good food away because his underling hadn't peeled a perfectly spherical pretentious fruit. I actually start to growl.

I feel guilty when  I open the fridge to find another well intentioned lettuce has passed over before heading down the garden to feed it to my beloved compost bin.

And on the subject of my compost bin. Had a great gardening day on Tuesday. the garden is springing nicely into life. Here's a few pictures of the blossoms and flowers:

Bonsai Crab Apple Tree Blossom

Pear Tree Blossom

Yellow Tulip

Comments

[Thursday]

I had no idea about this. This is an outrage. Heads should roll and it most certainly shouldn't be Mary Whitner's.