Doing the Lambeth Tweet and Bulky Items

Hats off to OnionBagBlog for his Lambeth Walk twitter widget (now in my sidebar too!) which "strips the RSS feed of the tweets sent out by the good Twitterati folk over at Lambeth Council, and then aggregates the data in one central location."

I don't know where Mr OBB finds the time to do all these things but I'm glad he does.

Along the way I found a rather sweet intertweet between lukewaterfield (right) and a Lambeth councillor. Mr Waterfield had updated his status with "has just had the crap kicked out of him" to which the seemingly very maternal Lambeth Cllr Mark Bennett rapidly responded "Where and how? have you informed the police?"

Anyway, nice to know that all these caring Cllrs are on Twitter. Apparently Lambeth has more twittering councillors than any other local authority.

So the big question is: How can I harness the power of this technology to get Lambeth to pick up the bulky refuse delivery that they have THREE TIMES arranged to pick up only to FAIL, FAIL and FAIL. They put some icing on the cake this morning by having an itinerant refuse collector knock on the door (on the instructions of his boss apparently) and demand to know who was supposed to be picking the bulky refuse up because otherwise we were going to be in trouble with the law. I explained that it was the council.

"Do you have a reference number?"

"Why, yes, we have three actually."

Apparently satisfied, he gave a cheery wave and went off on his way with his pal in what looked very much like a bulky refuse collection vehicle.

As my housemate wisely said, you'd think a council would put all of its efffort into doing a good refuse collection service as that's the interaction that all of its residents have with it and most regularly.

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