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“The Skip” Issue 43 February 2009
The February issue of The Skip is packed full of all your favourite usual skip features and stories from the wonderful world of skip hire in the UK and Ireland.
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Skip Chick – February 2007
This month’s Skip Chick is Laura from Recycling Management Services in Cheshire! Laura, originally hails from Chicago but has moved over here after hearing the streets were paved with gold (Americans eh! – Ed), possibly.
Hi Laura! Can you tell our readers and little bit about yourself and what you do?
Well, I work as a Marketing Assistant for Recycling Management Services and I like to work hard and play hard. I also like horse-riding, deep pan pizzas and baseball – I’m still a Chicago girl at heart.
Chicago eh! I know a bloke called Paulie from Bronzeville on the South Side. Do you know him?
Er, no – Chicago’s massive. Nearly 3 million people live there.
Oh right! It’s called the Windy City isn’t it? Paulie is really windy, he’s forever breaking wind.
It’s not called the Windy City because the people who live there are flatulent. It’s just a windy city – the weather that is.
Ok. Have you got any strange or funny stories you’d like to tell our readers?
In 1998 a rich friend of my mothers, who’s just over 60 and very vain decided she needed a face-lift. So, after talking to a number of the world’s top surgeons she met one young London doctor who assured her that he could make her look at least fifteen years younger using a new technique he’d discovered. The technique involved placing a small screw behind each ear so that she could tighten her face once a week in order to maintain a fresh young look. Well, the operation was success and my mum’s friend was really pleased until September last year when she noticed huge bags developing under her eyes. So she travelled over to the doctor’s surgery and demanded to know why the bags were developing under her eyes. The doctor replied, “Lady those aren’t bags, they’re your boobs, and if you don’t stop turning those screws you’re going to have a beard!
What do you like about The Skip magazine?
It’s really funny and colourful. It’s not stuffy like lots of other trade magazines out there.
Before you go – Do you have anything you’d like to say to our readers?
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
Deep! – Thanks Laura…
A Christmas Message From The Skip Magazine
A short Christmas message from some of the team at
The Skip Magazine
Break Time
Picture the scene – hordes of students, red-faced, with furious foreheads and a violent look in their eyes. All chucking kitchen utensils into a skip!
Depending on your disposition, it’s either mildly amusing or slightly disturbing. But fear not, for the kitchen utensil destruction going on at Swindon New College recently was all part of the Youth Service’s Youth Work Week, which focused on mental health and emotional wellbeing.
At The Skip we’re not too sure what the link is between breaking pots and plates and helping those in mental anguish. In fact it all seems bit ironic, but hey, it’s mildly amusing and it involves skips – WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT!
The stress-busting event held in early November was organised by Swindon’s Youth Service and proved to be extremely popular (Students eh! They’ll do anything to avoid work – Ed).
A massive queue formed in front of the skip as students fervently waited to get their chance to smash their stress away.
One student, called Annabel said, “I feel brilliant now. I think there are loads of pressures on students because all our work seems to come at the same time. But this has been great and I’m ready to go off to a class now.”
Another student, known only as Baz, shouted, “This is brilliant! Doing mad stuff stops people going mad. It’s a mad idea and I blimmin’ love it!”
Before the students hurled their pieces of tableware into the skip they were asked to write what they were thinking onto them.
Lindsey Poole, a youth development worker in Swindon thinks activities like this are a great way to reach out to the town’s teenagers and get them to approach serious issues in a fun way.
“The themes of mental health and emotional wellbeing can be quite dry and difficult to talk about with young people so we thought this would be a good way to help them relieve some stress and tension, she said.
More activities are planned throughout November. Maaaaaaaad!
