Salvation

Fortuitous happenstance: I tidy and what should turn up but the letter from the council inducting me into the club of Green Waste Collection subscribers.

I admitted some time ago to having lost track of this letter and being unable to remember when exactly we shall switch from weekly to fortnightly collection. Happily I've got the small print of the terms and conditions to read at my leisure and lose once again: against the chance of that latter eventuality I posting herein the key terms and conditions:

Garden waste bins will be collected weekly from the first week in April to the last week in November and during March and fortnightly during December, January and February.

I've read that sentence and I cannot construct any valid interpretation other than that the council will run a weekly collection service from the start of March to the end of November and then a fortnightly service across the winter months of December, January and February.

But why, oh why couldn't they just say so? This document by the way, has been 'updated' so some one has had a chance to re-write the bits that required an overhaul.