Prior to yet another delay in recycling collection today, I'm still waiting for the previous delayed and rescheduled recycling collection to be collected. I even saw one of the garden waste trucks in the village, Harbury, collecting on its rescheduled day but the household recycling is still awaiting its collection. In the meantime it's continuing to build up. During all of this I have managed to get out of and back into my 'inaccesiable' village and today even managed Gatwick and back. Not impressed. Your revised lists are becoming so complicated that need a degree now to work out when the next collection is.

Have absolutely no idea from the schedules - revised or other when my waste is likely to be collected. Can't you make it simpler to understand. Live in Henley.

Surely with the additional costs being incurred, snow chains would be an economic option!

Snow Chains only work on roads with thick snow. In the UK the snow is kept off main roads as much as possible, and snow chains would rip up the tarmac if there wasn't any snow to protect the road. Ice is surely the biggest problem at the moment and chains don't help with this. I don't want a refuse lorry in my front room, so safety first please.

As you say, main roads are kept clear, but presently 90% of roads are snow bound. Also, I havent seen reports of black ice recently, and snow chains are readily removeable. What about some positive, constructive thinking, rather than what cannot be done!

Mucking about repeatedly with the due dates is not helpful to anyone, as the other comments here illustrate. If a collection is not possible because the snow is deep or dangerous then that is one unavoidably missed and people understand. But if it wasn't for 'outsourcing' the collection guys could have been so much more help clearing paths for elderly residents or schools for exams etc - but such 'community' thinking is now precluded!

IN SUPPORT OF VERDANT. The time taken to write some of these negative views could have been put to better use, ie do what i did - take some of your refuse/recycling to your nearest tip/recycling centre and be done with it!! Where on earth did Ted Hunter get "but presently 90% of roads are snow bound."?? I have seen no reports of this any where!! As to clearing paths/schools etc, if you note in years gone by, a lot of areas were cleared by residents in the street, shop keepers in retail areas etc etc. But as usual, people no longer take ownership and expect everything to be done for them! If concern is for elderly residents, I hope Andrew went and offered his services before writing the following comment...."but such 'community' thinking is now precluded!"? Surely as a resident, you are part of a community? The Council can only do so much, and we can do our bit too.