Nourissez la poubelle!

Public campaigns are often dour, lots of carrot and not much stick. But this one to reduce garbage is magnificent: each public garbage can is decorated like a monster, with a gaping mouth, and a solar-powered computer detects when garbage is thrown out in the can and makes a NOM NOM noise.

Nourrissez la poubelle! (Feed the trashcan!)

Apparently there was a problem with overzealous children throwing out things that were not garbage in order to get the silly noise. It's weird when public service campaigns go too far.


This post's theme word is adhibit, "to let in," or "to administer" or "to affix or attach" (transitive). The monster-face stickers, once adhibited, were unreasonably successful in adhibiting garbage.

Lausanne pagoda

On the lakefront of Lausanne, there is a park.

In this park, there is a pagoda.

The pagoda is elaborate, gold-leafed, ornately painted and detailed, and entirely exposed to the weather (which by inference is mild).

It's an imposing sight.

But it's snugged away in a little corner.


This post's theme word is cote, "a shelter for animals," or "to pass by." What an eccentric cote, how lucky we didn't cote it!