The area I used to live in wasn't the nicest place to live. It was next to a spot where homeless people used to gather.



I always felt sorry for them, especially as I looked out from inside my warm home and saw them suffering in the cold winters and rainy autumn days.

one random Wednesday evening, I was being a nosey neighbour, when something unusual caught my eye. Something was different in the landscape I was so used to seeing everyday.

A skip was overturned and with not one homeless person in sight. As I crossed the nearby road, I looked again. To my utter amazement, a short, rough looking man crawled out from beneath the skip. Brilliant.

the skip hire companies loss was their gain. They had used the skip as a means to gain shelter!

Their newly formed shelter was now keeping the terrible weather from attacking their already weak, cautious bodies. Right there, they had actually just created a little community inside the very small space of a skip while at the same time, keeping themselves warm as they packed into this miniature packet of shelter.

I spent all night thinking about what a superb idea it was, certainly a new way of using a skip that's for sure. Those people might not have anywhere else to go but they have skip hire to thank for their new shelter.

Who knows, one day I might have to try it myself! Those people may not have a lot in this world, but they have that skip as well as each other and they have skip hire to thank for that.