Defending the country

Switzerland takes many things seriously, including defending itself and its people. They not only testing the sirens once in a while but they regularly monitoring their airspace. Well, to be honest, they actually kind of do it during office hours and weekdays only. Yes, that's right. Twice a day the planes of the Swiss Air Force take off and go around above the country but finish their work when everyone else does and obviously (?) they are off during the weekends.
The first time I heard the planes I thought there is a plane that was actually crushing into our apartment. It's unbelievably loud as they prepare for landing.
Of course they monitor the country out of office hours from the ground but they do not have planes ready to take off in case something happens.
The next nationwide voting in May includes a question about whether or not Switzerland should buy 22 new fighter jets from Sweden costing billions of franks.

Recycling update

Shortly after we moved to Switzerland, I faced with the question of recycling basically everything. I wrote about this before. Since then I figured out how to create a corner, which looks good. Now, obviously I am not there yet as I could not manage to put my hands on the baskets I want but we made some small progress. There are a couple of IKEA bins in the same size for carton, paper and metal tins, and I still collect the plastic ones in a bag. Besides, there are two small baskets for batteries, small electrical things, wood, and milk bottles.
This is how the small progress look like and hoping to get a nice big basket shortly; something like this or that, in which I can partially place some of the IKEA holders.

Another nationwide vote

After the nationwide vote in February (topics included immigration cap), another vote is coming up in May. This time one of the topics is whether or not ban convicted child abusers from working with kids. Apparently now that's not the case and there were precedents in the past, where convicted abusers cold go back teaching after their sentence was over. I am just hoping this initiative will pass. There has to be some common sense...