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Post by Humph on Aug 4, 2017 17:41:22 GMT
We have a reasonably large garden at the back. Maybe half of it by area is grass. My wife says she likes it that way. The dog likes it that way because that's where he plays and "goes". But neither my wife or the dog ever make any attempt to cut it. My son threatens to do it in return for financial favours, but the chances of that actually happening are about the same as being hit by an asteroid.
I know it's part and parcel of being a middle aged nonentity, like car washing and so on but I really hate cutting grass. Feels like such a royal waste of time. Sodding stuff only grows again.
And I've just trodden in a poo I missed.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 4, 2017 18:05:38 GMT
And I've just trodden in a poo I missed. ...wait a few more years and you may be sitting in one........
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 4, 2017 18:10:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 18:36:02 GMT
I detest gardening. Really, really hate it. But strangely the one job I don't mind is mowing. Enjoy it actually. Some of it on a sit-on, some of it with a walk-behind.
That and ironing, the two jobs I don't mind at all.
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Post by Rob on Aug 4, 2017 20:08:36 GMT
Do you iron socks and towels? My mum does.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 4, 2017 20:34:08 GMT
Do you iron socks and towels? My mum does. He irons the lawn. Got to keep the British standards up for Johnny Foreigner, you know!
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Post by Humph on Aug 4, 2017 20:57:58 GMT
Y'see that's the trouble, my garden isn't quite big enough to justify a sit on mower, and I do get the attraction of one of those. Power slides etc I should think?
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 4, 2017 21:24:28 GMT
Power slides etc I should think? Power slides maybe......pretty difficult to hit a bus, though.... (No kerbs, either......)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2017 21:48:43 GMT
Of course I iron towels. Not socks though.
To be quite honest I rarely do it these days, though I usually do my own dress shirts. Slightly strangely the maid takes it as an insult. I tend to flip between utter slob and caring about the slightest thing.
Back to lawn mowing......
Sit-ons are cool. Usually with a beer and headphones. But I'm far to anal to mess about with sliding. The thought and effort I put into the straightest lines possible, trying never to cross a piece of grass I've already mown, trying to get the longest runs possible, etc. etc. Its pathetic I know, I get mocked a lot. But there you are, its what I do.
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Post by Avant on Aug 4, 2017 22:17:30 GMT
Our garden is just about big enough for a ride-on, so we have one, for the benefit of the grandchildren of course. Our two eldest grandchildren have tried steering (one at at time, and still sitting on my knee): Eddie aged 5 steered unerringly round the apple-tree at the top of the garden....as for Daisy aged 7 - as Bob Newhart famously said in The Driving Instructor, 'I hadn't intended to cover reverse this early'.
Anyone else with a ride-on know if they're all designed the same way? Ours is a John Deere, designed by someone who clearly voted for George W. Bush and Donald Trump. The grass has to be pushed up a steep chute to arrive in the collecting-box, so that if it's even slightly damp, it gets stuck and stops beong picked up. D'oh. It's been two weeks since the grass was dry enough, although I'm hopeful for tomorrow.
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Post by Rob on Aug 5, 2017 0:16:24 GMT
>> Our garden is just about big enough for a ride-on
Get one you push. Extra exercise too.
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Post by WDB on Aug 5, 2017 6:33:36 GMT
A ride-on that you push? S'pose Early Learning Centre might have one.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 5, 2017 11:23:39 GMT
...I think this is Mark's sit on/walk behind lawn mower.......
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2017 17:23:37 GMT
Wow! That's cool!
I shall steal the picture.
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Post by Alanović on Aug 7, 2017 8:55:59 GMT
Like Otto I quite like mowing. I've got fairly small lawns in the scheme of things, doesn't even approach an hour to do all three. Just use a walk-behind Honda Izy. I do very little else in the garden and if I do attempt to grow anything, it usually fails. Would quite like a plot of about an acre to justify a ride-on, but my Mum's got 30+ acres of Wales and loads of tractors, quad bikes etc so I get to use them every now and again. I particularly like a little red tractor of Turkish manufacture which they have. Has quite a turn of speed.
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