I gazed sadly at my jungle of a garden yesterday and decided that nobody is going to mow it, so I’ll have to. I heaved out the useless lawn mower that I have that has a mind of its own and tackled the front bit. Not bad and my back was doing pretty well so I carried on down the side of the house until I finally gave up once I’d reached the back garden. My back was beginning to hate my lawn mower as much as I do, so I scraped up the leaves and the remains of last years vine and got rid of them while very carefully walking past the pile of leaves in front of the garage. Doh.
I then spent about an hour unwinding the extension lead and rolling it up decently for the next time – next time? am I mad? – and saw that I’d mowed about 1/3 of the garden. It looks better from the front of the house though. I then sat in the sun for an hour or so smelling like a pig and then slowly turning the same shade as one.
That was quite an active day.
For a pig.
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How is your back today?
Mine is a jungle too – with flowers.
Anji’s back is a flowery jungle? Pictures etc.
Also… get sheep.
Now I have a mental picture of Anji with a backful of flowers. Does she hide it under her clothes?
I still think sheep would be good. A pregnant one. You can go into the wool business though I’m not sure who would shear it for you.
OINK!! Got any apple sauce?
oops!
Sadly it poured today on the gardeners day and she won’t be here for a fortnight and she’s put her prices up. It never rains but…
Speaking of gardeners, I thought you had one already — Todd.
Todd raked up the leaves and then scarpered…. he’s only here every other weekend now that he’s in boarding school.
This is why I only have a balcony :p
oh just go for the wild look, it’s very ‘green’ the wild look
Your back is capable of having opinions independently of the rest of you?
Like – wow!
Our lawnmower is a gibbering wreck after being badly mistreated by Bear. It’s being repaired and will be in ‘lawnmower hospital’ for a good ten days. When it comes home I may have to mow the grass myself.
My garden is begining to look a mess. Lets face it, I’m too old and decrepid to do much now! My lawn has turned from velvety green to a sea of yellow; covered in dandelions!
I hate mowing the lawn too, and I have a sitting mower so I don’t need to push, but still, it sucks. I would be happy with just a balcony overlooking a park or something.
But Keith I thought you were a mere 72?
Hey there, just thought I had to go check here as I was weeding out extinct contacts on my Flickr account and found a certain Todd who had uploaded four pictures, the latest (a little boy dressed up as a Ninja or Jedi or whatever) about five years ago. Everything alright over there?
Oh, and biking in Holland is safe. We have bicycle lanes. (It’s just that the regular Dutch bike is not safe at all but never mindt that…)
Couldn’t find a comment box over there so I’m commenting in here, hope that’s fine.
My lawn needs mowing, too. And I have a fine crop of dandelions just itching to go to seed. But it won’t stop raining long enough to mow.
I am desolée.
Not.
Goats are a good way of keeping the grass down if you have no lovely flowers to protect, goats would rather eat the flowers!
Gardening is hard work, I particularly hate to have to mow the lawns but pulling weeds is quite pleasant, mostly I like watching the flowers grow!.