Battery lawn mowers

That looks a very fine lawn Alan. A good job done my the mower and the operator. My lawn doesn't have that lovely green grass but what there is of it, plus the moss, looks OK when it's cut.

I'm still in a dilemma as to whether to press the 'Buy Now' button for a mower but I think I'm getting close. :)

Here's my garden. The photo was taken a couple of years ago but a bit further into the year by the look of it:

Mart

What a lovely garden - it reminds me of our previous house which we downsized from 3 years ago when we sold up and moved into a small retirement estate where you have to be more than 58 years old to buy property. Kids and pets are not allowed and we never see a cat in the garden. Andsome would love it here. I was no longer able to do much DIY or look after our large garden and the big house was proving too much for my wife to manage.

I'm so glad we moved when we did - I don't think we could face the upheaval now that we are that bit older and less fit.

We now have a very nice and spacious 2 bed house in a road of just 15 properties that is self managed. We are all shareholders of the managing company of which I am the director. Although all the properties are freehold, we all pay a monthly service charge to meet the communal costs which includes external maintenance of all properties, garages and fences, gardening, buildings and contents insurance, maintenance of the large landscaped communal areas, the private road etc plus window cleaning and general administration. I don't let the gardeners near my lawn - other than when we are on holiday - it's the one thing I enjoy doing myself.

We are 200 yards from a row of shops which includes a post office/newsagents, restaurants, butchers, bakers, greengrocers, hairdressers, barbers, carpet shop and a Spar mini market. There is a charity shop for a local hospice which my wife works at 1 day a week. We are off a main road with buses to Solihull and Birmingham. We are 2 miles from Solihull hospital and 1 mile from our doctors. We even have an undertakers 200 yards away.

What more does an 80 year old want?

I don't think I'll cut the grass after all. I'll sell up and come and live where you do. :)

Well, I bought a cordless mower. I didn't go for for the Rotak in the end. I bought a Gtech Falcon. It was a close run thing but I went for the Gtech mainly because it had a comparable width of cut (43cm) to the corded mower I have (40cm). I hope I've done the right thing because at £349, it's the most expensive mower I've ever bought.

Hope so Mart. Happy mowing  :;smile:

My back garden

Had a few changes since this one was taken

Another one

Beautiful Jimmy 

Thank you Goldie--a lot of credit goes to my wife who is Garden crazy

Tell her it looks smashing Jimmy 

Each to his or her own, of course.
But I have not mowed a lawn in over twenty years.
I pay a bloke who mows, trims edges, uses a blower, disposes of cut grass, leaves etc etc.

If I add up the cost of buying and maintaining a mower and a whipper-sniper and a blower - blades, fuel, running repairs and value my own time,
it's cheap.  
I can sit happily on the deck watching the bloke sweat in the Australian sun as I sip on a chilled glass of fine Western Australian Semillon ..........

As long as I can find the front door, that's fine.


I am also totally committed to the philosophy "if ya can't eat it, don't grow it".
More than satisfied to enjoy the pretty flowers and such which my neighbours spend half their lives tending
and the native flora which abounds here.

goats are best!

davo wrote:

goats are best!

 ..but I think they eat everything else too don't they, including garden gloves and boots if you leave them laying about. Maybe a sheep would be better? :)

Ha ha love it Mart  :;smile: