Nel wrote:

I never got round to cutting the lawn for one last time before winter.
However, today seems quite a nice day and for once I'm not running around
for other people!!

So are there any problems with cutting the grass so late into the year?
My latest mowing of my lawn when I lived in the UK, was on Boxing Day,
and I also remember my first the next year was the 3rd January. Just
had the blades a bit higher than summer, and waited till the grass was
dry enough, using a rotary means you can cut it a bit wetter than with
a cylinder.