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"Bioboffin" writes:
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| He could buy his wife the mattock and let her do the job, as she is the
| one
| who wants it done.
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| He has in fact alread ordered one. Why don't they sell them in garden
| centres?

Because garden centres cater primarily for the sort of gardener
who belives that watching Ground Force is gardening :-)

You need a rural hardware store or an agricultural suppliers.
Devizes has two places where you can buy them; I don't think
that Cambridge has any left, though it is possible that some
of the builders' merchants still have them. As they last for
ages, I don't look out for them.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.