To URG: Advice required for eabowden, who wants a rotary mower of
the hover or roller kind, and uttered the words "Flymo", "Compact",
and "Mower" in the same breath, thereby summoning devils from my
memory which I had thought long exorcised.

wrote:
Trouble is I have a shingle/loose stone path, so the second a cat or
fox or even a son kicks a stone onto the lawn and it gets between the
blade and the cutting edge the cut is ruined. Must have a rotary I am
afraid

How big is the shingle (is it gravel) ? I find that a cylinder mower
generally cuts over the top of gravel, unless it's quite big stuff.
Put some path edgings in to make it less likely that your path will
get on your lawn. Get a second-hand cylinder mower. Get a rotary on
wheels, or a nice light hover that isn't an effing great heavy lump
of a lbooyd silly thing masquerading as a lawn-mower. Get a scythe
and a rake! Get anything else! *You can be saved!*

I'm sorry, but *really*, these things. I've added uk.rec.gardening,
who may have some knowledge of the F**** C****** Rotary Mower.