However, that made me rather wary of buying a petrol mower so I bought one
of these: http://www.enviromower.co.uk/. I've only had it a couple of
weeks but so far I'm quite impressed. I also bought one of the strimmer
attachment things and that's been quite useful (I didn't have a strimmer).
The battery life seems to be about an hour whatever I use it for. It can
be used with metal or plastic cutting equipment. So far I've only used
the
metal blade which has performed effectively (I'm not a "stripes" person, I
just want to keep the grass under control and neat).


Looks good - One of my concerns with a petrol machine is the polution caused
by the hopelessly inefficient engines they usually have..

However, i dont fancy a battery powered one - At the end of the day the
battery will wear out, leaving you with the cost of a replacement, not
something i really trust at the moment - im sure time may prove me wrong
tho.

Another question is cutting width? what to go for??

Rgds,
Dan