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Old 28-01-2007, 09:15 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Alan Holmes Alan Holmes is offline
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"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 28/1/07 12:24, in article ,
"Kate
Morgan" wrote:

Our next door neighbours cut their lawns yesterday and this morning they
looks dreadful - the lawns not the neighbours - all wobbly lines and
lumps of grass that were too wet for the mower to pick up.
I have long wide borders and I usually crash about in the undergrowth
getting cross, this year my practical daughter suggested that I set
myself a strip of border to do every day, no more no less, just move up
the garden in an orderly fashion, how do dim mothers give birth to Mary
Poppins like daughters :-)


Actually, that's a brilliant idea and I'm going to copy it. I start in
one
bit, then see something horrendous in another bit and get diverted so
yo-yo
back and forth like a maniac. Please thank your daughter for me!

Every year I manage to leave some wooden handled tools outside all
winter, of course this morning two of them broke, I found one favorite
trowel in the bottom of a lavender bush, so now I have to grovel to HIM
to mend them for me and face another lecture :-(
So now my morning tasks are done and I am going to have lunch but first
I will go and put all my tools away :-)

I do just the same and I'm trying to make myself follow advice I was given
years ago - always stop at *least* half an hour before you intended to and
use that half hour to clean and put away tools. It helps to carry a
bucket
or similar around with you into which you can put small hand tools,
gloves,
brandy flask. ;-)


The brandy I can understand, but what on earth is all that other stuff?

Alan