"David Hill" wrote

Managed to get my grass cut at last, it's last cut was sept 2011, I started
last July but the cutter bar broke, and by the time it was fixed the
monsoon season had started. Now I have to pick it up before the rains hit.
Yesterday I saw the first Brimstone butterfly of the year, and today out
the field there was a dandy lion, buttercup, daisy chickweed and mouse
eared chickweed all in flower.
Could this be Spring testing the water?
Lastly, a couple of years ago I bought a 6.5Hp Tiller/Rotovator With
Forward and Reverse Drive. on Ebay, the idea was to use it for rotovating
the paths between the dahlia beds, well it got around 18 hours work the
first year, last year it got about 2 hours, last was in Sept.
This afternoon I thought I'd knock the cobwebs out of it, it started 4th
pull, and then did about half an hour before I was knackered from all the
work today as well as a hospital visit after lunch.
It is very basic but There is a place for it, it's used with me almost as a
mechanical hoe, 1 forward gear and 1 reverse. No throttle, you set a fixed
speed.

Yes, did the first mow of our grass yesterday and got the early and second
early potatoes in down the allotment together with the onion sets and
shallots. Rain is forecast so I wanted to get them in before the ground got
too wet again.
We have an ageing Honda 21 rotovator, only goes forward, but it does the job
and always starts without a problem. It's also light enough for me to just
lift it in and out of the Landrover.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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