On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:02:09 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2013-04-10 11:06:20 +0100, David Hill said:

On 10/04/2013 10:18, Sacha wrote:
According to today's Country Life a British man walks 224 miles behind a
lawnmower during his lifetime! Bet that's cheered you all up!

Not a lot really
20 years is 1.12 miles a year, so cutting 20 times a year give you
around 480 yards a cut.
So a 18 inch cut (not allowing for overlap) would give you a lawn of
around 30f by 90ft.
When I was teaching Mobility to visually impaired people I used to walk
well over 1000 miles a year (5 miles a day, 5 days a week 25 x 4 weeks
is 100 miles a month) and many days were well over 5 miles.
I reckon that every time I cut all my grass here I walk a good country
mile, and that's with a 30 inch cut.

I feel tired just reading that!

The council have been and mowed the 'grass' verges today. The grass
looked really dead before they did it and you couldn't tell they'd
been.
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