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Guaranteed to make it rain: trim the large overgrown privet hedge.

Get electric hedgetrimmer out.
Start to trim (read 'massacre') the hedge back.
Manage not to electrocute self.
Manage not to poke eye out of self.
Manage not to hack off limb of self.
Manage not to open vein/artery of self.

Get halfway trhough job and

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

Thunder..
winds get up.

Decide that thunderstorm and electric hedge trimmer are not a good
combination.

Put electric hedgetrimmer away.

Tidy up trimmings from work done so far

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

all going on in the background and rain starts..

So my hedge is not looking good..

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Guaranteed to make it rain: trim the large overgrown privet hedge.

Get electric hedgetrimmer out.
Start to trim (read 'massacre') the hedge back.
Manage not to electrocute self.
Manage not to poke eye out of self.
Manage not to hack off limb of self.
Manage not to open vein/artery of self.

Get halfway trhough job and

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

Thunder..
winds get up.

Decide that thunderstorm and electric hedge trimmer are not a good
combination.

Put electric hedgetrimmer away.

Tidy up trimmings from work done so far

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

all going on in the background and rain starts..

So my hedge is not looking good..


Answer?

http://www.metcheck.com/V40/UK/FREE/lightning.asp

One thunderstorm in the Newcastle area at the moment :-((

Brilliant sunshine here on the Isle of Wight

Mike


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Guaranteed to make it rain: trim the large overgrown privet hedge.


Did ours yesterday.
I was surprised by the weather here (East lancs) today, hailstones bouncing
all over the place.


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Guaranteed to make it rain: trim the large overgrown privet hedge.

Get electric hedgetrimmer out.
Start to trim (read 'massacre') the hedge back.
Manage not to electrocute self.
Manage not to poke eye out of self.
Manage not to hack off limb of self.
Manage not to open vein/artery of self.

Get halfway trhough job and

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

Thunder..
winds get up.

Decide that thunderstorm and electric hedge trimmer are not a good
combination.

Put electric hedgetrimmer away.

Tidy up trimmings from work done so far

*BOOM*
*BOOM*

all going on in the background and rain starts..

So my hedge is not looking good..

I LOVE this post. Sooo true. But is also why I now have a petrol hedge trimmer instead.
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