First and Last

This afternoon I decided to tackle the first grass cutting session of the season.  I'm not overly keen on grass cutting at the best of times, and find the first cut definitely the hardest so I'm glad to have got that particular task out of the way.  The lawn mowers have been buzzing in a lot of our neighbours' gardens lately so I really felt the time had come for me to get on with it.

It went from this,

to this in about 20 minutes.  (No, I can't see much of a difference either!)  I'm not sure, now I'm looking out of the window at the back lawn, whether it actually looks better or not - shorter, granted - but still rather a mess.  Never mind, its done.  One thing to definitely cheer about is it was the last grass cut I'll ever have to do when I've then got to empty the contents of the grass box into a plastic garden waste bag which is not much bigger than a conventional carrier bag.  I don't know which joker thought of that concept, but it was plainly someone who had never had to force bits of cut grass into a slippery plastic bag!!

Farewell garden waste bags, and a very fond hello to a garden waste wheelie bin which will be delivered any time soon.  Goodness knows why Basildon District Council have been so tardy in introducing wheelie bins as we had them in Bristol approx. 15 years ago, still - better late than never, even if we are only getting one for the garden waste and still have to use evil black plastic sacks for our household waste.  The timing couldn't have been better as this was our last garden waste sack too and I sure as hell wasn't going to be paying for any more.  I personally think the council should have been paying me for the darned inconvenience of using the bl**dy useless things.

Comments

[Claire]

Councils and their list of priorities are dirty words on our house - we have the fortnightly bin colection alternating between household and recycling, and we even have a garden waste bin although I have no idea when that is collected - it's a good job we don't have a car as the garage is full of bins! David is waging war against our (particularly ignorant and racist) Lord Mayor at the minute. When he rants the wort thing anyone can do is ignore him. The Lord Mayor has ignored him 5 times and so he's copied the emails to our local paper...oops!