Well, the mower arrived promptly. I can’t say much for the build quality, as the handles do not fix properly into the base and the safety cable snapped early on (but I’m savvy enough to use a mower safely and can easily bodge repair these things later) – but such is life when you purchase a very cheap mower made in the PRC. It doesn’t so much cut the grass as beat it into submission, but I was giving it a fairly grim acid test on our saturated and rather long lawn.
The petrol filler cap was smashed on arrival, so I’ve emailed the vendor to see if a replacement can be provided. I’ll let you know how he responds.
The main thing is that our lawn has now been cut. I’m rather pleased about this, as it was bugging me to look at it each day, and I was starting to get concerned that the lengthy sward was hiding some wild animals that might leap on me as I walked to the shed.
Month: January 2005
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Mowerman
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Recommended reading
Mark Mardell’s Africa diary, with real personal content with amusing asides. Perhaps there is hope for BBC-sponsored quasi-blogging(™ Vaughan!) after all?
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It had to happen
Subject line of a spam message just received:
All your Meds are belong to Us.(For those that have no idea what I’m talking about, read this Wikipedia entry. I really ought to revive my old email signature that said "all your blog are belong to graybo".)
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Dilithium crystals
BT business broadband borked. I’m one of the 70,000 customers that have this problem it seems – my connection has been patchy this afternoon, to say the least. Most infuriating.
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Shocking
In a shocking development, I agree with the Duchess of York. Prince Harry’s appearance at a fancy dress party in a Nazi uniform was both in keeping with the theme of the party and in keeping with the behaviour of a normal 20 year old. Even though he has some German close relatives, it does not in any way imply that he is either a Nazi or a Nazi sympathiser. Will someone please get a grip here?!
As I have said elsewhere, if he had gone to the party dressed as King Kong, would people be outraged at his implied support for giant apes swatting at biplanes from the top of the Empire State Building whilst clutching a scantily-clad Faye Wray? I don’t think so.
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Yahoo
Couple name child Yahoo! A mad Romanian story! Hurrah! We haven’t had one of these in literally ages.
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My life as an EU Commissioner
EU Commissioner for Communication, Margot Wallström, is to start a blog. As you know, I’m already a fan.
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Hold up
I’ve just heard that the NatWest branch in Barnham has been subject to an armed raid. I don’t know any more details than that at the moment, and it doesn’t seem to have been reported on any of the news services yet. It happened around 2pm today.
Whilst I was working in Barnham and living in Chichester, I used that branch as much as three or four times each week and got to know all the staff. I’m hoping that Lynne, Sandy, Sharon, Paula and everyone else there is ok. -
Obscure law
In the test match between England and South Africa that started today in Johannesburg, a no-ball was awarded against South Africa because they were fielding three men behind square on the leg side.
Who knew?