well today didn't start well ....

****ing computers !!

....back on steam again tonight

.jeez it is slow
was going to be one of those days

Pam'd been wielding her favorite weapon when it suddenly wasn't doing what it does best - kill grass...
pretty rapidly sussed the main suspect .... zero drive to the head .... caused by ....

this was going to take some sorting .... particularly as the bloody thing was a hollow tube about a mil thick, squashed into a square

so .... fill the hole for starters ...
after I'd ground it down to size to fit and hammered it home, 'fore lopping the head off it and giving it some hot stick treatment ....

this was thin ... but got there ... and sadly this is a tad out of focus ...
but worked a treat


Husqy back together to fight another day ... L.E.S. were quoting 50 quid for a new one ... but didn't have one
next up was Dane time ....
was gonna do it yesterday, but the battery that'd been on charge for a day (and had been kept up over the winter -- no,
I ain't going there 

) was lacking in
the kick in the boll*x dept , sufficiently to wind her over enough, to wake the Dane from its slumbers, so I'd ordered a new one on line yesterday, after sussing a price locally, at 57 quid, with only a 1 yr warranty .... I thought £42 with next day and 2 years sounded a lot better, for a
better battery ....

heart sank when I see it had been entrusted to ****ing Yodel, but I was amazed when it arrived at lunchtime, despite tracking reporting it was still in the Nantgarew depot at 12.00


so ....
out he came for an assault on the grass bank beside the drive way .. Dane
versus 8-10" of green stuff
the match/assault/battle was going well 'til about half time, when it suddenly became Grass 1 - Dane

mental note to self .. take the belt off for over - wintering .. 's one hell of a Zebedee putting up sooooome struggle with it ... took some fighting back on after installing a new one from stock


Druid rule #1 ... always have two spares in stock for each mower .... you just know you'll need one - usually on a Sunday



so by the end of the match, was Dane 2 - grass 1 ..... got it all mowed

before I'd finished the tricky bank on t'other side of the drive, Pam'd appeared with a rake ... I was gonna leave it dry a day or two, make it a bit lighter

... but there were heaps poping up all over

so parked the Dane and grabbed a barrow... 6 solidly stuffed/packed barras later
got about a third of it sorted by tea time ....
the rest is a
mañana jobbie ...... 's a lorra grass



and i was well and truly bloody 'ungry