OH, how I do so agree with your letter writer (July 3, Hark! the distinctive evening call of the rotary mower).
We love to sit in our garden too, weather permitting, and enjoy the evenings, with a glass or two of the grape juice, watch the fish in the pond etc. But then it starts, the Manic Mechanic to one side, cutting up cars in his back garden with a disc cutter (he wears ear-defenders), to avoid taking them to a scrapyard, and Mr 10,000 acres to the other.
Don?t really know how many acres he has but it takes him two days on a sit-on mower to cut the grass, always at the weekend. Then we get the heavy duty strimmer sounding on into the night.
Can we please exercise some restraint on the use of these gadgets at weekends and only use them at all between 9am and noon in an attempt to give some peace and quiet to those who would like to enjoy the outdoors on the so few days available?
Name and address supplied
IN reply to the letter ?Call of rotary mower etc?, one can only assume that this person tiptoes out during the day and manicures his/her lawn and hedges with well oiled nail scissors, thus avoiding any disturbance to their neighbours.
In order to ensure his/her peaceful enjoyment of their evening tipple on their patio perhaps they would like to offer their stealthy horticultural practices to those less fortunate souls who have to work nine to five five days a week and avoid rainfall at weekends.
B M Porter
St John?s Road
Horrabridge