Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
Asking my 10 year old daughter to cut the grass for 2.5 hours a week is pushing the boundaries.

My mower is 18 years old, so it is not going to last forever, and you still need a proper mower for the first cut of the year.
I was doing it from age six. Although it wasn't a big lawn, about 25 foot by 25. No power mower though had to push it along, and rake up the cuttings since my father had got the mower for free off a neighbour but the collector had been lost.

I think I was about 14 before my old man sprung for a hover mower.

In the summer of '77 we killed all the grass playing football on it. My father was working overseas and my mother would not stop going on about how angry he would be when he got back. So I dug up the whole thing and re-seeded it. I was 8 years old.

My grandad came over and said 'The birds will eat all that seed' and showed me to make some bird scarers by putting aluminium foil on sticks and dotting them round the lawn. Showed me mind, didn't offer to help me do it. Lawn did mostly grow back in time.