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🐫CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 7. If you have a dose of the cameelious hump🐪

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Agree with KT53.  The UK and other western "advanced" societies have no trouble or shame poaching qualified medical staff form other countries - cheaper than training more of their own and also keeps wage costs down.   

    Our Flymos have always had spacers.  Remove blade, look behind and remove one or two of them then refit blade.   Also, make sure the inside of the Flymo shell is clean and not gunged up with sticky grass clippings as that will help it hover better.

    Grump today?  Feeling better after about of tummy bug and the bloody cold, noisy wind is back.   Freezing this morning and not much better now despite the sun.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Obelixx said:
     

    Our Flymos have always had spacers.  Remove blade, look behind and remove one or two of them then refit blade.   Also, make sure the inside of the Flymo shell is clean and not gunged up with sticky grass clippings as that will help it hover better.


    Thanks, I'll have a closer look at it.  Never thought of removing the blade.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited April 2020
    I'm sure I did the same when I had one @josusa47- fitting spacers
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Flymo spacers! I could never find them when I wanted to put them back in.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Anyone else noticed that a number of rare or first time posters are becoming fractious?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I was about to say the same thing @B3.

    Some are just plain rude, and seem to think we all have a crystal ball to hand too. I find it astonishing that they can be like that when people are merely trying to help.
    Frankly, they don't deserve any help if they behave like that  :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We are not an app😁
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    We aren't Mystic ruddy Meg either  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Thanks @Dovefromabove, but the Flymo is long gone (it was my first mower when we moved in here in 1988). I have a nice simple push-along cylinder mower now, which I hope will outlast me :)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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