If I ever get rich I will buy a lawnmower that works like that. There are a few in our neighbourhood and I do enjoy watching them "marching" around the lawns, even very big ones (lawns). I can imagine myself lying in my deckchair with a g+t, watching it do all the work!
Fairygirl/Daughter, animals were always there for me and before me so it was natural. They do sense fear or indecision and they do like to know you are in charge, training sheep dogs and preparing animals for the ring washing brushing oiling hooves etc all need confidence in both animal and person doing the job. At the moment I get a little Jack Russel come Corgi from next door from nine to four, they got the dog then she had to go back to work so I take him, they are totally daft with him he even sleeps in their bed, madness. Sonny was almost out of control, not now, he knows his place and the lift in my voice if he is getting excited, my neighbour thinks the improvement wonderful then tries to undo it within minutes so I am now training her.
How lazy can people get, lawn mowers sweepers? they will have automatic bottom wipers next. Even at my age the hoover is good exercise, I use it as a zimmer frame with an engine belting round the bungalow like Alonso, then the lawn with an even bigger engined zimmer, sit long enough and you will never get up.
It's not lazy it is time saving, letting you do other things while it works away. no more lazy than a toaster or a washing machine you could use a grill or a twintub. There is downsides to the rumba as they need emptying after each run pretty much and regular cleaning. On the positive side you can set them off in the morning and head out to work and come back to a freshly hoovered house.
It's quite perfect for the single man, after all it is a robot
no stairs but it won't fall down them either because of the cliff sensors. No stairs here in my cottage. There is even a remote control so you can drive it, although i've never used it to do anything other than show friends there is a remote so you can drive it. it's quite good for keeping kids occupied.
Washing machine? twin-tub? Drier?? Would that be the big iron tub in the corner with a poss Dolly and Mangle attached? Drier I have one of those, it is outside and stretches between two hooks, it did a good job Saturday, bed clothes off washed hung out dried then aired and back on the bed lovely and fresh, us widowers need to keep occupied. Toaster? as my toast would have cheese with mustard and Lee and Perins on it you need a grill, don't forget the pepper. Mod cons are for very busy people and going by the busy people around me no time to spit or garden either, what is so important that you have to save every second for some other task I ask?
Frank'Dad- I had a conversation recently, when I was out in the garden, with a 'gran' who was looking after her son's badly behaved son and small daughter. She said 'oh he doesn't have time to do the garden as he works offshore (I know people who work offshore- so- 2 weeks on and 2 weeks at home at least then...). 'He's thinking of getting someone in to do it'. I felt like saying 'why can't his wife do it then?' They've got a bit of grass (nothing else) at the front about 40 by 30 ft,a tiny back garden and virtually no plants. I said 'well it only takes about 15 minutes to do this- including getting the mower out....'
I have more grass than they do.
Go figure - as the Americans would say.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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If I ever get rich I will buy a lawnmower that works like that. There are a few in our neighbourhood and I do enjoy watching them "marching" around the lawns, even very big ones (lawns). I can imagine myself lying in my deckchair with a g+t, watching it do all the work!
I quite agree with MMP about dogs. They are happier when they know their place in the pack.
This is my German Shepherd with his security blanket. He's nearly 11 now and according to the on-line dog age calculator that is 87 in human years.
How did you get on at the vets with Max's paw MMP?
Fairygirl/Daughter, animals were always there for me and before me so it was natural.
They do sense fear or indecision and they do like to know you are in charge, training sheep dogs and preparing animals for the ring washing brushing oiling hooves etc all need confidence in both animal and person doing the job.
At the moment I get a little Jack Russel come Corgi from next door from nine to four, they got the dog then she had to go back to work so I take him, they are totally daft with him he even sleeps in their bed, madness.
Sonny was almost out of control, not now, he knows his place and the lift in my voice if he is getting excited, my neighbour thinks the improvement wonderful then tries to undo it within minutes so I am now training her.
How lazy can people get, lawn mowers sweepers? they will have automatic bottom wipers next. Even at my age the hoover is good exercise, I use it as a zimmer frame with an engine belting round the bungalow like Alonso, then the lawn with an even bigger engined zimmer, sit long enough and you will never get up.
Frank.
It's not lazy it is time saving, letting you do other things while it works away. no more lazy than a toaster or a washing machine you could use a grill or a twintub. There is downsides to the rumba as they need emptying after each run pretty much and regular cleaning. On the positive side you can set them off in the morning and head out to work and come back to a freshly hoovered house.
It's quite perfect for the single man, after all it is a robot
I am very impressed Blackest. Anything to make the dreaded housework easier. Does it do stairs, which are my biggest bug bear?
Perfect for me too.
no stairs but it won't fall down them either because of the cliff sensors. No stairs here in my cottage. There is even a remote control so you can drive it, although i've never used it to do anything other than show friends there is a remote so you can drive it. it's quite good for keeping kids occupied.
Washing machine? twin-tub? Drier??
Would that be the big iron tub in the corner with a poss Dolly and Mangle attached?
Drier I have one of those, it is outside and stretches between two hooks, it did a good job Saturday, bed clothes off washed hung out dried then aired and back on the bed lovely and fresh, us widowers need to keep occupied.
Toaster? as my toast would have cheese with mustard and Lee and Perins on it you need a grill, don't forget the pepper.
Mod cons are for very busy people and going by the busy people around me no time to spit or garden either, what is so important that you have to save every second for some other task I ask?
Frank.
Hi
I have just briefly skimmed through these posts. I would like to inform you all of a remarlable discovery I made many years ago--
Everyone is out of step except ME.
Frank'Dad- I had a conversation recently, when I was out in the garden, with a 'gran' who was looking after her son's badly behaved son and small daughter. She said 'oh he doesn't have time to do the garden as he works offshore (I know people who work offshore- so- 2 weeks on and 2 weeks at home at least then...
). 'He's thinking of getting someone in to do it'. I felt like saying 'why can't his wife do it then?' They've got a bit of grass (nothing else) at the front about 40 by 30 ft,a tiny back garden and virtually no plants. I said 'well it only takes about 15 minutes to do this- including getting the mower out....'
I have more grass than they do.
Go figure - as the Americans would say.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...