A long time...no blog....

I like your lawn mower. I think this type make a lovely sound on a summer's afternoon :)
People are lazy today, and want something easy to use, but those things always have drawbacks.

I'm sorry to hear about your vandalism. I hope your camera acts as a deterrent.

Oh that takes me back, I used to love my pushalong mower and have to agree it was a far more pleasant noise to hear than what we use now, alas I couldn't use one now as it would take all day to cut the lawn and never work if said lawn was wet, lol..
Rogi I cannot print my thoughts on seeing your vandalism, they need a biddy good clip around the earhole and be made to pick up every shard of glass by hand, lets hope the dummy camera works for you.
BTW Rogi, a piece of local news for you, think back to your childhood, there's uproar in our old town at the moment, one of our famous landmarks has been vandalised and its not even one of our Ancient Charms, turn left at Bath row, looking towards the town bridge, can you picture the huge Willow tree on the point in the meadows, its featured in many photographs of Stamford and also many paintings, the council in their wisdom have had the audacity to give it a mega prune and all we have left at the moment is a skeleton,( it does look ugly but having one in my garden I know how quickly it will grow back,) I have not seen so many letters in the Mercury about a tree in many a year,its upset so many people, obviously it will grow back and be just as photogenic but its really created a mega fuss, in fact more bother than moving the town football ground has, LOL.....

Thanks Hywel and Lincslass for your comments. I am hoping that the camera will help, but there are 2 problems...the garden is a bit off the beaten track with a disused railway line just at the back of my garden and the kids..teenagers or even younger go there for their amusement...whatever that may be and can easily get into the garden, now it is a bit harder because the trees and brambles have now grown again and made it more difficult, the 2 problem is...my elderly neighbour has Alzheimer and doesn´t realy know what she s doing....often shouting at me saying that I have broken into her house again and stolen things...and to be honest it could be her that does damage at my place...but I have never seen her do it.

Lincslass: I remember the willow tree at the point of the medow very well, we used to sit under it fishing, going on the single track railways line from Seaton...via Morcott, North Luffenham etc. Then when I got a bit older I used to go to the YMCA oposite the bus station, also swimming in the swimming baths near the railway station....that is going back 50 years or more !!!!. I have more memories of Stamford if you are interested.

Sorry to read of the vandalism Rogi - I'm sure the camera will work. My son used to get local lads that would scratch his car and even spit on it - all jealousy because they don't want to work hard to pay for a car. When he got his new BMW, he bought a camera and had it installed, since then he's had no bother at all. These kind of folks are just cowards really!
Liking the new mower - there is something so calming about hearing a push and pull mower. I think it also takes us back to childhood when there was no electric mowers.
Like your little Bellis in the wall trough and your shrub, which I think is a Tamarix, is gorgeous!

Hallo Scottish. Yes the shrub is a Tamarix, it´s a pity that it is only this colour for a few weeks. Re the lawn mower...when I was a kid living in Rutland my parents had a fair sized house in a small village overlooking the Welland valley and a very big garden, my old dad was very proud about his garden, we had several lawns that had to look imaculate...well they always say that the front lawn is the visiting card to any garden and I remember that we had a huge heavy push mower with a large metal roller at the back and a very big heavy grass box at the front....I believe it came from Gamages store in London...my dad worked for them before WW 2, but to earn my keep at home I had to mow the lawns about once a week...no time for me to play on a saturday afternoon when the grass was dry....happy memories.

Well I hope it can be sorted out Rogi. If it's your neighbour, you may have a problem.

down the bottom of the garden try to keep plenty of deterrent plants like roses, thistles, nettles etc

The camera was a big waste of money...between 7.am and 16.30 pm today somebody had a "smashing" time down in my garden again...never mind eh !!!!.

Rogi - sorry to read this. Perhaps now it's time to get a real camera!

Sorry about your damage. It looks like plastic on your greenhouse Rogi and a piece of crazy paving, so maybe the old lady next door is heaving bits about in her dotage? I like your garden and the tamarisk tree. Looks miles better than the one my mum had in her front garden. I always thought the best part of it was the name. We just just had a tree cut down in the street outside because the dear little kiddies kept shying crab apples at the windows.