huskyhall

It’s Friday the 4th of September 2009. A mysterious package has arrived. It’s on a double width pallet and is well packed with polythene and cardboard.



Here it is unwrapped. A brand new ride on mower. Started first time too. You can see the new mown grass stuck to the tyres.



It comes with a host of luxuries, such as lights which come on automatically when it gets dark, an electric starter, a cute little battery charger which would look more at home charging a mobile phone and a thing that bleeps when the grass box is full.

Here it is at the gate.



Although only 2 wheel drive it seems perfectly capable of propelling itself up the slopes at Husky Hall on wet grass, and it's possible to run through the garden in record time, rather than taking two hours with the Flymo. It mows and hoovers up long wet grass which would stall most other machines I've used without any sense that the engine is labouring and it's cute too.