One of the jobs in my garden that I least like doing and which gives me the most satisfaction is—wait for it—trimming around the lawn's stepping stones with my bread knife. I used to do it with a small knife but it's a hard job for relatively small and not particularly strong hands, and I found that the serrated blade on the hefty(ish) bread knife does the job faster and less painfully. I only do it once a year but when I do, and see how it looks in the green, weed-free lawn, I'm happy. I know, I should get a life. I don't think that a strimmer (or weed-whacker as they call them in Barbados) would do such a neat job. Notice how the stepping stones are below lawn level so that my lawn mower just glides over them.
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| Lawn stepping stones after trimming |
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Lawn stepping stones before trimming
Alfie, my beloved Ragdoll cat, (he's such an angel -mostly!) always uses the stepping stones, like I do.
As one quick-witted friend said, 'He's a copycat'. |
