Sitting out on my back Verandah in Toc this morning, having some breakfast after my walk, suddenly I see a bloke on a ridermower mowing my naturestrips.
There's any number of mowing services up here, but they all have a big ute with a trailer that they transport their equipment to the customers, this bloke is just on the mower, when he finishes mine, he drives it down the road and mows another one, then another one.
We have big naturestrips up here, with mostly no footpaths on them. On a corner block, my 2 are each about 25x4 metres, I've noticed that sometimes when I come up someone's moved them but had NFI why. Mum reckons he works for the council, just rides around randomly mowing naturestrips.
The ground up here though is seriousy sodden. Dug a plant out today to move it and put another there and 8 inches down it's just mud. I've never seen it like this in my life. Usually, even in winter, below the top 2 inches the ground is like rock. Now, it's so full of moisture it just can't absorb anymore. I'd usually need to have hoses going on a timer from the start of spring, but I coiled them up back in May and haven't set them up again which is ridiculous for late November.
Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
They've been doing repair work but you still get a few really deep bastards and some of them re side by side so you can't dodge them and stay in your lane, you have to either get half in the emergency lane, or if that's buggered, half into the right lane. 
