Clover Lawns

I've just mowed the lawns today.. all of them. I mowed the big lawn first at number 5 setting on the ride-on and then at number 3. I've been in two minds whether to keep clover in the lawn, to encourage it and to sow seed where there is none. Until the 1950's clover in lawns was considered the height of excellence. It was only with the introduction of broad leaf herbicides in the late 50s and 60s that clover started it's decline in favour. Climate change as it is - causing drier summers may bring clover back into fashion as everybody loves a green lawn and it will help - yes you guessed it - the dwindling bee population (only if allowed to flower). Other reasons that I may start to encourage it is that it is totally immune to dog patches and it totally wins out over weeds. Looking at it, I'd have a nicer lawn and save about £100 a year on herbicides and dog-rocks. I feel a bit silly now having had the lawn sprayed about a month ago - however the existing clover was hardly affected. Probably just as well. Anyway, best time to sow clover seed is early spring so I have a while to make up my mind. In the mean time I'll just manually remove other weeds using the weed removal tool.