Mallard Lodge

Just mowed chicken pen, all the bits surrounding it and a patch of lawn beside the veranda. I have a feeling that our new petrol strimmer may be running a bit rich. Petrol cap said 2-stroke 40:1 so I mixed up 125ml of 2-stroke oil with 5l of regular unleaded and have been using it ever since. I checked my calculations since. Don't know what I can be doing wrong. Ride-on is down to it's last 2l so may need a trip down the road with Jerry McCann (disc: that's a Jerry Can - and not Maddie's Dad) before Friday. Friday I intend to Mow the big lawn again. I've been leaving it 2 weeks between mows recently as it's taking quite a while for the grass to recover from the drought. Noticably greener than it was a few weeks ago though. Only half of the clover has been effected by the selective stuff our neighbour sprayed on it about 3 weeks ago... all other broadleaf weeds have been erradicated - although I may have seen one dandilion on it earlier. Still - not bad for a half acre. I'd be tempted to leave clover to cover the lawn as it remains green when everything else dies off, but there are no selective weedkillers for grass+clover. This may seem like a lazy cop-out and some may say that striving for perfection only leads to disappointment, but I think it's worth a shot.

A few months ago I bought a potted parsley plant for my window sill in my previous house.... it took so much water and TLC to keep the darn thing alive, in the end it died and I felt a failure. Today I spent about an hour trying to erradicate parsley that had seeded in a bed that I want to prepare for annuals next year. It was about to seed again so I took the sheers to it and howed out most of last years seedlings. Is this Karma? Parsley Korma anyone?