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    Fed up with raking leaves?

    Someone is picking all the leaves off the trees in Parliament one-by-one - Lists - Weird News - The Independent

    No really, they are.



    "The leaves are removed each winter as a more time-efficient alternative to raking fallen leaves."

    And it's not 1st April
    Last edited by mudskipper; 15 November 2014, 10:44.

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    I wouldn't fancy doing those big feckers in the background.

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      #3
      Originally posted by mudskipper View Post
      Someone is picking all the leaves off the trees in Parliament one-by-one - Lists - Weird News - The Independent

      No really, they are.



      "The leaves are removed each winter as a more time-efficient alternative to raking fallen leaves."

      And it's not 1st April
      Can they come around and do my garden?

      I've given up until the trees in the garden have finished I'll then go and sort the leaves out
      "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

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        #4
        Originally posted by norrahe View Post
        Can they come around and do my garden?

        I've given up until the trees in the garden have finished I'll then go and sort the leaves out
        Set your lawnmower on the highest cut setting and use it to vacuum your leaves up. It will mulch them at the same time for you to spread in your beds or for the composer heap. Use a sprinkling of Garrotta to start off the composting process and add your kitchen scraps, egg shells to the heap (no meat or fish though). GQT 🍁🌿🍂🌾🍀🌱🌲🌳🌹🔯
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          #5
          Originally posted by Scruff View Post
          Set your lawnmower on the highest cut setting and use it to vacuum your leaves up. It will mulch them at the same time for you to spread in your beds or for the composer heap. Use a sprinkling of Garrotta to start off the composting process and add your kitchen scraps, egg shells to the heap (no meat or fish though). GQT 🍁🌿🍂🌾🍀🌱🌲🌳🌹🔯
          I wish, in cloggers I have a postage stamp garden with no lawn. Well compared to my garden in blighty its postage stamp.

          Will just have to rake em up, nowt much else I can do.
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            #6
            Originally posted by norrahe View Post
            I wish, in cloggers I have a postage stamp garden with no lawn. Well compared to my garden in blighty its postage stamp.

            Will just have to rake em up, nowt much else I can do.
            I wonder when these will be on sale

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              #7
              Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

              "The leaves are removed each winter as a more time-efficient alternative to raking fallen leaves."

              And it's not 1st April
              The most amusing part of the story is that the leaves are picked of the trees and dropped on the ground before being collected.
              "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                #8
                Originally posted by zeitghost
                Some twonk was on the PM programme divulging the info that they can't say how much this costs.
                It's apparently cheaper than getting one of the 2 gardeners they employ collecting the leaves up as they fall down.
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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