Thank you Scott

[martinw-48]

Scott no empathy was just on TV wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
Thanks to this man that has no empathy I will have the worst Christmas ever.
I will be receiving cash for Christmas from my mum and sister and all of it will be spent paying for my lawn to be cut and edges trimmed.
So instead of getting some relief from a constantly tight budget it's just the same thing.
Oh well, good thing I'm such a pessimist because it's nothing I aren't already expecting.
I know that Christmas is a stressful time for most but for me a normal Christmas is stress free and time to visit family and friends and have a break from the rest of the year

Merry Christmas to all here though

[imastawka]

Martin, have you thought about moving into somewhere smaller?

A unit perhaps.    Surely that much land around you is unnecessary.

I know there's probably not that much available in the town where you live, but this mowing cost is excessive, to say the least.

[tasfleur]

Martin, I wish we lived nearby, if we did, we would cut your lawns for you xxx

A stress free Christmas is the best thing and that's how we have worked it for a long time.  May the new year bring you something very special Martin .... 

                                                          

[martinw-48]

Stawka, I own my house and I wouldn't get enough for it to move.
If I was lucky I'd get fifty for it then after fees I'd be lucky to have forty five.
Nothing you can buy with that

[martinw-48]

Thanks tas

[martinw-48]

I'm looking at another thirteen months of the Idiopathic Brachial Neuritis and pretty much another two years maybe more of the Adhesive Capulitis of the shoulder.
Next year will just be more of the same but with a reduction in pain and hopefully an increase in the range of movement by this time next year.
I just have to put my life on hold for the time being because it's a long tunnel

[imastawka]

Martin, didn't realise you owned your place.

Thought you were renting.    My bad for assuming.

I know it's ecologically unfriendly, but I'd go the scorched earth policy and poison the heck out it, or at least some of it to get that bill down.

[lyndal1838]

Martin how much land has to be mowed?

Have you tried using a Community notice board to advertise for someone willing to do the mowing.....it might suit some unemloyed person or someone wanting  bit of extra money, especially if they can use your mower.

I hope you are not using Jim's Mowing......they are scandalously overpriced.

[martinw-48]

Not using Jim's mowing.
I know they're more expensive.
Using a local business
To comply with the local fire abatement laws I just have to pay.
Normally it would have stopped growing by now but we're getting a lot of unseasonal rain

[lyhargr_0]

Lawn mowing costs in this town are no cheaper than anywhere else and never try getting some assistance from the local council Home Help service 'cause it ain't going to happen.

People who dont live in the bush really have NO idea how limited the services  are for those who need them