Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Monday, 3 October 2016

Leaf Sucker Sucks

As a labour-saving time-efficient garden appliance the leaf sucker/shredder falls a bit short – the receptacle for the shredded leaves is fiddly to fit, even harder to take off, awkward to empty once full, and counter-intuitively, the shredding of the leaves seems to increase rather than reduce the original volume; to make matters worse today the failsafe safety mechanism (a bit of plastic on said receptacle that bridges a gap between the on/off trigger and the motor) got out of alignment (rendering the equipment perfectly safe by preventing the motor working at all), which required some jiggery-pokery with a screwdriver to sort out, the sucker coming back to life just as I was about to consign it to the scrapheap and instead fetch the rake and grabbers.

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