Meanwhile, today, my gardening exercises consisted of buying a $229 whipper snipper from bunnings and butchering the weeds (marshmallow, mainly) growing out of my little slip of front lawn.
I haven't used a whipper snipper since I was ... like 13 (dad never taught me) - so butchering is indeed the right term. I am certain it will be a scarred, ragged mess this time next year, but that's okay, I'll want to start it from scratch at some point anyway. :P
In the UK they call them strimmers, which is far less cool. Jamie couldn't believe it when I said what we call them.
Marshmallow sends such long rap roots down! They're great medicine though.
We were just talking about getting rid of the front lawn as it's struggling anyway. More natives!