If I hadn't treated myself to a new 'toy' this Spring, I wouldn't have been able to mow. We lost our yard man for the place last year and then @winstonalden stepped in and helped me, as he was a 'work at home' individual like me (before his dream city job) so this year it was either find someone reputable and also cost effective (hard in my area in Summer) or do it myself. I bought an very small 23 lb electric non cord battery mower, It is a dream!
I joke it's like hoovering the lawn more than mowing. It catches the clippings so I do have to stop to empty it, but my bamboo there is LOVING it. I read that grass clipping mulched directly on them increases their vigor and as I'm trying to make a bamboo mini forest, huzzah!
Monty has always been a character, but he is getting so old. He used to wander off onto the beach alone and he'd eat fiddler crabs (the tiny little fellows) now he needs me to get up and down the steps to the beach, old age. However he still treats like anything vertical as his personal watering post including chair and table legs in Toad Hall, wretched little creature, but we love him all the same.
I hope you enjoyed dinner, I am waiting to smell coffee from the kitchen so I can have a morning cuppa.