Do you know the weather recently has really cheered me up.

As I made my way around the town the other day on my regular lunchtime walk the warm rays of spring sunshine really cheered me up.

It isn't just me who has been cheered up by the sunshine as my garden seems to have come on leaps and bounds in the past couple of weeks.

My tree has started coming into leaf, the clematis are budding up and the early spring bulbs have rocketed up and burst into bloom.

At the moment there are some really lovely tulips in my garden at the moment. I have added a picture of them to this blog so you can see just how lovely they really are.

The plants in my greenhouse are coming on a treat too. Just at this point in time there are lots of seedlings making their way into the world as you can see from the second picture included on this blog.

Yes, this is most definitely a wonderful time of year with all the new life that is coming into the world.

Of course the grass has also started growing.

Last weekend my neighbour bought a new lawnmower. It was one of those newfangled hover things that leaves the grass on the lawn, Personally I prefer a proper cylinder mower myself.

After walking up and down the lawn a couple of times with the mower my neighbour stood to admire the finish. The grass being cut was quite long and there were large clumps of cut grass laying on the freshly mown surface.

I stood talking to my neighbour for a couple of minutes. The topic of conversation was the poor finish left by the mower.

I started to explain that it was the way my neighbour was cutting the lawn that caused the poor finish. The proper way to use a hover mower is to cut the lawn in a clockwise circle starting at the edge.

As the blade on the mower rotates in a clockwise direction the cut grass is thrown out of the right hand side of the machine and gets cut up on the next circuit of the lawn.

There was a look of disbelief on my neighbours face but after giving it a go I was proven right.

I wonder how many more people know of that little trick to leave a clod free finish when using a hover mower?

What do you think?