I grew up in the countryside. We had about 2000 m\u00c2\u00b2 of grounds, and as I grew up, it became my responsibility to cut the grass from spring to autumn. No need to say that I hated it. It took a good part of te afternoon, and I thought I had better things to do. But I was getting paid for it, so I did it.<\/p>\n
In Pabu, we have about 700m\u00c2\u00b2 of grounds, mostly grass. That’s at least 10 times what we had in Cardiff. I made the most of the sunny weather to cut the grass today. It took almost 2 hours, because it had grown quit a bit. But I am ashamed to admit that I quite enjoyed it. After a part of the day in the study, it was good to be outside, enjoying the sunshine, talking to the lady next door, and to a little girl from across the road who was playing with Jean-Baptiste and Maxime. There we are, I enjoyed being in the garden. I must be getting old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I grew up in the countryside. We had about 2000 m\u00c2\u00b2 of grounds, and as I grew up, it became my responsibility to cut the grass from spring to autumn. No need to say that I hated it. It took a good part of te afternoon, and I thought I had better things to do. … Continue reading “Cutting the grass”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}