13 April

Every autumn and winter is a gardening challenge, because massive trees over the road in a schoolyard deposit literally cubic metres of leaves up our driveway. Every year I use a leaf blower to deposit them back in the street for the Council vacuum truck, but it’s slow and tedious, there’s literally truck loads of leaves. I thought, I need something that acts as a combined vacuum cleaner and shredder. Some leaf blowers are reversible like that. Then I realised, I already have something. The lawn mower. Lawn mowers act as both cutters and vacuum cleaners, they create lift to suck the cut grass into the catcher. Duh. Early experiments were even more successful than I imagined.