| If you know anyone thinking of moving house to | | | | installed. The lawn will always be pristine - short and |
| downsize because their lawn is too large please tell | | | | green even in winter. There will be no fertiliser to |
| them about the automatic lawnmower. It is usually | | | | spread as the lawn clippings that the robot cuts are |
| the lawns that present the problem. It takes a lot of | | | | so small that they fall into the grass and provide |
| energy to push even a powered lawnmower and | | | | nutrients for the lawn. There will be no heaps of |
| many older people find lawn upkeep a chore beyond | | | | rotting grass either. |
| their capabilities. I have had one of these robots | | | | An automatic lawnmower is just that - completely |
| cutting my lawn for three summers and cannot | | | | automatic. A wire is laid, by a trained technician if |
| believe how much extra time I have for other | | | | wanted, or by an able bodied person, and it grows in |
| activities - and I do not get back ache any more | | | | to become invisible, making an enclosed area for the |
| from all the pushing and pulling that the old type | | | | robot mower to move within. |
| mower needed. | | | | The lawn size could even be increased which sounds |
| By having an automatic lawn mower, the garden | | | | illogical but the larger automatic lawnmower would |
| really can be a much less time and energy consuming | | | | quite happily cut up to 4 acres if need be. The whole |
| activity. Older people are probably happy with the | | | | garden could be all lawn with just trees. The size of |
| size of the house; after all the family need bedrooms | | | | the robot needed would depend on how much of |
| when they come to stay, but the garden, and | | | | the garden was made into lawn. |
| particularly the lawn is often too much to cope with. | | | | It is accepted that moving house is one of the most |
| An afternoon mowing is sometimes the last straw | | | | stressful events on a par with getting a divorce! An |
| which prompts the idea of downsizing. If they knew | | | | automatic lawn mower may not prevent the latter |
| of a way to get the lawn cut automatically the | | | | but this robot can certainly make the former |
| spectre of a move might never crop up. | | | | unnecessary if the only reason for a move is that |
| The robotic mower cuts the lawn by itself once | | | | the lawn needs mowing. |