Autumn cutlery 1

We already had some garden snippers on a six feet pole, but the reach was maybe four feet from the hand, not enough for some of our snipping jobs. Plus the pole was starting to bend, a DIY mend had made it rather easy to scratch the hands and it could not cope with much more than a quarter of an inch. Plus there were some long outstanding long range snipping jobs.

So down to Chessington Garden Centre to see what they could do. Which was not much choice, but the snippers illustrated came on an eight feet pole with maybe a six feet reach. And the nifty bit was the pulley arrangement which means that you can cut through maybe an inch of twig without much bother. The down side being the weight of the sturdy snippers, quite a lot when on the end of a long pole.

Wolf from Germany so rather dear, but I think they will earn their keep. You would not have got much gardener for the money, which would have been the alternative.

Having got some plus points for imminent gardening job, I then got them all cancelled by taking the left hand path home, down Chessington Road, getting well snarled up in road works and school-out traffic. It had been perfectly obvious that I should have taken the right hand path.