I was thinking of all my poor, long-suffering readers who had obviously had enough of my lawn snobbery rants when I decided to develop this new blog.

I know, some of you think I'm far too anal-retentive when it comes to keeping my REEL (pronounced REAL) mower in tip-top order for the weekly joy of mowing the lawns. So, I've decided to save you a quick click-through and created a new blog that looks at everything to do with lawns, mowers and everything in between.

Those who want to visit it from time to time can, while those who think they have better things to do than care about watching the grass grow can read more informed posts here. I'll leave it up to you and I promise I won't rant about lawn at gardeningtipsnideas anymore - well not as much anyway.