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Omg! I've seen it all now - my neighbour is vacuuming his patio....

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GreenDragone · 20/04/2019 20:06

& he's doing a really conscientious job of it too. I came to the window to see what the high-pitched noise is that's been going on for ages Hmm only to see the ndn paying particular attention to vacuum his patio just so... Bloody hell how long does it take? It's really noisy!

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Byebyefriend · 20/04/2019 20:07

I use to work for someone that vacuumed his patio

hazeyjane · 20/04/2019 20:10

I used to live opposite a bloke who used an electric handheld mixer to turn over the earth in his garden. I couldn't take my eyes of him doing it as I thought I must be hallucinating.

Toolchest13 · 20/04/2019 20:12

The man in the house opposite me sweeps the street. It’s a dead end so he spends ages sweeping all the dust into a corner. Trouble is it ends up all over my car! I caught him trying to get the moss of my driveway the other day.

Grumpbum123 · 20/04/2019 20:12

That is genius

Farmerswifey12 · 20/04/2019 20:13

I have artificial grass and I hoover that Confused

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 20/04/2019 20:13

@hazeyjane I have to saw I quite like the ingenuity of that one!

FormerlyFrikadela01 · 20/04/2019 20:14

Do you live next to my parents becasue my dad Hoover's the patio sometimesGrin

jacksonmaine · 20/04/2019 20:15

I may try it! It seems a good idea on a very dry day.

sackrifice · 20/04/2019 20:15

This is quite outing but when we had a community garden I had a hand held hoover and would vacuum up the dandelion seed heads as soon as they opened and would empty it straight into the wheely bin. It helped us keep the dandelion numbers down. It was a stroke of genius if I do say so myself.

GreenDragone · 20/04/2019 20:15

Loving the hand-held mixer!

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Thegirlwithnousername · 20/04/2019 20:16

I looked out my son's window this morning and saw the lady next door on her hands and knees vacuuming the fake grass with her Henry hoover. It must be the day for hoovering outside.

shouldwestayorshouldwego · 20/04/2019 20:16

Once used a bread knife to cut the lawn. Oh the joys of a student hovel house at the end of a tenancy.

Still18atheart · 20/04/2019 20:16

This is the sort of thing my boss would do Hmm

Oblomov19 · 20/04/2019 20:17

Hoover our patio and fake grass weekly. It's ds2's job. Can't understand what all the MN shock is all about.

MyNameIsJane · 20/04/2019 20:17

Sackrifice - genius!

1MillionSelfiesTakenByMyKids · 20/04/2019 20:20

I admit I did the same thing to the decking today. It was covered in dry dross and obvs with decking you can only sweep back and forth, not side to side so I had to use the vac. I felt like a right twat doing it mind

Notthecarwashagain · 20/04/2019 20:20

I vac my fake grass with an old Henry. I do the slabs too if I they look a bit grubby- the birds keep digging up between them and leaving mess everywhere!

NannyRed · 20/04/2019 20:30

“I’ve seen it all”, but....

have you seen 3000 naked people painted blue? (Sea of Hull)
Fire jugglers dressed as Cowboys n Indians?
A Japanese man doing impressions of the hunchback of Notre Dame outside notes dame cathedral?
The cast of the walking dead having a cigarette break with zombies in full on walkers make up?

I’ve told you a million times, don’t exaggerate! 😜

GarethSouthgatesWaistcoat · 20/04/2019 20:34

It would never occur to me to hoover the patio! Intriguing!

I love the hand mixer Shock

The bread knife sounds arduous!

madcatladyforever · 20/04/2019 20:39

I cut the lawn edges with scissors.

llangennith · 20/04/2019 20:43

I need to buy a Henry..,

callkiki · 20/04/2019 20:54

Is it possible that it's a garden hoover? I have one that vacuums up leaves and mulches them and I empty the bag into my compost bin for quicker composting.

Troels · 20/04/2019 21:16

We had a deck that Dh put fake grass on so the kids could play out barefoot and he used to vacuum it. I used to tell him we are officially the crazy family who vacuum the deck.

PotteryLady · 20/04/2019 21:20

I have a Henry especially for building work and hoovering the patio and decking! I'm the mad neighbour it seems 🤪

Hushnownobodycares · 20/04/2019 21:20

Can you ask him if he'll do mine, OP? Grin

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