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

[GreenDragone]

& 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 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!

I use to work for someone that vacuumed his patio

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.

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.

That is genius

I have artificial grass and I hoover that

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

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

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

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.

Loving the hand-held mixer!

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.

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

This is the sort of thing my boss would do

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

Sackrifice - genius!

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

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!

“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! 😜

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

I love the hand mixer

The bread knife sounds arduous!

I cut the lawn edges with scissors.

I need to buy a Henry..,

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.

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.

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

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