i cut my hedge. with shears. snip snip. all of it. Debbie from 2 doors along came over and asked if i was 'seriously' going to do it all by hand. i did. when i got to the other side, right to the end, someone from 4 doors along came down and asked if i would like to borrow his electric clippers... i asked the boyf if he wanted to do it and he lost some of his sulk and cut back the hedge even more (i liked it fluffy, it is now a box) preluding all this the boyf got in a mood with me because i wanted to do it by hand... and he wanted to do it by electric. we dont own electric. i told him if he wanted to, he could go buy one. he said he didnt have the money for such a thing. he said he couldnt understand why i kept rubbing that in. i said i couldnt understand why it couldnt be done by hand.

oh well. its done now and the man 4 doors up says we can borrow the clippers whenever we need to :)