TRIMMING AROUND LAWN'S STEPPING STONES

One of the jobs in my garden that I least like doing and which gives me the most satisfaction is—wait for it—trimming around the lawn's stepping stones with my bread knife.  I used to do it with a small knife but it's a hard job for relatively small and not particularly strong hands, and I found that the serrated blade on the hefty(ish) bread knife does the job faster and less painfully.  I only do it once a year but when I do, and see how it looks in the green, weed-free lawn, I'm happy.  I know, I should get a life.  I don't think that a strimmer (or weed-whacker as they call them in Barbados) would do such a neat job.  Notice how the stepping stones are below lawn level so that my lawn mower just glides over them. 

Lawn stepping stones after trimming

Lawn stepping stones before trimming

Alfie, my beloved Ragdoll cat, (he's such an angel -mostly!) always uses the stepping stones, like I do.

As one quick-witted friend said, 'He's a copycat'.