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    Smile Overgrown garden .Recommendations invited please.

    We have a property for sale and the rear garden is now overgrown .Initially,the lawn needs cutting and borders weeding but would like it maintained regularly until sold.
    It is a very basic garden with a medium size rectangular lawn.No hedges.
    We have telephoned many locally advertised garden maintainance people but they have either never returned our calls or are too busy.
    We would be grateful for any recommendations for a reliable person who would be interested in the job and able to start it soon.
    13.45.Thank you for your helpful reply gsgsgs, and am still seeking further recommendations from forum members please.
    Saturday 23 May.Thank you to all for your recommendations and advice. This forum is usually my first port of call for help and is always successful.
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    Quote Originally Posted by seck View Post
    We have a property for sale and the rear garden is now overgrown .Initially,the lawn needs cutting and borders weeding but would like it maintained regularly until sold.
    It is a very basic garden with a medium size rectangular lawn.No hedges.
    We have telephoned many locally advertised garden maintainance people but they have either never returned our calls or are too busy.
    We would be grateful for any recommendations for a reliable person who would be interested in the job and able to start it soon.
    Thank you for your help.
    Myself and a couple of neighbours use Ian Parry 07780 528844 pgsouthport@gmail.com

    Reliable and does a good job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsgsgs View Post
    Myself and a couple of neighbours use Ian Parry 07780 528844 pgsouthport@gmail.com

    Reliable and does a good job.
    Just wondering - not speaking English on a day-to-day basis - but why have people started to misuse the word myself when the word (or letter if you prefer) I is correct and so much easier?
    Myself use... is surely incorrect?
    Age is simply a matter of mind - age doesn't matter if you don't mind

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derek H View Post
    Just wondering - not speaking English on a day-to-day basis - but why have people started to misuse the word myself when the word (or letter if you prefer) I is correct and so much easier?
    Myself use... is surely incorrect?
    No idea, I didn't give it any thought?

    "A couple of neighbours and I" is probably the correct way to have phrased me reply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsgsgs View Post
    No idea, I didn't give it any thought?

    "A couple of neighbours and I" is probably the correct way to have phrased me reply.
    Age is simply a matter of mind - age doesn't matter if you don't mind

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    Quote Originally Posted by seck View Post
    We have a property for sale and the rear garden is now overgrown .Initially,the lawn needs cutting and borders weeding but would like it maintained regularly until sold.
    It is a very basic garden with a medium size rectangular lawn.No hedges.
    We have telephoned many locally advertised garden maintainance people but they have either never returned our calls or are too busy.
    We would be grateful for any recommendations for a reliable person who would be interested in the job and able to start it soon.
    Thank you for your help.
    You could always do what a colleague of mine did. He'd been ill in hospital, came back to a front garden full of tall weeds. However,it had been dry for ages, so he decided to burn it off. Sprinkled petrol over the crisp weeds, then stood on his doorstep, lit a match and tossed into the garden.
    There was a loud 'whump', a bright flash....and the weeds were still standing and he had singed eyebrows....and the neighbours came out to see what had happened.
    So...don't do that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Snig's foot View Post
    You could always do what a colleague of mine did. He'd been ill in hospital, came back to a front garden full of tall weeds. However,it had been dry for ages, so he decided to burn it off. Sprinkled petrol over the crisp weeds, then stood on his doorstep, lit a match and tossed into the garden.
    There was a loud 'whump', a bright flash....and the weeds were still standing and he had singed eyebrows....and the neighbours came out to see what had happened.
    So...don't do that!
    Some people do the strangest things, reminds of the guy who had a wasp’s nest under the eaves of a thatched roof, decided to tackle the nest with a gas fired weed burner, that went well!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by gsgsgs View Post
    Myself and a couple of neighbours use Ian Parry 07780 528844 pgsouthport@gmail.com

    Reliable and does a good job.
    Thank you very much for responding....I will give him a ring now.

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    If I was schizophrenic could I use " Myself and I" ?

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    Overgrown garden. Recommendations requested.

    Could I ask if anyone can recommend a gardener as per the initial request please?
    I have only had one genuine response so far and would really appreciate your help.

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    P.m sent
    There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Little Londoner View Post
    If I was schizophrenic could I use " Myself and I" ?
    If you were schizophrenic you could of course use whatever you like. I hope someone quotes me since you don't like me replying to your questions. But I only want to help you in your efforts to write English correctly.
    Age is simply a matter of mind - age doesn't matter if you don't mind

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    I suppose you could also consider it as good exercise I have a very ill friend who sets herself a target of a square yard a day has done wonders and feels better mentally.

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    Oh dear the Grammar Police are on the prowl again.

    I wish that WAS all I had to worry about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by local View Post
    I suppose you could also consider it as good exercise I have a very ill friend who sets herself a target of a square yard a day has done wonders and feels better mentally.
    This is a good idea and good therapy, the key to a nice garden is do a little bit every day even if it’s pulling a few weeds out or brushing up the leaves or mowing the lawn. If you are ill time seems to move faster, little jobs take longer and it can take you all day and several attempts to do the most simplest of things.

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