Bloody Leaf Blowers Again!

It started again, a little while ago: from early in the morning, every Monday, there's leaf blowers going at it in the parking of the business behind our house. I hate this. It's our enforced, unwanted alarm clock. It's nothing new, I blogged and complained about it before. I don't understand why they do it this time of year: there's not so many leaves on the ground and autumn is a long way to go. But not only to they start early in the morning, but yesterday they kept blowing way into the afternoon. It just makes even less sense. I suspect they're just blowing their bloody machines on an empty, bare parking, just so they get paid. After all, they must be paid per hour and not per leaf. All the same, I hate it/them.

Darn leaf blowers!

Well, it used to be every Monday, and I guess as last Monday was a bank holiday, it had to be postponed, but anyway, two days ago, we got woken up at 7:15 by a concert of leaf blowers! It used to be worse, they used to work as early as 6:30AM, for some reason. We complained to the company hiring them and they are now doing it 45 minutes later, but it is still too loud and still too early. And can someone, anyone, explain to me why use leaf blowers in the first place, especially now? There are hardly any leaf on the ground and won't be for a few months. And fallen leafs are good for soil and the environment anyway. And they look nice. Frankly, I wish leaf blowers were banned. One day, I hope.

Cate Blanchett VS leaf blowers

 Just when I thought I could not love Cate Blanchett more, she says something that makes me positively adore her. She recently said that leaf blowers should be eradicated. Yes, yes, yes, YES! I hate them, hate them, hate them! They are loud, polluting and useless. Nobody needs leaf blowers, a good old rake does the job, if a job needs to be done, and the rake does it quietly. And, it allows you to exercise. That said, I think dead leaves should stay on the ground, where they belong. But anyway, since Cate Blanchett might be retiring from acting, I think she should enter politics and promise to make leaf blowers illegal. I'd vote for her.

Leaf Blower Solo

Last Monday morning, after a night when I had trouble to sleep, I got woken up round 7:15 by a bloody leaf blower! That was not the first time, and I blogged about it before. And I just don't get it. Why so bloody early, for one. And why use leaf blowers at all, in a time of yer when there's barely any leaf on the ground. Not that I like leaf blowers in autumn, I hate them even more then, because I happen to like colourful leafs on the ground. So yes, I wonder who is the idiot who thought this was a good idea.

Accursed leaf blowers!

 Yesterday, 6:30AM or thereabout, my wife and got woken up by a darn leaf blower! It was not the first time. Some guy in the parking of the office behind our home does it every Tuesday or so. I wonder why: the offices have been mostly empty for the last year and a half, and so was the parking, and we in the middle of summer! I already hated them in autumn, when at least you could make a rationale for using them. Even though let's face it, why can't they use a good old rake? Leaf blowers must be the most useless thing ever invented by man: it's noisy, it's polluting, it's clunky and probably as heavy as it looks and you just move leaves from one spot to the next. Like I said, use a rake, or let the wind blow them, if you really must get ri of the leaves. It's just properly ridiculous. And I, for one, love leaves on the ground. It looks pretty and it's a natural fertiliser. Anyway, my wife emailed the town council and apparently the guy who did the job (at 6:30 in the morning!) was very nice and promised the councillor that he would be more considerate next time. If he was truly considerate, he'd switch career.