Seeking Sir Gawain

[fivemack]

Is there anyone reading this who lives in Cambridge.uk, owns an axe, and would be willing to come round for a few minutes one evening and chop through a number of rather solid tree-roots (several about as thick as my arm, and one about as thick as my calves) for me? I will cook them curry, or something other than curry if they'd prefer, in return.

This seems the right time of year for major garden-fettling, since the annuals from last year are dead and I haven't got round to planting anything in the large areas which are getting covered in earth as I try to dig out the least conveniently-placed of the three tree-stumps with which earlier renters have gifted the garden. The house came with 45 large brown bricks in a pile, which I think will make a good path down the middle of the back bit of the garden, but the tree-stump is inconveniently in the way.

Comments

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I could go and buy an axe!

Do you have any princesses which need rescuing?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

I got rid of most of the briars last year, and the enthusiastic nettles have died down, so I don't think there's space in the garden for even a very small princess to be trapped. The most exciting thing I've discovered in the garden was a small cylinder vacuum cleaner that had clearly been buried there Some Time Ago.

I too could buy an axe (or, Google suggests, a mattock); but I would use it so seldom that it seemed friendlier to give some poor neglected axe languishing at the back of a Cambridge woodshed a chance at the big time. I seem to remember some axe-wielding re-enactors at the Cambridge Blue from time to time, but probably those are neck-hewing rather than root-chopping axes. I'm not enough of an axologist to know the difference.

[emperor]

I have an axe, but alas it (and I) are in Coventry.