The Grass is Greener: An Anglo-Saxon Passion

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Tom Fort. The Grass is Greener: An Anglo-Saxon Passion

THE GRASS IS GREENER. An Anglo-Saxon Passion Our Love Affair with the Lawn. TOM FORT

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PRAISE. THE GRASS IS GREENER

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CONTENTS

PRELUDE

The Lawnsman Cometh

PART ONE

In the Beginning

Pleasures of the Green

Shaven Lawns and Vapid Greens

The Moral Lawn

MUSINGS FROM THE SHED (1)

Albert’s Morning March

PART TWO

Budding Genius

The Budding’s Flowering

The Glory of the Garden

Velvet Robes

Then and Now – Greensward and Minimum Bovver

MUSINGS FROM THE SHED (2)

Lawn Order, Man’s Business

PART THREE

The Lawnsmen

The Mowermen

My Sward and Others

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

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‘Here is cultural history at its best: the story of the lawn, and the implements used to cut it, and the place it has in our culture and psyche. It is clear that the author is in thrall to the green stuff, as there is a wonderful personal account of the first lawnmower in his life, and of the details of his ongoing struggle to develop his own lawn to a level he feels satisfied with’

Country Life

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freshly turved, whereof the grene gras

so small, so thik, so short, so fresh of hew

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