2026 - What I did today.

Sowed some tenderstem broccoli. Weeded a bit then got called away. P is looking to sell our Lawnflite ride-on mower. We haven't used it for several years, so it has to go. To that end he unearthed it from under the 'rubbish' intending to make sure it still started (which it did on the bit of residue fuel). He then put some petrol in to give it a wizz round the garden and found a fuel leak. Petrol was peeing out of an undiscovered something. I happened to turn up at the stage he was trying to pump out the fuel from the tank and at the same time collect the leaking fuel. A second pair of hands was quite welcome. Then, in order to discover where in the carb the leak was we had to remove it. It's a Briggs and Stratton engine , supposedly simple to work on but not when its installed in a bloody lawn mower! My small hands and greater mobility came in handy and I now know how to remove a carburetor from a ride on. Another life skill on my CV. Having got it off, its down to P to figure out how to repair it, I'm not even sure what a carburetor does.