{"id":127526,"date":"2022-07-03T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lawns-are-such-a-yawn\/"},"modified":"2022-07-03T14:18:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T07:18:47","slug":"lawns-are-such-a-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lawns-are-such-a-yawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawns are such a yawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIsn\u2019t it time to rethink our patch of green?Across the suburbs today, the low scratching buzz of a hundred lawn mowers. This afternoon the smell of cut grass and premature sun lotion will rise in clouds of wet nostalgia and suffocate us, as is its right. Down the road a golf course vibrates in the heat, empty but for three men in the distance plodding importantly between holes. And here at my desk, looking down at our lawn, I seethe.Each year my hatred of lawns increases by a centigrade. But discussing it with a partner, parent or friend is trickier than it might seem \u2013 a conversation about the problem with lawns often lands as comfortably as one about their drinking habits or how often they look at Instagram. The UK is obsessed with lawns, addicted, the UK is in a problematic two-century long relationship with the garden lawn. It is the most enduring fetish of our time. So to criticise lawns, which cover an estimated 23% of the entire urban land area on the planet, feels to many like a criticism of the very structures of their lives. It is to point out that they are naked. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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