Chop Chop, The Prairies

What do you generally do on saturdays? Me.. sleep till 12, then sleep again at 4 and then again at around 1 at night... But this was going to be a different saturaday, the day when we will be cutting the grass, so tender and moist with dew laced on it, grass which we havn't bothered to cut for 6 months now, so that grass which would generally be some cms tall was almost a foot tall. And it was out neighbour Darren who made us realise this, so shouldn't the local council be cutting it. Why should we be doing this, when everyone of our neighbour enjoys the thick patch of green that is right in front of our house 4*4 ft in area, i think. And there is another patch in our parking bay, and the thick forest at our backyard. So were going to cut those as well, nahhh!

My dad has always told me buy some piece of land that we can plough in the English countryside, and live a happy life there after. Daddy!! your long cherished dream is gonna come true, I am going to plough the field in front of my house in Hunslet. And I am going to do it with my bare hands. None of the lawn mowers in Leeds is strong enough to cut the grass that has grown into some kind of a forest and god knows if there are some wild animals as well there. Local kids have started calling it a local zoo, just kidding, but who know maybe they have.

So we started to cut the grass using huhh.. kitchen knives and our hands. Done everything in 6 months, this was the only thing left doing it. Somebody has rightly said you should do everything and try enjoying every pleasure in your life before you die, so here I am cutting grass, and I have developed some good technique, which I wolud like to share with anybody interested in this most trivial, primitive and enjoyable of all pleasures. Lucky me! And the result was devastating, it was as if the Japs had bombarded the poor little hunslet green patch but as long as the local council is not going to sue us for cutting the grass in the most untidy of manners and as long as they are interested only in the grass getting cut that is fine with us.

Indian traditions of Jugad and compromise witheld by us bunch of local desis.