Jump and mow

One would expect Lawnmower sales to follow a fairly predictable trend, possibly ticking up at this time of year as older machines that have been neglected all winter expire on their initial outings.

That could all be about to change now a Suffolk man is breeding wallabies, which, it turns out, are particularly suited to cutting lawns. What you rather have? A coughing, spluttering, deafening, engine-powered monstrosity with sharp blades in a day-glo colour, or a miniature kangaroo? The competition is so biased on the cute factor that it isn't even fair.

The price, at £150 for a male and £600 for a female, is even competitive, when you consider some mowers can cost upwards of £1,000.

I would have thought the only reason that the entire gardening population isn't off to get a wallaby to replace the lawnmower is that there is a minimum lawn-size required, of half an acre, to sustain a pair (they're social little things and have to be sold in pairs).

So the lawnmower isn't totally dead yet. But wallabees are definitely a growth industry.

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