{"id":194047,"date":"2023-09-23T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T02:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/?p=194047"},"modified":"2023-09-23T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T02:44:18","slug":"alan-titchmarshs-calls-for-people-to-stop-using-machinery-on-sundays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokenstalk.info\/world-news\/alan-titchmarshs-calls-for-people-to-stop-using-machinery-on-sundays\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Titchmarsh&apos;s calls for people to stop using machinery on Sundays"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alan Titchmarsh&#8217;s war on power tools: TV horticulturist calls for people to stop using their noisy machinery on Sundays<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mr Titchmarsh, 74, said he never uses power tools, or mows his lawn, on Sunday<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He complained that the &#8216;natural sounds of the earth&#8217; have been forgotten about\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alan Titchmarsh has called for people to stop using power tools on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>The TV horticulturalist said that he never uses power tools &#8211; or mows his lawn &#8211; on a Sunday because he &#8216;profoundly believes&#8217; at least one day should be reserved for quietness.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old bemoaned the &#8216;jet-powered age&#8217; and complained that the &#8216;natural sounds of the earth&#8217; have been forgotten about.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in BBC Gardeners World magazine, Mr Titchmarsh issued an appeal for everyone to stop using power tools on Sundays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s clear to me the rarest thing in any garden is silence, it appears to be the one commodity money can&#8217;t buy,&#8217; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Titchmarsh said he was recently asked what time power tools are acceptable on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was worried I would sound holier-than-thou when I explained that I never use power tools on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/23\/00\/75748767-12551485-image-a-106_1695426974759.jpg\" height=\"440\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old also bemoaned the &#8216;jet-powered age&#8217; and said the &#8216;natural sounds of the earth&#8217; have been forgotten<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[I believe] profoundly there should be at least one day in the week when we could go out into our gardens and experience a bit of peace and quiet &#8211; or at least as near to peace and quiet as it&#8217;s possible to experience in this jet-powered age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want to listen to the birds singing, and hear the wind rustling the leaves of the horse chestnut across the garden, the splash of a duck landing on our wildlife pond, the cluck of a moorhen darting across the lily pads and the laughter of grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Perhaps in this age of mobile phones, when it&#8217;s rare to come across anyone perambulating the streets of town and city without a pair of earphones bunged into their aural orifices, the natural sounds of the earth have been superseded by a man-made cacophony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It appears that not many folk are tuning into the sounds of the earth nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now, I know that for most working folk the gardening jobs have to be caught up with at the weekend and that power tools make the going easier &#8211; and quicker &#8211; but why do even the electric ones have to be so noisy?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We have mowers and strimmers and chainsaws and hedge trimmers and leaf blowers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I know it&#8217;s unrealistic of me to ask you to replace your lawnmower with a small flock of sheep and to pick up a rake rather than a leaf blower but&#8230; Well, you get my drift.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Titchmarsh added: &#8216;I am no evangelist, just a simple soul who appreciates a bit of peace and quiet on what used to be regarded as the first day of the week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;So, if you must power your way through Sunday, please do so between the hours of 9am and 6pm, so that I can sip my early morning tea in silence and enjoy my sundowner to the accompaniment of the blackbird, rather than the Black &amp; Decker.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12551485\/Alan-Titchmarshs-power-tools-stop-noisy-machinery-Sundays.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Titchmarsh&#8217;s war on power tools: TV horticulturist calls for people to stop using their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":194046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28134],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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