Tried to do some gardening today.....

My garden looks terrible, the builder have wrecked it to start with and we couldn't mow it for the best part of three months.  Today I tried to tidy it up a bit... My hedge cutters have died so I started doing the hedge by hand with secateurs, after about half hour I'd had enough, I was stuffed and gave up.  I'll have to beg steal or borrow a hedge cutter from somewhere... I think my mum has one she doesn't use....  I hope!