At this time of year, leaves seem to be everywhere - I guess it's what comes of having so many trees.
Yesterday a man come round with a blower to round them all up. It's a bit like a machine you might carry around to suck up bits of litter, except it's for blowing the leaves around until they end up in a big pile. It does look tidy when it's finished but it's best if you're out when it happens as tends to be a bit deafening in this quite neighbourhood.
Of course, in a lot of places the wind would just blow them straight back again but here it's never windy so I'm not sure where else this system would work. Of course, if the leaves are wet they all stick together and you can't blow them around, so as soon as it's dry and the sun comes out, so do the leaf-blowers.
Like now - which is the reason I'm leaving now.