Lawrence the Lawnmower

You might think a lawnmower’s life would be boring and uneventful. Think again! These are the adventures of a lawnmower called Lawrence. Lawrence has a special friend, another mower called Laura. They share a shed with many other garden tool friends. Join Lawrence and his friends as they have their adventures. Encounters with Australian wildlife, not all of them friendly! Travelling to other places, different gardens and meeting other garden tools, some of them are not too friendly at first either.

So open the book. Join Lawrence and his friends. See how exciting and adventurous a lawnmower’s life can be.

Jon grew up in the UK around London where he went to school and then university to train as an osteopath. He emigrated to Australia in 1986 at the age of twenty-seven with his wife, Virginia and they have lived in the foothills of the Dandenongs mountain range for over thirty years. He has two children and now has a grandson, Hugo. He works as an osteopath and has his own practice. He also worked for more than thirty years as a university lecturer helping train student osteopaths specialising in the clinical teaching area.

One of his main interests is studying history and he has travelled to many historically significant sites in Europe and the Middle East. He also enjoys bike riding and ballroom dancing. He has always taken pleasure from fixing machinery and would rather see something repaired than thrown away. He loved reading and making up stories for his children when they were young and is now rekindling that love with his grandson.