{"id":49959,"date":"2026-06-01T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49959"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T16:56:21","slug":"add-leaf-blowers-to-the-list-of-antisocial-garden-tools-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=49959","title":{"rendered":"Add leaf blowers to the list of antisocial garden tools | Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">On reading the latest column in your long-running series (Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you \u00a35,000, 27 May), I noticed that the writer didn\u2019t include the curse of the leaf\u00a0blower in their list of antisocial\u00a0garden tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The noise is dreadful and can be life-altering. We bought one which turned out to be so loud that it has caused permanent hearing loss and\u00a0hyperacusis (sensitivity to loud\u00a0noise) in my left ear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">There were no warning stickers about using ear defenders on the leaf blower, so seven months on I am now learning to live with hearing aids, and cowering in my seat on the underground with my hands clamped over my ears.<br \/><strong>Miranda Fagandini<\/strong><br \/><em>New Malden, London<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><strong><em><span data-dcr-style=\"bullet\"\/> Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>email<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>letters<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On reading the latest column in your long-running series (Lawnmower hum: why the sound of the summer could cost you \u00a35,000, 27 May), I noticed that the writer didn\u2019t include the curse of the leaf\u00a0blower in their list of antisocial\u00a0garden tools. The noise is dreadful and can be life-altering. We bought one which turned out<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[1137,24663,24662,7555,15877,15337,1861,2498],"class_list":{"0":"post-49959","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-add","9":"tag-antisocial","10":"tag-blowers","11":"tag-garden","12":"tag-gardens","13":"tag-leaf","14":"tag-list","15":"tag-tools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}