Mine got it's first cut of the year today too.
Not as big as yours but still not a lawn more a wild patch of grass at the back of the house.
Percy Thrower I am not.
I have to say the British fascination with lawns has always been beyond me, don't get me wrong, I love a piece of well-matured grass....er, let me rephrase that...a decently looked-after bit of turf but it has always seemed a misuse of space...might be because my old man was an avid gardener, bought our house in Jockland on the basis of how much garden space there was ( it was a new build and so a blank canvas ), sold it on the basis of what a brilliant job he'd done with that space. We had a front lawn and flower garden but it was under 20% of the total space. The rest was devoted to fruit ( strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries ) and veg ( the usual but also kale and spinach ), a couple of greenhouses produced tomatoes and, almost unbelievable considering this was Jockland, grapes- small but edible and at the same time sweet and sour, not to mention 3 bee hives. That in a posh suburban part of Dunfermline with a railway cutting at the end of the veggie bit. Google Earth revealed that now all that is a second house and v. small garden...how times change etc.
Apologies for the French origin of the pic, but it really does sum us up !!!