How’s your lawn doing? Has it reacted to this long, dry summer by slowing its growth, reducing its need for the rain that never comes? Has it panicked, thrown out a bunch of skinny, straw-coloured seed-heads, and then withered away like a consumptive heroine in a Victorian novel? Or has it kept its cool, and stayed relatively green and pleasant?
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