Few people would want to spend their summer watching paint dry and grass grow, but for Tony Bell, it comes with the territory.
As head groundsman at Middlesbrough's Riverside Stadium and the club's training ground at Rockliffe Hall, he is the man responsible for ensuring Boro have a pristine pitch to run out on.
And, with the club kicking-off their return to the Premier League at home to Stoke City on Saturday, there is much more to it than just cutting the grass a few times a week.
"There is a massive science to it and we are learning all the time," said Bell.