Palustris
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:48 pm Post subject: A WARNING! |
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Warning
This is the time of year when one goes out into the beds and starts to cut things down. Watch your eyes when you bend over the plants. I am grateful for wearing glasses and have now only a holed eyebrow rather than a poked out eye. The support canes have eye protection caps on them as one should, but the plant stems do not.
BE CAREFUL please
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A timely warning Palustris and a good one. You never normally hear about this but I wonder how many A&E trips are made because of it. Quite a few I'd bet.
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How right you are to warn us Eric. 
A few years back I used to wear my contact lenses in the garden and got poked in the eye by a forsythia shoot when I bent down to weed amongst my shrubs. It took our local hospital 2 hours (under local anaesthetic) to prise the lense carefully off my eye and I ended up having to wear an eye patch for nearly 4 weeks until the wound healed. Never seen a black eye quite like it - outside of a boxing ring!!!! 
I now only wear glasses to do the garden as they are so much safer.
Thank you for your advice. 
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| Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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Another example-- as if we needed one-- that gardening is NOT for the faint of heart.
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Thank you Eric for that valuable advice.
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Too true, Eric. In the same vein -
1. Don't shred Euphorbia without a mask.
2. Do tread carefully around the Roses. Last year it took 7 damp tea-towels to stem the flow & 2 months to heal the wounds. But I saved my camera! The Rose? Jude the Obscure.
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Good grief Tim what exactly did you do to yourself with your 'Jude the Obscure' - sounds really nasty!!! 
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OUCH !!!!!Hope you are okay?
thankfully I wear glasses now
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Shouldn't really say it here, but maybe everyone's into Sunday lunch by now? And since you ask - thank God for the new(?) 'mepore' dressings.
Both arms & one shin. Still have a 3" scar on that!!
Daughter's a vegetarian & she had to drive me to Hospital. She was very brave!!
The rose flourished, despite having been almost flattened.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/photo04/jude.jpg
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Owwww, I'm squirming here  On a scale of 1 to 10 how painful was it Tim?
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Those Mepore dressings are really fantastic aren't they?  Glad your daughter was on hand to get you to A&E.
Moral of that story - never fight with a rose bush - you'll lose. 
BTW - Lovely rose Tim - the extra feed seems to have worked wonders.
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Pain, Frank? If childbirth is 10. this was 2. But it hurt like hell!!
Dressings? Other (younger) daughter next door was, until marriage, a ward Sister. She has them.
Enjoy your lunch!!
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