That's about the limit of it. There is couch grass in the front beds and I just about managed to get through digging that out. Thankfully the ground is soft and I used the garden fork to balance when I bent to take the couch out. About half an hour of that and I'm in agony. I've been putting it off, but it's a call to the GP tomorrow - assuming I can actually get through to them. I need something stronger than paracetamol, even if I only use it when I know I'm going to be gardening.
Have you tried an anti inflammatory gel? I find Voltarol very good when I get aches and pains and prefer it to taking tablets other gels are available I don’t get commission I promise
I'm willing to try anything! Because of the limited mobility in the hip, the knee on that leg is extremely painful now. It's like throbbing toothache and I can't take the last of my tablets for a couple of hours yet.
The litter picker won't really help much as I need to pick up lumps of soil complete with weeds and crumble the soil to remove them. It's getting down to pick them up which has caused the problem today. Whilst I'm working I'm having to twist in all sorts of directions, but it's after the event that the pain really kicks in.
Not sure which thread to post in. It's been a really nice weekend weather wise and I got a ton of jobs ticked off the list but I also wasted half the weekend putting together a new wardrobe which turned out to be fairly terrible quality and needed a ton of work to salvage. I should have sent it back but just carrying it all back down 2 flights of stairs seemed like more effort than it was worth.
Then I've been watching a plant on ebay for a few days and got completely outbid on it at the last minute. I guess someone really wanted it but it was more than I was willing to pay.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Wild edges, I use auctionsniper a lot and to great effect. It probably would not have helped in this case though.
Now here’s a question out of left field. I’ve just spent a couple of hours doing my Italian homework for my class tomorrow. One of the exercises is to write a short piece in the style of ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ on Radio 4. In our case the story has to be true but for two lies. I was writing about eponymous words and, among other things, said that the crab apple Malus Evereste was not named after the mountain but after a woman called Eve Reste. That bit is true but does anyone know anything about her? In an ideal world you’ll tell me she was a big, tall woman with white hair.
Wild edges, I use auctionsniper a lot and to great effect. It probably would not have helped in this case though.
Sadly I think auto bidding covered this one. I didn't need more plants anyway
Confession time. I've been meaning to cut back the neighbour's sycamore that's overhanging the front garden all winter. There's one big branch shading out all my plants that really needs to be removed. Since I was standing by it today and had a saw in my pocket I trimmed a few smaller side branches to make space to get the bow saw in there to remove the main limb. I hadn't realised though that the sap is rinsing in earnest now and the cuts began to drip sap with alarming speed. Luckily I didn't just go in for the main chop first or I could have killed the tree.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Now here’s a question out of left field. I’ve just spent a couple of hours doing my Italian homework for my class tomorrow. One of the exercises is to write a short piece in the style of ‘The Unbelievable Truth’ on Radio 4. In our case the story has to be true but for two lies. I was writing about eponymous words and, among other things, said that the crab apple Malus Evereste was not named after the mountain but after a woman called Eve Reste. That bit is true but does anyone know anything about her? In an ideal world you’ll tell me she was a big, tall woman with white hair.