I still have vivid memory of my dear late Mother standing on a rake and it hitting her in the face. It's one of the only times I saw my Mother cry in pain.
Not gardening related but.... Don't forget to change the battery in your smoke alarm every couple of years otherwise it will start to beep every 10 seconds at 2am. Don't assume you know how to take the cover off. Don't leave paint covering the instructions on how to remove said cover even if you could get near enough to read the small print. Don't forget where you put the instruction leaflet. Finally found it needed a screwdriver pressed into a slit and the cover slid sideways. Don't assume the beeping will stop straight away and dont forget to have a spare battery to hand. And finally don't assume your husband will wake up to help.
.....and when it does go off you can never tell which of the 5 alarms it is, so you stand around in your nightie waiting for the next beep but the beeps are just too far apart to pinpoint it!!!!!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
... and if (when) the smoke alarm goes off in your kitchen and take it off and away, don't let it disappear under a pile of junk on the sofa, because (as above) the battery peep will start and you will have no idea where it's coming from and turn over the room several times looking for the damn device. Only to find it under three winter coats.
... and if (when) the smoke alarm goes off in your kitchen and take it off and away, don't let it disappear under a pile of junk on the sofa, because (as above) the battery peep will start and you will have no idea where it's coming from and turn over the room several times looking for the damn device. Only to find it under three winter coats.
Err.......dont dump coats on the sofa, put them away?
Don't put a smoke detector in the kitchen. The top of the stairs is a good place and certainly don't disable it or cover it with anything.
I have one in every room. A smoke detector is brilliant as it helps my cooking. Also, that is where a fire is most likely to start (with cookers and things) so I want as much advanced notice as possible.
Err.......dont dump coats on the sofa, put them away?
Oh yea of so little imagination. My house is a very ... creative place at the moment. I am going to have to get in a professional team to deep clean and Kondo my house before I can let any vistors past the threshold in April. Using the kitchen as a potting shed really doesn't help. Seeds and pots and twine everywhere. The kitchen is less than 2x3 metres to start with. Add cooking twice a day, cake making, clothes dyeing, block printing, jam making and you start to get the general impression.
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