Thanks for the suggestions, Obelixx and Songbird. No vitamin E capsules, but that did remind me that I had a tube of Aloe vera gel in the cupboard. That really helped.
We must have reached peak watering can by now. Every shop seems to sell thousands of them every year and there can't be that many gardens using them. I've got cans that I've inherited from my gran, ones I found at the back of my dad's shed and two that turned up in mysterious circumstances. People must have sheds and garages full of the things by now.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
...who designs these things eh? A watering can where the handle gets in the way with the filling tap?! They'll have car windscreen washers that freeze in the winter when they're needed most next....
The plastic Haws can I got from my gran has a lovely balance and well designed fill hole. The cheap ones have the handle blocking the fill hole and sharp seams that cut my knuckles, but you can buy 4 or 5 of them for the price of a new Haws can...
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
steveTu and B3 I agree. Just looking at the thing you know that the handle is going to get in the way but the problem is solvable. I know it shouldn't be a problem in the first place but ...
BBC News at Six yesterday - first item was Sport - football, women's and men's, the various other games and who's hosting what when and so on ad infinitum. The 2nd item - drought, water shortage, possible hosepipe bans, the need to conserve water ( including "advice" to people which one would have thought all but a 3 yr old would have been doing anyway ). Oh aye, I think there was a bit about the "cost of living" crisis, the same dreadful scenes re Disabled people in Ukraine as we saw with Romania not too long ago and the Kid's Playground debate popped on the end. I do get that sport is important to a lot of people but given that it fills most channels at present, is it not possible for "news" bulletins to make some effort to prioritise ? Not all of us have either the time or the inclination to endlessly look up everything on a computer. When you sit down and switch on the News on TV, that is what you expect - or at least that's what I expect. Rant over
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I do get that sport is important to a lot of people but given that it fills most channels at present, is it not possible for "news" bulletins to make some effort to prioritise ?
Not all of us have either the time or the inclination to endlessly look up everything on a computer. When you sit down and switch on the News on TV, that is what you expect - or at least that's what I expect.
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