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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Pruning all things spiky today. Holly, climbing roses, brambles. Note to self: wear something with sleeves next time! My arms look like I've got something contagious😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    We have a large rose 'shrubby' thing that is a nightmare to cut back without looking like you've gone ten rounds with some barbed wire (and I'm a bit of a bleeder) , so I ended up getting some welding sleeves. They'e like a rough leather equivalent of a food prep sleeve:

    ..I got mine from screwfix (other hardware stores are available) and thought they would also do as leg protectors should I ever go chasing rats...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2022
    I could have done with a helmet as well! Picking thorns out of your scalp isn't much fun either. I have some gauntlets but they have white powdery mould on them🙄
    Those things look the business. There's a screwfix not far away. 
    Thanks @steveTu
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Check with Screwfix before you go though - I got mine a few years back and when I googled them today ('welding sleeve screwfix') they didn't appear, so maybe they've stopped doing them. I paid about the same price as that online link - just under £9. Not bad for a fashion accessory - they look fetching with a polo shirt, shorts and wellies...

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Do rats bite your ankles or crawl up your trouser leg?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ..both - they nibble first and if they like the taste they head for a juicier spot...
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    B3 said:
    Do rats bite your ankles or crawl up your trouser leg?
    Yes,  that’s why they wore string round the trouser legs just below the knee when they went down the treacle mines. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    climb up the leg, ignoring the trouser string bait to access the prize. The string vest

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Farm workers certainly used to tie string below the knee on their trousers.  I don't think it was done as a fashion statement.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Baling twine is essential on the farm,  round the waist on the trousers,  round the middle when your coat has lost all the buttons or the zips gone.  And definitely the rat traps below the knee. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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