cathy - sorry, but your dive head first into the **** made me laugh!
A few years ago I was levering up some of those 3'x2' heavy duty slabs with a spade and then leaning them against the garage wall. I didn't lean one quite far enough back. It fell back down, caught the tip of the blade of the spade which then did one of those slow motion cartwheels and the edge sliced a neat slit along my cheekbone. Daughter patched it up for me with some of those little strips and we had to go to casualty....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I did my back in trying to pick up a pathing slab up out of the garden ..... I thought it was just a small one..... Half of it was buried under over grown weeds ..... It turns outs the pathing slab was nearly as big as me!!!!
My wife asked me to give her a hand to move a pot in the garden. After bending down to re-position it a couple of times, and it still wasn't right, we tried again. As my body descended downwards, I didn't notice the bamboo cane in the pot - it caught me right on the bone at the bottom of the eye socket. A cm or so higher and it would have poked my eye out. That's what you call lucky!
I was once helping a friend clear a load of rubbish from behind his garage. Running perpendicular to the garage wall, at the very back, was a low wall. I jumped down from the wall and landed on an old plank with a huge rusty nail in it. The nail went through the sole of my Doc Marten, through my foot and out of the upper of my boot! My friend had to saw the plank, either side of my boot,and take me to casualty with it in situ! Luckily, the nail missed anything significant on it's journey but it was blasted sore for a while.
I fell face first into a patch of stinging nettles whilst trying to pull the damn thing up! Note to self...don't clear nettles wearing shorts and vest t shirt! Thank goodness for my aloe Vera plant in the kitchen! My face swelled up like a balloon!
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cathy - sorry, but your dive head first into the **** made me laugh!
A few years ago I was levering up some of those 3'x2' heavy duty slabs with a spade and then leaning them against the garage wall. I didn't lean one quite far enough back. It fell back down, caught the tip of the blade of the spade which then did one of those slow motion cartwheels and the edge sliced a neat slit along my cheekbone. Daughter patched it up for me with some of those little strips and we had to go to casualty....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Ouch Pete, get Savlon on it asap.
Ouchy
I had a pitchfork right through the foot once many moons ago.
I did my back in trying to pick up a pathing slab up out of the garden ..... I thought it was just a small one..... Half of it was buried under over grown weeds ..... It turns outs the pathing slab was nearly as big as me!!!!
My wife asked me to give her a hand to move a pot in the garden. After bending down to re-position it a couple of times, and it still wasn't right, we tried again. As my body descended downwards, I didn't notice the bamboo cane in the pot - it caught me right on the bone at the bottom of the eye socket. A cm or so higher and it would have poked my eye out. That's what you call lucky!
was cutting a timber batten in the polytunnel today and decided it would be a great idea to stick my finger under the saw.
I was once helping a friend clear a load of rubbish from behind his garage. Running perpendicular to the garage wall, at the very back, was a low wall. I jumped down from the wall and landed on an old plank with a huge rusty nail in it. The nail went through the sole of my Doc Marten, through my foot and out of the upper of my boot! My friend had to saw the plank, either side of my boot,and take me to casualty with it in situ! Luckily, the nail missed anything significant on it's journey but it was blasted sore for a while.
Reversed into a holly bush when weeding. I got up a lot quicker than I got down!
Cutting hose with a very sharp penknife when the blade caught and folded on my finger. The scar is still visible over 40 years later.
I fell face first into a patch of stinging nettles whilst trying to pull the damn thing up! Note to self...don't clear nettles wearing shorts and vest t shirt! Thank goodness for my aloe Vera plant in the kitchen! My face swelled up like a balloon!
Ouch!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.