Just been speaking to a friend and she did exactly the same with the strap on shoe things for the lawn, she is cleverer than me she got round the problem by just putting one on and then walking round the lawn. Mine are still in the shed.
The plot next to mine at the allotment has a forest of rhubarb, as usual did too much and fell over in to it. No one could see me as it was so tall. I still see myself trying to get up and slipping all over the place. I do tend to fall over a lot, doesnt help with my back problems. But im still smiling.
I now have a spinal fusion so when i fall over it doesnt go anywhere. Ive always been the one to fall over can even manage to do it getting out of a chair.
Maud talking of falling over, I have given up on baths.( I still shower I hasten to add ) The last time I had a bath after a day in the garden , lovely long soak, I couldn't get out of it. First time I have ever even had to think about it, I had to turn over onto hands & kness and lever myself up that way, so I symphasise with your floundering about in the rhubarb patch. I slipped on wet path the other day and just managed to save myself otherwise I would have been head first into the roses.
Not quite a gardening story, was getting dressed one morning in hideous very synthetic elastic waist trousers to do some gardening, pulled them on and found I couldn't walk! OMG I thought, am I paralysed? Then realised I had put them on back to front.
Sorry if you've already read this story - I did put it on another thread.
Daftest thing I ever did was to plant lavender along the garden path, under the washing line. It attracted lots of bees and hoverflies. I went out there one sunny day, wearing a full-skirted dress, to hang out some washing. The next thing I knew, my skirt was full of bees and I was doing a can can around the garden, flapping my skirts in the air and uttering very unladylike shrieks! I now put lavender well away from the paths. Blow the lovely scent!!
Being a relatively new gardener and all puffed up with over confidence, I authoratively told both my mother and mother-in-law that the small, nettle-like plants in my raspberry patch were in fact baby raspberries - huff, don't they know anything?
I was still clinging onto the baby raspberry idea when they started stinging....cue a hasty weeding session and many blushes when questioned by the other half, although I've still not admitted anything to mother / mother-in-law!
We've all done that Shropshire lass - nurtured something that turned out to be a major weed.
Giood to see you back from your hols GG.
I remember when I first planted a "herb" garden in a chequer-board area with paving slabs and put my rotary clothes line in the middle. I did worry a bit about the bees around my ankles but it was the curry plant which grew vast and "scented" all the sheets that gave usd the biggest laugh.
I didn't replace it, or the rue which though beautiful threatened us with a nasty rash if we touched it on a sunny day.
The herb garden remains - filled with celandines at the moment, and low growing veronicas and sedums.....not quite the wafts of scent of crushed herbs that I intended, but quite pretty all the same.
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Just been speaking to a friend and she did exactly the same with the strap on shoe things for the lawn, she is cleverer than me she got round the problem by just putting one on and then walking round the lawn. Mine are still in the shed.
The plot next to mine at the allotment has a forest of rhubarb, as usual did too much and fell over in to it. No one could see me as it was so tall. I still see myself trying to get up and slipping all over the place. I do tend to fall over a lot, doesnt help with my back problems. But im still smiling.
oh Maud - couldn't help but laugh at the image of wellies poking out of the rhubarb leaves! Hope you're back is OK though.
I now have a spinal fusion so when i fall over it doesnt go anywhere. Ive always been the one to fall over can even manage to do it getting out of a chair.
Maud talking of falling over, I have given up on baths.( I still shower I hasten to add ) The last time I had a bath after a day in the garden , lovely long soak, I couldn't get out of it. First time I have ever even had to think about it, I had to turn over onto hands & kness and lever myself up that way, so I symphasise with your floundering about in the rhubarb patch. I slipped on wet path the other day and just managed to save myself otherwise I would have been head first into the roses.
Oh yes ive done that in the bath as well. we now have a shower and as yet not fallen over.
Not quite a gardening story, was getting dressed one morning in hideous very synthetic elastic waist trousers to do some gardening, pulled them on and found I couldn't walk! OMG I thought, am I paralysed? Then realised I had put them on back to front.
Thought for a minute you were going to say you'd put both legs down one trouser.
Sorry if you've already read this story - I did put it on another thread.
Daftest thing I ever did was to plant lavender along the garden path, under the washing line. It attracted lots of bees and hoverflies. I went out there one sunny day, wearing a full-skirted dress, to hang out some washing. The next thing I knew, my skirt was full of bees and I was doing a can can around the garden, flapping my skirts in the air and uttering very unladylike shrieks! I now put lavender well away from the paths. Blow the lovely scent!!
Being a relatively new gardener and all puffed up with over confidence, I authoratively told both my mother and mother-in-law that the small, nettle-like plants in my raspberry patch were in fact baby raspberries - huff, don't they know anything?
I was still clinging onto the baby raspberry idea when they started stinging....cue a hasty weeding session and many blushes when questioned by the other half, although I've still not admitted anything to mother / mother-in-law!
We've all done that Shropshire lass - nurtured something that turned out to be a major weed.
Giood to see you back from your hols GG.
I remember when I first planted a "herb" garden in a chequer-board area with paving slabs and put my rotary clothes line in the middle. I did worry a bit about the bees around my ankles but it was the curry plant which grew vast and "scented" all the sheets that gave usd the biggest laugh.
I didn't replace it, or the rue which though beautiful threatened us with a nasty rash if we touched it on a sunny day.
The herb garden remains - filled with celandines at the moment, and low growing veronicas and sedums.....not quite the wafts of scent of crushed herbs that I intended, but quite pretty all the same.