"p.mc" wrote in message
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"michael adams" wrote in message
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"UkJay" wrote in message
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Hi

My wife is usually the one who does the gardening, but today I decided
I would
Clear a way to get through a path to our garage.
I got to work on cutting away at a quince bush (or whatever it's
called)


I now have a sore finger after a thorn attack
Any ideas how to remove this?

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As a result of regularly handling cacti, many years ago I bought
myself a jeweller's eye glass - the actual magnification number
wore off years ago, and a large pair of tweezers.


Hee! Hee!...I use small field glasses (binoculars) Hold the lens near the
offending prick (no pun intended) and don't forget you have to view it
from
the opposite end as you would normally, they effectively become like a
microscope :-))

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Each to his own. You'd need another hand to do that. Yes I know the more
fortunate among us still have two, but that seems more awkward to me with
extra apparatus in the way.

I also use an eyeglass handling really tiny seeds. I actually space
mammilaria seed singly when sowing. When there's less chance of causing a
disturbance with an eye-glass.


michael adams

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"My little tip"

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Regards
p.mc