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A cautionary tale.(crossposted if you need to care)


Over the weekend I spent nearly 2 days in a traumatic surgery
specialist unit.

In the next bed was a man who had destroyed a toe on one foot and a
lot of the flesh on the opposite shin. He had slipped on a sloping
lawn, using a Flymo and slid his legs under the blade.
General anaesthetic and foreign holiday cancelled.

Friend of mine who is a Gardener at RHS Wisley told me that all the Grass
Cutting Gang there have no leather left on the toes of their steel toecap
boots! Yet I constantly see people using mowers and wearing sandals, can't
look, makes me feel sick. One slip or moments inattention and you are
possibly crippled for life, certainly in a lot of pain for some
weeks/months.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK