Kathy McIntosh wrote:
"wafflycat" wrote in message
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"Bertie Doe" wrote in message
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"wafflycat" wrote in message

Cruddy Bell! Get well soon and next time, wait until after the
gardening before taking the whisky! ;-)

Actually, your cautionary tale may have served as a timely warning.
I am hoping to invest in a greenhouse - I am tending to think I may
prefer one that is not a glasshouse, but is safety glass or
polycarbonate.

My cluttered greenhouse is made from 2' x 2' horticultural. Last week
a neighbour bought a g/house with some of his retirement swag. It's
made from 2' x 6' toughened glass and the frame seems substantially
heavier.

My solution is cheaper, make sure the panes are dirty (clean glass is
invisible) plus have straw padding everywhere.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/d...ldframe014.jpg





That's a fine harvest of straw you've got!

And why is there a castle in the background?

Because it's too big for the foreground?

--
Rusty

Bertie Doe wrote:

"Kathy McIntosh" wrote in message
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That's a fine harvest of straw you've got!

And why is there a castle in the background?

--
Kathy


That's the reflection of our housing terrace in the glass. The clusters
of chimney pots harkens back to the days when every room had a fireplace.

All - both, rather - my fireplaces are still extant.

--
Rusty

On 23/05/2010 12:06, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
A cautionary tale.(crossposted if you need to care)

*snipped ..


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

And why was I there? I was ambulanced 60 miles to Morriston after
tripping in my greenhouse, falling into and demolishing 3 panes of
glass with my left hand and falling into the shards.
I almost sectioned a large slice of my left hand and somehow took
another entry wound to my right shoulder, with sundry superficials of
a cosmetic nature.

I was lucky. Jobs done under local anaesthetic, cleaned out and
stitched up, no tendon damage.

On antibiotics, painkillers and whisky now.


Make sure you don't get double glazed :~)).

Hope you heal well and don't suffer repercussions.


--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:26:56 +0100, Spider wrote:

On 23/05/2010 12:06, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
A cautionary tale.(crossposted if you need to care)

*snipped ..


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

And why was I there? I was ambulanced 60 miles to Morriston after
tripping in my greenhouse, falling into and demolishing 3 panes of
glass with my left hand and falling into the shards.
I almost sectioned a large slice of my left hand and somehow took
another entry wound to my right shoulder, with sundry superficials of
a cosmetic nature.

I was lucky. Jobs done under local anaesthetic, cleaned out and
stitched up, no tendon damage.

On antibiotics, painkillers and whisky now.


Make sure you don't get double glazed :~)).

Hope you heal well and don't suffer repercussions.

Thanks. No lasting damage to tendons etc.
Stitches out next Monday

--
(¯`·. ®óñ© © ²°¹° .·´¯)

Spider wrote
On 23/05/2010 12:06, ®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:
A cautionary tale.(crossposted if you need to care)

*snipped ..


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

And why was I there? I was ambulanced 60 miles to Morriston after
tripping in my greenhouse, falling into and demolishing 3 panes of
glass with my left hand and falling into the shards.
I almost sectioned a large slice of my left hand and somehow took
another entry wound to my right shoulder, with sundry superficials of
a cosmetic nature.

I was lucky. Jobs done under local anaesthetic, cleaned out and
stitched up, no tendon damage.

On antibiotics, painkillers and whisky now.


Make sure you don't get double glazed :~)).

Hope you heal well and don't suffer repercussions.

IRTA "grim reaper cushions" ...
--
Roger Hunt

On Mon, 31 May 2010 15:49:56 +0100, ®óñ© © ²°¹°
wrote:


Thanks. No lasting damage to tendons etc.

IRTA:- "trunnions".

GWS and all that.

--
Frank Erskine

wrote:

I manager to stick a prong of a gardening fork straight into my toe, which
is still hurting now, and then as we reached twilight (and I was stuck out
on the allotment tidying up the stuff that had been left there when He
decided he had sunstroke and was going home ...) and I managed to walk
face-first into an eye-height wire which was nearly invisible at that light
level.
Wouldn't mind, but that's twice now that I've walked into the same damned
wire. :-(

So, why is that wire still there at eye-height? Surely _this_ is what
all those saved-up bits of string Kumin Handhi for?

Richard

Rusty Hinge wrote:

I have it on good authority that horse piddle molishes a good
accelerator for compost heaps.

Isn't compost a bit too soggy to burn?

Oh, wait, accelera_tor_...

Richard

®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:

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.

Just further away a professional gardener was hedge trimming at his
own property (using his employer's equipment). Using it one-handed, he
tried to catch a falling bough with his free hand but it had the
blades attached to it and destroyed a swathe of flesh on his free arm.
General anaesthetic and sick note

So, you won't be trying to beat this any time soon, then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8700030.stm.

Richard

Richard Bos wrote:
®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:

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.

Just further away a professional gardener was hedge trimming at his
own property (using his employer's equipment). Using it one-handed, he
tried to catch a falling bough with his free hand but it had the
blades attached to it and destroyed a swathe of flesh on his free arm.
General anaesthetic and sick note

So, you won't be trying to beat this any time soon, then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8700030.stm.

That's all very well, but how good are the stripes?
--
Tciao for Now!

John.

On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:52:19 GMT, (Richard Bos)
wrote:

®óñ© © ²°¹° wrote:

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.

Just further away a professional gardener was hedge trimming at his
own property (using his employer's equipment). Using it one-handed, he
tried to catch a falling bough with his free hand but it had the
blades attached to it and destroyed a swathe of flesh on his free arm.
General anaesthetic and sick note

So, you won't be trying to beat this any time soon, then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8700030.stm.

8)))


--
(¯`·. ®óñ© © ²°¹° .·´¯)

On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:52:19 GMT
(Richard Bos) wrote:

So, you won't be trying to beat this any time soon, then:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8700030.stm.

Richard

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Any of the motorised grass cutters taking part must also be built primarily
from lawnmower parts.
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I take it the engine isn't counted in that.

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In article , Richard Bos
writes
General anaesthetic and foreign holiday cancelled.

Shame about the GA being cancelled, maybe he could replace it with a
local anaesthetic?


--
Janet Tweedy
Dalmatian Telegraph
http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk

On 05/06/2010 14:06, Janet Tweedy wrote:
In article , Richard Bos
writes
General anaesthetic and foreign holiday cancelled.

Shame about the GA being cancelled, maybe he could replace it with a
local anaesthetic?


and a local holiday

You may not want to read this- but I read recently that a woman was-ahem- decapitated by an tractor grass cutter near Townsville in Oz. She was innocently walking alongside a field with said grass cutter in it; it threw up a piece of metal, hiding in the grass, and the damage was done.

Sorry if this offends but it's a more than salient reminder of what can happen!