Will I survive the summer holidays?

[miffy]

Barleysuger i am like you finish school and then start tearing around trying to get everything i haven't been able to do during term time done in about a week!! I've managed to get a huge bruise on my arm whilst sorting out the back bedroom/office/pit!!
Stood on a panel pin in bare feet which smarted somewhat!! Nothing as bad as you though, perhaps it is a teacher thing!! We spend so much of our working life adhering to strick Health and Safety guidelines that when we finish for the summer we just do the complete opposite!! Painful way to rebel though.

[BarleySugar]

Well Saturday saw the 3rd accident. The 'sharpest knife in the world' made short work of the watermelon, and went through nail and thumb too. 4 hours later, I exited A&E with steri strips, an enormous dressing, and instructions to keep it dry for 5 days . No way to get a glove over it, so a placcy bag it will have to be until tomorrow night.

[weekendwellies]

Well Saturday saw the 3rd accident. The 'sharpest knife in the world' made short work of the watermelon, and went through nail and thumb too. 4 hours later, I exited A&E with steri strips, an enormous dressing, and instructions to keep it dry for 5 days . No way to get a glove over it, so a placcy bag it will have to be until tomorrow night.

I think you should tell family that you cannot possibly do anything more for the next 6 weeks as you are obviously going to do some terrible damage to yourself if you try and they will all have to pitch in and get things done for you so that you don't lose any limbs.

[jackie j]

Barley sugar take more care of yourself and let the family do more for you.

[TPeers]

Oh wow! Just move slowly and don't go near anything sharp or hot!

On the upside - be thankful it was a sharp knife - I'm sure it hurt like hell but it should heal quicker.

Get one of the kids to set up a chair and sunshade in the garden and find a book!

[zebedee]

We broke up from school on Friday, so Monday was the first official day of the holidays, . I planned to get so much done, and top of the list was tying back my rampant blackberry canes. They are thornless, so should have been no problem. It would have been OK if I'd remembered I was standing in a square of angle iron which is part of my patio shelving system. I turned, went to move and OUCH, I caught my foot such a wallop, it immediately started to bruise and swell from the toes right up to the ankle. I limped indoors, put the frozen peas on it, and couldn't get any footware on for the rest of the day.
Today, it is painful and swollen, but I managed to go and see the Harry Potter film, minus slippers, and got into the kitchen to cook this afternoon. Cinnamon bread, bread rolls and blackberry pie from last years berries later, I had some pastry left over. DD loves jam tarts, so that took care of that. I got them out of the oven, and some had boiled out, so I decided to move them before they welded to the tin. Big mistake, boiling jam cascaded over 3 fingers on my left hand. I ran them under the tap, and then sat for about 30 minutes with them in water. I called OH on the intercom phone, and he made me a cuppa, and brought me a chair, but hasn't offered to make the curry I was planning on for dinner. With blisters on 2 out of the 3 fingers, one which has popped, I don't think I will bother tonight, we have bread to eat
Tomorrow he said I must stay in bed all day, but then I will probably suffocate

But apart from that, eveythings alright, then?

[Glutton4...]

Blimey I've only just caught up with this thread!

Take it easy Anne - you are a danger to yourself!

Seriously though, it'll do the family good, they'll maybe appreciate how much you actually do for them!

[SlugLobber]

Hope the rest of the 6 weeks is less painful! Definitely bed, with padding!

[BarleySugar]

Today I had to go to the allotment garden. I hadn't been since before cutting my thumb, last Saturday. I still have the dressing on, but I thought it would be protection anyway. The courgettes had turned into marrows, I have a whole bag of beans, 9 cucumbers and I cut 3 cabbage, with the idea we should eat them before the caterpillars! I managed to keep my thumb clean(ish) and dry, despite forgetting the placcy bag . Now I just have to do something with it all. I'm tempted to try the marrow preserve in the GYO preserving booklet that came yesterday. Maybe I'll just put it all in the fridge for now tho, and have a cuppa. Perhaps I should wait until I have 2 working hands, but then there'll be more to pick