Pooped!
To coin a phrase, that's how I'm feeling today. It's only 3.30 and, shockingly, I'm fighting the urge for a little mid-afternoon siesta! Mind you, despite buffeting winds at the weekend, I crossed off a few more jobs on my To-Do List. My garlic and onion beds are regularly dug up by (I think) a cat so it was a priority to get that netted off: Tick. I filled up half a dozen recycling bags with well-rotted manure, collected from the farm on Friday, that needed to be spread over and dug into the raised beds: Tick. Sweet Peas and beans are growing rampantly indoors and being hardened off so need their supports put up in the veg patch: Tick. Actually, that doesn't seem that much now I look back on it. But it was tricky getting three beds netted in the wind - and especially as I had to support the net over canes topped with tennis balls and managed to slice into my thumb when cutting into one of the balls. Yowee! Must.Be.More.Careful.
Am I alone in self-inflicting harm on myself by not concentrating or am I among the gardening walking wounded?
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Comment by Zoe on May 16, 2011 at 16:20 -
Sounds like you've had a really busy weekend.
I haven't wounded myself particularly, I just seem to have general & continuous back ache. But I imagine I'm not alone.
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Comment by elaine rickett on May 16, 2011 at 19:00 -
Pooped is exactly what I feel this evening after spending the morning doing household chores, plus washing and ironing and this afternoon planting out a flower border with 48 Antirrhinums. Except for scratches which are very sore I am accident free at the moment. But I have been known to slice the top of a finger with a hedge trimmer. That really hurt. But for all the jobs that you completed you must be feeling a sense of satisfaction, yes!
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Comment by Sarah Rideout on May 16, 2011 at 21:58 -
Finger still throbbing from an altercation with a folding table - sounds innocent enough but the damn thing's like a metal octopus and very unwieldy - was doing a stall at a local event with info about the community allotment.
Well done for getting your tasks done!
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Comment by Jan Willetts on May 16, 2011 at 22:54 -
Last year I crushed the end of my thumb between two bricks -it took ages for the nail to go black , drop off and regrow. Was digging out some rubble for a new flower bed at the weekend and guess what- I've done the same to my other thumbnail-gone green and throbbing! Still, takes my mind off the backache, sore knees and painful elbows.
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Comment by Caro on May 17, 2011 at 14:30 -
Oooh! I'm sitting here flinching at all the tales of woe! Bricks, folding tables (yep, ouch, done that one myself, soooo painful!) and a hedge trimmer? That's an impressive list! Now I'm wondering if it's because we like to get the jobs finished while our brains have already moved on to thinking about other things; we lose focus and blam! Accident time. What do you reckon? I think that one holds for me (that and being pooped!). Zoe, I lived with lower back ache for years before I discovered Pilates and a good osteopath!
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Comment by Zoe on May 17, 2011 at 14:49
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Currently sitting with a hot water bottle on my back so that the spasms will stop. The things we do for home grown veg;-)
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Comment by Caro on May 17, 2011 at 15:06
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Oh poor you, Zoe - but, seriously, find a good osteopath! I now go for a monthly tune up and have been given all sorts of exercises to do which help (when I remember to do them!!).
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Comment by Jan Willetts on May 17, 2011 at 17:02
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By the way-nothing wrong with a little siesta-just off for one now in fact!
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Comment by Caro on May 17, 2011 at 21:53
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Good for you Jan! I love afternoon snoozes when I can't keep my eyes open, especially if I'm comfy on the sofa!
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