bloody pheasants have had the new polytunnel cover - gonna have to start shooting a few
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this is how Viki's hedge departed Chez Druid earlier this week .. two good trailer loads in those two bags

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massacred all the green stuff couple of days ago with a 'nap of the earth' cut - produced a fair collector full X 2
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should n't need another go for a week or two (fortunately as it turned out)


just finished doing the turning area and passing places on the main drive with the Dane and ....
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she had a wobbly and chucked the blade drive belt

-- was teatime so left it for a n other day -- plus she was very hot to go faffing about with
belt looked ok, but should have a new one here somewhere
yesterday morning was the last weekend of the 'gate sales' at Allensmore Nurseries who grow for all the chain stores and flog their end of season plants off for pennies - so a hit was in order .. had a good haul for 60 quid and could easily have added anther 20 plants to round it up to 100 but .....
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would've struggled to load any more - back seats covered and loaded too
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then it was a case of ... "
can you just" - so the Lumag came out from under the bench -easier than a spade
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'til it started being cantankerous on the start front - God knows why .. has been an awesome starter since I got it
so -- carb off, strip, clean, plenty of carb cleaner, all seemed in order and pristine - odd slide in it as in it rotates to open the port, rather than lift
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got it all back together and dropped it on the floor on me rubber mat, as it's an awkward pull, with out an auger on it, on the bench ... and that's when the day went south
gave it a gert handfull of pull and .... smacked the **** out of my hand on the edge of the bench ... ferk that hurt .. looked at it and realised I'd more than just banged it due to the amount of red stuff leaking out

, so 'applied pressure' with the left and legged it down the house for some 'repair materials'

.. always have plenty of gauzes, etc., from treatment supplies
used up several pads trying to stop it, which we eventually managed and strapped a few on to me danny and kept pressure on it
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tea was almost ready and I was hungry so went and tidied up and locked everything ... had tea and then thought we'd better have another eyeball of it as it was still 'leaking' ... and made the decision to head for .... you guessed it --- Hereford's A&E as it wasn't stopping leaking
there by half seven and booked in "
You haven't got pancreatitis again have you ? "
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LOL - nah - damaged danny this time - thankfully "
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take a seat and someone'll have a look at it for you "
hour an a half later and I'd not even been triaged ... about to wander out for a fag and I get called
nurse asks what the problem is and asks to take a look - peels our dressing off - the wrong way, 'fore I can stop her, opened it up wide and there's red stuff everywhere - the look on her face was a picture ---- "
er - I'll just go get some one to take a look at this, just keep your dressing firmly pressed on it please "
Triage went from 'having a butcher's' to getting dealt with in a couple of minutes

duty surgeon appears round the curtain and asks me if I have any other ongoing issues/problems and after about 5 minutes of listening to 'the Gaucher's story' and the likelihood of haemophilia as an ongoing issue with it, he's ready for a butchers ... arm on what looked like a 'puppy pad' and lifts our dressing, which'd stuck again and there's a very red puppy pad .. "
you did very well to stem the flow with your dressing Graham - ordinarily we'd patch you up and sit you back out in the queue, but this needs sorting now - right now! When was the last time you had a tetanus jab? "
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55 years ago, when I was 14 and old enough to make up my own mind about it "
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so I take it you don't want one now? "
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correct -- I'll take my chances thanks "
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OK - your choice, we'll get started .. do you want some Lidocaine - I'm going to have to stitch this, .. after I stitch the blood vessels to re-join the ends of them "
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done a proper job then have I --- charge on ?
after the first few squirts, I didn't feel the rest of the 20ml going in, but jeez the first bit stung

... couple of stitches in the two severed blood vessels and then was on to the 'main event' --God knows how he could see what he was doing - I was struggling, but after half a dozen stitches he'd gotten the red stuff under control ... all fingers were working so no tendon damage
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all in all I got off light, considering I'd hammered my hand into bench edge at full pull 'start force' and stroke
just about stopped it leaking and told the nurse to apply a 'pressure dressing' for the last of it - had quite a 'paw' by the time she'd finished .
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knuckles were starting to swell and by this morning the right mitt was quite a size . we were real 'lucky' to get sorted in about two hours .. waiting time last night was 6 hrs

--reception told us when we arrived we'd just missed the minor injuries clinic, which deals with this sort of thing and the guy who repaired me said I'd just caught him at the end of his 12hr shift

's gonna take a while 'fore I can use this again - 10 - 14 days for the stitches out and then look after it for a few more weeks .. don't strain it/stretch it too hard

didn't get a lot of kip last night after the pain killer wore off and a gramme of paracetamol 4 hourly, didn't have a lot of effect ... had me up at 04.00 for some more
Might get a tramadol cocktail tonight, so's I can get some decent zeds as it's worse today, up like a balloon, have had to redo the dressing as it'd gotten too tight (still leaking) and I am knackered

Have had Vicki and the girls here since lunchtime and Vicki cooked us a beautiful roast chicken dinner .. not long left so yon paw has had a busy afternoon, instead of just resting it, elevated