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Cathryn

Joined: 16 Jul 2005
Posts: 19856
Location: Ceredigion

Posted: Sun Oct 05, 08 9:52 pm Post subject:
I was fine. (Thank you sweetie)

PeteS

Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Posts: 874
Location: Hampshire

Posted: Mon Oct 06, 08 9:27 am Post subject:
Can't believe that no-one has mentioned ticks. In the New Forest they are a real problem. I have got one on me before! And my dog gets them regularly. Even in warm summer weather (when we get it) I have to cover up to try and keep them off.

fungi2bwith

Joined: 08 Nov 2007
Posts: 167
Location: NE Hants

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 08 8:51 pm Post subject:
I have had several ticks this year (more than my dog!). I spoke to a lady while mushrooming recently and she said she had removed 8 ticks from herself after a mornings shrooming walk.

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 08 8:56 pm Post subject:

PeteS wrote:

Can't believe that no-one has mentioned ticks. In the New Forest they are a real problem. I have got one on me before! And my dog gets them regularly. Even in warm summer weather (when we get it) I have to cover up to try and keep them off.

Here you go Pete, not long pulled this chap from me girlfriends leg!!!

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45725
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 08 9:29 pm Post subject:
bashed by waves bitten ,stung , pierced self poisoned once twice if we count the whelk incident safer than shops much safer than shops

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 08 9:35 pm Post subject:
Whelk incident? Do tell more.............

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45725
Location: yes

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 08 9:49 pm Post subject:
big , yummy ,east coast whelks acute but fast spent gastritis as a top line predator whelks are able to concentrate and hold both microflora and toxins whelks are for clean shore forage bashed by waves is sort of ok ,beware of whelks bearing gifts

Stewy

Joined: 17 Oct 2005
Posts: 1453
Location: Berkshire

Posted: Tue Oct 14, 08 10:00 pm Post subject:
Only ever eaten one once which was kindly given to me by the lady at the cockle stall at Lyme Regis, was like chewing a rubber band! (No that I've chewed a rubber band mind!)

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45725
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 08 6:33 pm Post subject:
wounds need cleaning asap and thorns can be horrid ,

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18410

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 08 6:37 pm Post subject:
Yes, I got spiked again yesterday in among some sloes, though not, I think, by a sloe thorn. Tincture of calendula is good for spiked and scratched hands

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 45725
Location: yes

Posted: Wed Oct 15, 08 6:40 pm Post subject:
i have something stuck in a finger as well . umm medic

StuP

Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 123
Location: Aberdeenshire

Posted: Sun Oct 19, 08 10:08 pm Post subject:
Got my first ever tick while foraging for sloes in the woods around Gight Castle the other day. OH whipped it out but the area's still red and itching like crazy. The thought of the sloe gin makes it easier to bear though!

Quail By Mail

Joined: 11 Apr 2008
Posts: 295
Location: Brixham, South Devon

Posted: Mon Oct 20, 08 6:53 pm Post subject:
Found a human skeleton whilst picking fiddlehead ferns for a school lunch project. And chased by a bear when whilst wild blueberry picking. And got pee'd on with squid ink in the eyes and mouth when fishing for them in the Med.

slippery Jack

Joined: 23 Oct 2006
Posts: 34
Location: South Wales

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 08 2:21 pm Post subject:
Spiked myself in back of hand on blackthorn whilst picking sloes over three weeks ago and swelling just about going down now but hand still stiff. Heard of Devon gamekeeper who did same, hand turned gangrenous and it is touch and go whether he will have to have it amputated. Is the gin worth it ? Probably.

gil
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 18410

Posted: Thu Nov 13, 08 2:37 pm Post subject:
Ouch ! Glad your hand is getting better, though. Did you put anything antiseptic on it, or suchlike ? I seem to get [sloe] thorn-scratched with no ill effects - it's when a thorn goes in deeply or gets embedded that there is more of a problem. The one I've been told to watch out for is hawthorn in the spring when the sap is rising - particularly prone to going septic.

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