After the event…

It can’t just be me?

I’m an eyesore..well..I mean my eye is still really sore and red although it’s starting to get a little bit better.. Guess these kinds of accidents do take time to repair.

Good job I have two eyes ( I’m lucky there I guess)… At least one is in focus, the other is on its own way to refocusland!

However, following this minor accident, it can’t just be me that does things after the event?

Like simply buying eye protection which if I had worn, then wouldn’t have been in the predicament I’m currently in!

It’s all about risk…. All I was doing was cutting down to ground level some 3 feet tall bracken, which had died back anyway as it usually does over Winter, using my long reach hedge cutters which I find less brutal to use than a brush cutter especially as the area had loose stones on it and a timber fence behind it.

And easily munching its way through the dead bracken, it found (see how I blame the tool, not me the operator!) a long Raspberry came (alive) which was some what taller than the bracken and before I even had chance to think “best avoid that”, it had already cut through it, hurling it back to my face like a whip and so smacking across my head, oh, and eye…grrr.

Now, this has happened before and you would think that I would have learnt after a previous and similar event and on that occasion I ‘was’ wearing goggles!

So how did that happen you may wonder?

Well, stupid as it seems the goggles I wore then keep misting up whilst wearing them (obviously) and they were supposed to be anti mist type, well, hmmm.

So the two little air vents underneath the goggles had covers over them which I thought “good idea… I’ll remove them”

“Ahh, that’s better”…not!

Somehow the long stem of a plant found it’s way inside my goggles through the tiny hole where the air vent cover was and poked me in the eye!…. You couldn’t make it up!

Any yes, I do wear safety glasses when using the strimmer for ‘obvious reasons’. Yet, somehow I seem at times to only react after the event!

Soon my sore eye will be ok and must keep telling myself… ‘safety first!’

Now for another cup-of-T