a few thoughts i felt compelled to share

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by nightshade

I always look at dirty women(just imagining how they will scrub up)

does that make you a dirty old man ????

[almostnormal]

Originally Posted by nightshade

I always look at dirty women(just imagining how they will scrub up)

Originally Posted by eeyore

does that make you a dirty old man ????

will you look at this?!? my threads been highjacked!!!

today was fantastic from a field work perspective, sunny, warm, still....lots of bitey insects, but i've given up on ever being able to repel them....birds singing, butterflies flittering around. and then, when i'd just finished surveying the titchy little bit of land left, i stepped out onto the pavement and lo, a dirty great lorry whizzed by, straight through an enormous puddle and soaked me. sigh. i'm beginning to wonder....i reckon i must have been seriously bad in a previous life to deserve this!

[almostnormal]

i'm not usually one to revisit a thread thats all but done with, but i felt a bit compelled to share this one, just becasue it was hilarious, even at the time it happened, and sometimes we could all do with a laugh, even if it is coming at my expense!

i was out on the farm that caused the original post, doing a bit of boundary survey. you know the sort of thing, how many species in the hedge, how many in the ditch, how well constructed is the wall. anyway, i was walking along in the field, in sort of waist height hay meadow habitat, counting plum trees and not really paying attention to where i was stepping (mistake 1 me thinks), all was peachy.

as i got to the middle of the field the vegetation was getting a bit, well, higher and the ground a bit squelchier, so i went to move around the sqelchy patch to higher ground (mistake 2). only i went not so much around as straight down. about 2 feet and then forwards. sigh. a bit like calamity jane. managed to scrape myself out of the hole?bog?abyss?? nearly loosing a welly in the process and then found myself, mere inches further into the field, back into the shorter vegetation (knee length) and dry ground.

looking down i think its fair to say that the best possible reaction to my appearance was to laugh. a lot. i mean seriously it was that or run screaming from the scene with a 'oh my god its the creature from the black lagoon!'

needless to say the incident slightly marred my otherwise perfect day, glorious sunshine dried the icky mud to crusty quite quickly and it was virtually impossible to get off, the trousers i was wearing were wrecked, and my notes were a bit, umm, illegible. but i did finish the boundaries i was surveying that day. and after all, these things are sent to try us (apparently they make us tronger) and reduce our families to helpless heaps of laughter

[Adam Cheeseman]

[quote=eeyore;136741]RoFL

Mind you spare a though for those of us doing practical work in the same conditions

if you are using a chainsaw (as I was on saturday clearing fallen trees) then you have to wear protective leggings

if you are wearing protective leggings then you cant wear waterproof trousers over them

this means that your legings will soak up water , a lot of water

which means they will get very heavy


You should try pollarding willow carr when you're knee deep in water. Niiice
Cheers,

Adam

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by Adam Cheeseman

You should try pollarding willow carr when you're knee deep in water. Niiice
Cheers,

Adam

been there done that got the mud stains to prove it - when i was a contractor we did a lot of scrub/willow clearance work on warmwell heath in dorset - a wet heath - very wet and badly named as by the end of the day we were neither warm nor well

between the tussocks, water and slime could be anything from 6" to 3ft in depth - exactly what you want to put your foot in while wearing chainsaw leggings - several times one of us went in waist deep or more and had to be pulled out by the others