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[Deleted member 1258]

Looked out this morning and fog was blanketing the Sound but higher ground seemed clear so headed out at 7 o'clock on the trike. Pleasantly warm at 14C with no wind and a nice exercise run with 2 cars and the service bus on the road.
The verges had been cut but at one point he seems to have lifted his blades for a couple of yards and left some orchids but everything else was scalped quite unnecessarily.
When I went to bed last night I felt an itch behind one knee and I knew immediately what this was. A bl---y tick had got me.
This was invisible unless using a mirror so mirror balanced on a box on a stool with mirror on top. Tick tools deployed and head torch on. Nightmare job. Try working behind your knee trying to get the tool correctly placed upside down using a mirror. In the end I had to use the needle nose tweezers to get the thing as the normal removal tools were impossible to get in place. Not ideal but it worked and I use tea tree oil after extraction which seems to sooth the wound.
One of the disadvantages of living on your own as somebody else could have got the thing immediately with no drama.

I remember being on holiday in Austria a few years ago, we were in the park at the top of the village when I felt something on my ankle, it was a tick, I brushed it off with my hand and a few seconds later it was back, at that point I squashed it.

 

[classic33]

I've sprung a leak ! I've been out mooing the loon .

Mis-read part of that and wondered how you'd escaped.

 

[Oldhippy]

Toast o clock

You've reminded me I need to get a new toaster.

 

[cookiemonster]

Mis-read part of that and wondered how you'd escaped.

I still have no idea what he's on about.

 

[classic33]

I still have no idea what he's on about.

It's too warm, he's sweating having mown the lawn.

 

[oldwheels]

I remember being on holiday in Austria a few years ago, we were in the park at the top of the village when I felt something on my ankle, it was a tick, I brushed it off with my hand and a few seconds later it was back, at that point I squashed it.

Are you sue it was a tick? if you felt it then it must have attached itself and could not be brushed off. It certainly could not have returned.

 

[oldwheels]

Did you get your own back on it ?

Very satisfying crunch when put on a hard surface and get a thumb nail on it.

 

[oldwheels]

Strange post on the Oban area road watch FB page. "Queuing traffic at Benderloch caused by a lot of octogenarian cyclists."
Not me anyway. I am still confined due to no ferry bookings available.

 

[Oldhippy]

Wish I was out on my bike.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Are you sue it was a tick? if you felt it then it must have attached itself and could not be brushed off. It certainly could not have returned.

As it had a good chomp on me I assumed it was a tick, it could well have been something else.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Wish I was out on my bike.

And me, I should be out tomorrow if all goes to plan.

 

[Speicher]

Mooing the loon?

He is confuddled and I think he means lowing the mawn.

 

[mybike]

I just realised I forgot to sweep the floor.

That's what happens when you open a window.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've swept the settee this morning but not the floor.

 

[mybike]

My local grubling specialises in depositing crud on the floor. I wonder whether Andy's missing some.

Has he found the floor?