Stay in, or go out?

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Matesrates

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With the ambulance strike today, the advice seems to be to avoid any risks, including playing sport, even driving your car, but most accidents apparently happen in the home, so will you be making any changes, or avoiding doing something you’d normally do?
 
Matesrates said:
With the ambulance strike today, the advice seems to be to avoid any risks, including playing sport, even driving your car, but most accidents apparently happen in the home, so will you be making any changes, or avoiding doing something you’d normally do?
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I think I may just stay in bed. To be on the safe side
 
I'm going to take extra care boiling the kettle and walking up and down the stairs to/from my home office ( spare bedroom)
 
Mexboroseasider said:
I went up a ladder yesterday.

I’m always relieved when I’m down again in one piece
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I know, and it just gets worse doesn’t it? Houses are dangerous places aren’t they? There is always something broken, leaking, needing a fix or a new battery that is out of reach, and on a bad day something new to put up.

All this three points of contact stuff is all very well, but while you are up a ladder there will always be something to do that needs both hands working at full pressure.
It will also usually need to be done on tiptoe and at an angle of at least five degrees from the vertical so you have to lean your body weight in the other direction while you are doing it. So not today for me.
 
glasshalffull said:
I know, and it just gets worse doesn’t it? Houses are dangerous places aren’t they? There is always something broken, leaking, needing a fix or a new battery that is out of reach, and on a bad day something new to put up.

All this three points of contact stuff is all very well, but while you are up a ladder there will always be something to do that needs both hands working at full pressure.
It will also usually need to be done on tiptoe and at an angle of at least five degrees from the vertical so you have to lean your body weight in the other direction while you are doing it. So not today for me.
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Now if you o buy a cherry picker for £100…….
 
glasshalffull said:
I know, and it just gets worse doesn’t it? Houses are dangerous places aren’t they? There is always something broken, leaking, needing a fix or a new battery that is out of reach, and on a bad day something new to put up.

All this three points of contact stuff is all very well, but while you are up a ladder there will always be something to do that needs both hands working at full pressure.
It will also usually need to be done on tiptoe and at an angle of at least five degrees from the vertical so you have to lean your body weight in the other direction while you are doing it. So not today for me.
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It doesn’t help when your grandson is shaking the ladder and shouting “gan gan” either.
 
When I got my OAP I said I'm going to stop going up ladders, don't want to do a Rod Hull.
Anyway last spring had a birds nest in the chimney stack, roofer wanted £100 to remove it so out came the ladders (again).
Cleared it in 10 minutes. Like others have said always a sigh of relief when you come down unscathed.
 
Apparently the paramedic strike in Blackpool lasted around ten minutes today. As soon as the 999 calls started coming in, they went straight back to work. Fair play.
 
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