An allergic reaction

 Marlene suggested I might have touched something in the garden and then rubbed my eye, which possibly gave me an allergic reaction.  Do you know, Marlene, I think you might be right - and Kath suggested taking antihistamines, which I had done for the last couple of days, so I guess that relieved it.  Yesterday morning, after working in the garden for a while, wearing gloves - I always wear gloves working outside - my eye began to sting again.  I never touch my face with the gloves on, but I think I'd probably rubbed my eye straight after taking the gloves off, before washing my hands.....I guess whatever it was on my gloves transferred to my fingers when I was taking them off.  I've been pruning and weeding all around the garden, so who knows what plant has set off this reaction?  So I washed my hands again and took another antihistamine and the stinging began to subside again.  I do get hayfever, odd skin rashes now and then and sometimes have a bad reaction to bites and stings, so I guess my body just hates nature! 😂😂  I think it'll probably be best to take an antihistamine first, each time I'm going to be doing something in the garden.  And remember to wash my hands immediately I take my gloves off!

Husband lined the inside walls of the raised bed with plastic - he bought a roll of heavy duty bin liners, which did the job perfectly.  We've filled the bottom of the bed with the various layers of old prunings, cardboard and chopped up comfrey leaves, we'll start on the compost and vermiculite on Monday, I think we did enough yesterday (more rain forecast today, and our backs need a rest anyhow).  The previous tenant's green bin full of old prunings had been left on the pavement at the front of the bungalow as it was too heavy to move - the recyclers wouldn't take it as the previous tenant hadn't paid for the past year......well, she had dementia and then died, so she had a good reason for not paying!  Anyway, we found out why it was so heavy - we had to take our (new) wheeled trug thing out there and empty spadefuls out of the bin into that - under the top foot or so of prunings, there were empty wine bottles, lager cans, old plastic food tubs, 2 or 3 dozen cigarette packets.....and then a load of old soil and gravel in the bottom!  How is that green recycling?  Honestly, what a cheek whoever filled it up had, how naughty of them.  So it took us ages to empty it out and lots of the rubbish went into our various recycling bags and boxes.  As I was chopping up the comfrey leaves yesterday, in view of Scarlet's advice that it's very irritant, I threw my gardening gloves away afterwards.  They're cheap enough to buy, I'll get a few more pairs the next time we go to town.

Husband takes 14 tablets a day, half in the morning and half at night.  He tips them out of his dosette box into his hand, before throwing them into his mouth.  Well, obviously unbeknown to him, he dropped one Friday evening, it landed on the floor beside Betty's water bowl and stayed there all night.  I found it in the morning, it turned out to be one of his blood pressure tablets.  I was horrified - not only that he'd not taken it, but more that Betty might have found and eaten it.  She might have then become unwell (I have no idea how it might have affected her) and we wouldn't have known what was wrong with her.  It gave me a cold shiver.  He's promised to be more careful in future.

On Saturdays I don't cook anything elaborate for dinner, we like to have some kind of home fakeaway to eat in front of the TV....something like pizza and salad, burgers and chips (beef for husband, fish burger for me), pasties, things like that.  Yesterday I did us fish finger sandwiches in sourdough bread, with a melty (Emmental) cheese slice and mayo, a finger salad on the side.  It was blimmin gorgeous.