{"id":19909,"date":"2021-05-27T12:40:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=19909"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T11:40:53","slug":"getting-knifed-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=19909","title":{"rendered":"Getting knifed in the garden."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> The resident gardener decided we needed to plant a row of The King 9 miracle grass, otherwise known as Vetiver Grass<\/a> along our new fence to help prevent soil erosion this is\u00a0 where we have built the ground up higher than our neighbour. My task was to remove the mile a minute vine<\/a> from the fence. I chose to use a sickle \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

The inevitable happened and I knifed myself with the sickle. While leaning over the fence cutting &\u00a0 pulling the vine from the chainlink fence the curved blade went in near a knuckle and appeared on the other side between my index & ring fingers \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

We rushed to the local hospital who popped in 4 stitches at the entry point and one incredibly painful stitch where it came out. All for 810baht (\u00a318)<\/p>\n

The wounds are now healing well and when I returned I managed to finish the hacking, with a more conventional straight blade and all the grass was planted \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n