Hey peeps be careful out there with the diy. My niece is a consultant ortho surgeon at Oswestry, and she tells me visits to A and E have almost doubled since the lockdown because of diy accidents. The NHS has enough to do at the moment so do take extra care when diy-ing...

Lovely morning, thought I would tidy up my smallish slate garden which involved moving a slate obelisk aside temporarily. Having weeded and removed dead or dying plants it was ready for the 25kg vertical piece of slate to be put back in place..simples! I heaved it up, stumbled, over balanced and slammed it down again, in the wrong place obviously. It split straight down the centre from top to bottom. I now have two, much thinner and less heavy, slate obelisks. I still have the sound of my wife chuckling ringing in my ears. Was I hurt? No just a small dent in my pride.

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Hey peeps be careful out there with the diy. My niece is a consultant ortho surgeon at Oswestry, and she tells me visits to A and E have almost doubled since the lockdown because of diy accidents. The NHS has enough to do at the moment so do take extra care when diy-ing...

Lovely morning, thought I would tidy up my smallish slate garden which involved moving a slate obelisk aside temporarily. Having weeded and removed dead or dying plants it was ready for the 25kg vertical piece of slate to be put back in place..simples! I heaved it up, stumbled, over balanced and slammed it down again, in the wrong place obviously. It split straight down the centre from top to bottom. I now have two, much thinner and less heavy, slate obelisks. I still have the sound of my wife chuckling ringing in my ears. Was I hurt? No just a small dent in my pride.