05-12-2015, 12:12 PM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by jon
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lovely photos of your grandchildren meg , just one thing be careful with the soil i saw a programme the other week how a woman was gardening , touch her eye with her dirty fingers & within 24 hrs had a bacteria go in her eye that multiplied at such a rate her eye had become virtually closed & it was eating her skin away ,she was rushed into hospital & nearly lost her eye , ... i was like you let my granddaughter dig but not now .... there's lots of germs in the soil that we cant see
05-12-2015, 12:28 PM
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Re: Losing gardening skills
Originally Posted by jon
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lovely photos of your grandchildren meg , just one thing be careful with the soil i saw a programme the other week how a woman was gardening , touch her eye with her dirty fingers & within 24 hrs had a bacteria go in her eye that multiplied at such a rate her eye had become virtually closed & it was eating her skin away ,she was rushed into hospital & nearly lost her eye , ... was like you let my granddaughter dig but not now .... there's lots of germs in the soil that we cant see
I think that is nonsense 
There are dangers everywhere you can't avoid them all your life.
Children need to come into contact a few germs to build a resistance to infection.
They also need to live life to the full not be wrapped in cotton wool and kept in a box.
My grandchildren attend a school where even the tiny reception class go to 'Forest School' once a week and play in the woods/sit around a camp-fire and cook food on sticks /get plastered in mud
they are no strangers to a bit of muck. They learn about trees and flowers and being self reliant and they are very happy children
My grandaughter is the one in the stream dressed in pink
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