It seems my foray into the garden for dandelions was more dangerous than I first, or even, imagined.
According to a new study released by Apos Therapy four times as many people in Britain have been injured while gardening than while skiing. It seems as if 1 in 10 hurts themselves in the garden and 1 in 40 gets damaged on the slopes. Similarly, one in 20 people hurt themselves while making improvements to their homes, a lower injury rate than skiing.
Housework is more dangerous – statistically – than snowboarding, so if you were planning on dusting maybe put the mop down and phone a professional.
Is that mental or what?
Maybe because one tends to be a bit more careful on the pistes or perhaps one doesn’t warm up and stretch before heading out to the allotment, actually I don’t bother warm up before a ski, but I do generally walk down to the ski lift at Pre Chabert rather than take the shuttle bus.
I had even planned to start a small vegetable patch this year, a few carrots and some leeks, but now I’m not sure, I knackered my shoulder falling down the slopes of Serre Chevalier this season, I dread to think what I might pull in the inter-season.
Should you be tempted to “garden” this year, take it easy as we want to see you back on the pistes safely next season – which is a scant eight months hence.
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I remember the horrific sight from my youth as my Dad drove the garden fork through his wellies, through his foot and then out through the rubber sole of said welly. Even worse was when he had to extract the fork from the human kebab he had just made. I’ve never seen anything like that on the slopes, but there again, why would you take a garden fork on a skiing holiday?