From: Adam Flinton 

Doug Bryce wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:12:59 +0100, Adam Flinton
>  wrote:
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>>I had to give up on building the bonfire as I could no longer launch
>>branches high enough to get them on top on the pile.
>
>
> Now *that's* a bonfire ....but could just drag your ladder out
> there, then lug the branches up the ladder and launch from there
> 
>

I have a ladder.....to get up to some tree limbs. I also stopped because I
thought any higher & some weird naked pagans might start turning up
& chanting.....


>
>>One painfull incident. Pulling a large chunk of blackthorn & it was
>>caught in all the other & suddenly gave way & came out..landed on my
>>back in some nettles (just wearing a t-shirt) with the blackthorn on top
>>of me...oh how I did laugh...
>
>
>   Ouch :-((   ...  but I thought nettles only sting if you brush
> against them  ie  any 'forceful' contact crushes the 'stingers' ?
> Keep in mind that I'm going back almost 40 years (shudder!), I don't
> think we have nettles over here.
>

If you're quick to grasp them thats true. If you lie back on them such that
they are towering above you & then roll around a bit while trying to
move a large chunk of blackthorn from your chest then no.

Adam

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