Out and about in the Waikato with the bride today enjoying the new tyres. Visited Dad in Cambridge then out to Pirongia back through Te Awamutu for a nice lunch at a cafe in Cambridge before heading for home. 20km from home we come across some roadworks, speed is restricted to 50kph so I open my visor and immediately get hit in the face and stung by a bee. I like bees but at that moment I most certainly did not. Shit it hurt, now have had a sense of humor failure and a very fat face. Got the sting out when I got home. Spooked the wife when it happened our intercom was on and for a second I think she thought I was having a heart attack.
Made it home, other than that a great day, 270kms. Think we're ready to go on our trip South in a weeks time. Management is quite excited so that's really nice. Been a tough year for
her. Firstly nursing me after my op then the ongoing care of her mum. So a holiday for her is long overdue.
New boots are slowly breaking in. During the week I wore thick socks put the hose in the boots and spent a good few hours in the garden with them on, topped them up from time to time.
You're very fortunate not to be allergic to bee stings Col 🥴
I am and was stung on the arm when a bee flew down my sleeve.
By the time I pulled up and took my jacket off my arm was swelling inside the jacket got it off just in time. I suffered inflamed armpit for a week too.
Getting stung in the face is very very unlucky. I copped a grasshopper in the forehead the one and only time I'd ever ridden without a helmet trying to look tough and ended up crying like a girl on the side of the road until the pain subsided.
Wetting your boots is a good idea to help loosen and shape them to your hooves lol 😂
I keep bees and love them...amazing creatures.
Had one in my helmet about three months ago, while riding at 100kmh...it got in under the chin bar. Managed to open the visor and let it out without getting stung.
If you get stung, try to get the sting out asap because the venom sac remains attached to the stinger and still keeps pumping venom - this worsens the symptoms and also emits an alarm pheromone that guides other nearby bees to the site of the threat (you).
DO NOT try to pull the stinger out, this only squeezes more venom into you. Instead, scrape your nail across your skin where the sting enters it...the edge of a credit card works well too.
An antihistamine tablet usually helps to minimise the body's reaction, and paracetamol can reduce any pain.
If you have had more than a relatively minor swelling from a bee or wasp sting, consider chatting to your GP about it. Some people develop increasingly serious reactions to stings.
Ahhh, the old water in the boots trick! Bloody hell, the memories that can be evoked from a sentence.
When we were teenagers, we were into tramping (and shooting) We'd buy army boots (new ones) because they were cheap, came half way up the calf & good thick leather but they were bloody stiff. We'd put thick socks on, go stand in a river till everything was thoroughly wet then walk in them till they dried out, which took a long while, but by the end, the boots were much more fitting than if you didn't do it. One of the guys wasn't going to do that, reckoned he'd be alright, well first tramp his feet were blistered and raw, poor bugger, but we'd told him, so .. .