ticks

hbol <[email hidden]> wrote:
[about ticks]

You ain't had a tick unless you've had one as a teenage boy in the soft skin
between your legs underneath your bollocks and had no recourse but to have
your mother take it out. Lyme's Diesase? I wish it's taken me there and
then! I still cringe, 35 years later!

--
Nobby Anderson

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Quoted message said:

But one piece of advice they offered set alarm bells ringing - they said
not to wear shorts or clothing that leaves the skin open to attack - even
to wear long sleeve shirts and keep them buttoned down. The wife wore 3/4
length trousers so that was obviously the pick up point. We had sat in a
grassy place half way up the end to have a snack. I noticed that while we
were sitting there a party of about 20 to 25 hikers walked past us and
good few of them were wearing shorts and I wonder if anyone else who was
up Glen Doll today is out with the tweezers tonight?

snip

It /is/ good advice. Ticks find it more difficult to get to bare skin if
it's covered. Lots of people wear shorts while walking but do lots of people
also check themselves (or let someone else do it for them) in the evening ?
Long grass is a risk, so is sitting underneath trees like oaks. Ticks use
infrared and let themselves drop on you the moment you (or some animal) are
close to them. They are there but the only way to avoid them is to stay
indoors and who wants to do that ? It certainly is a growing problem.

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

hbol said:

Today the wife and I walked from the car park at Glen Doll up to the end of
Corrie Fee past the waterfall

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Quoted message said:

But one piece of advice
they offered set alarm bells ringing - they said not to wear shorts or
clothing that leaves the skin open to attack - even to wear long sleeve
shirts and keep them buttoned down.

Sound advice. Orienteers generally use full length clothing, at
least in part because of this aspect.

For greater ease of extraction you can get tick-hooks from the vet,
actually designed originally for taking them off dogs AIUI but they
work much better than tweezers getting them out of people. Roos is
a tick-magnet, unfortunately, so we get a fair bit of practice :-(

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/

Quoted message said:

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in the
year :-)

Well that's news - congrats to you both :-)

--
Boo

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Quoted message said:

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Congratulations.

--
Roger Chapman

Quoted message said:

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in the year
:-)

Congratulations. I cant imagine a more appropriate venue for a wedding. All
the best. And thanks for the tip about getting tweezers from the vet - there
is a vets surgery close to the house. The wife does not appear to have
suffered any ill effects from her encounter - alas, I cannot say the same
for the tick.
hbol

uk.rec.walking
Peter Clinch <[email hidden]>
Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:32:26 +0100
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Quoted message said:

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Party time?

I wish you and Roos many (more) happy years.

--
Children in backseats cause accidents
Accidents in backseats cause children

Peter Clinch said:

hbol said:

Today the wife and I walked from the car park at Glen Doll up to the end of
Corrie Fee past the waterfall

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Congratulations. I've always wondered about Roos (the name not the
person :-). Is it a nickname, a contraction of another name, or a
foreign name, or for that matter just a non-English name? I've
always imagined it's Dutch gor no other reason I guess than it's
a bit similar to Ruud. How do you say it - being of Antipodean
origin I started with the shortning of kangaroos ('roos) but I imagine
it's more like "ruse"?

--
Nobby Anderson

Peter Clinch said:

Roos is a tick-magnet

So she ends up as 'the hostess with the mostess' ;^}

Jim Ford

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Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

hbol said:

Today the wife and I walked from the car park at Glen Doll up to the end
of
Corrie Fee past the waterfall

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Congratulations. I've always wondered about Roos (the name not the
person :-). Is it a nickname, a contraction of another name, or a
foreign name, or for that matter just a non-English name? I've
always imagined it's Dutch gor no other reason I guess than it's
a bit similar to Ruud. How do you say it - being of Antipodean
origin I started with the shortning of kangaroos ('roos) but I imagine
it's more like "ruse"?

Roos is Dutch for Rose and you pronounce it almost the same. And Peter is
English for Peter, which is pronounced as pater in Dutch. And English Peter
is pronounced as Dutch Pieter. Do you still follow ?
BTW If Roos is a tickmagnet she must be very warmblooded ;-)

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

Theo said:

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Quoted message said:

Peter Clinch said:

hbol wrote:
> Today the wife and I walked from the car park at Glen Doll up to the end
> of
> Corrie Fee past the waterfall

Roos and I will, weather permitting, be married up there later in
the year :-)

Congratulations. I've always wondered about Roos (the name not the
person :-). Is it a nickname, a contraction of another name, or a
foreign name, or for that matter just a non-English name? I've
always imagined it's Dutch gor no other reason I guess than it's
a bit similar to Ruud. How do you say it - being of Antipodean
origin I started with the shortning of kangaroos ('roos) but I imagine
it's more like "ruse"?

Roos is Dutch for Rose and you pronounce it almost the same. And Peter is
English for Peter, which is pronounced as pater in Dutch. And English Peter
is pronounced as Dutch Pieter. Do you still follow ?
BTW If Roos is a tickmagnet she must be very warmblooded ;-)

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

Hi There

Incase this is of any help to anyone, have a look at this tick remover,
£3.49 plus carriage:

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product126.asp

I do not know if they are any good, but I have just ordered one!

Adrian said:

Incase this is of any help to anyone, have a look at this tick remover,
£3.49 plus carriage:

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product126.asp

I do not know if they are any good, but I have just ordered one!

Cheaper alternative here
http://www.furrypharm.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1086
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

I got 4 ticks a couple of weeks ago after walking on Arnside Knott (South
Cumbria). Ibelieve ticks are quite a new problem in that area and that they
are there because of deer, which are plentiful in that area.

Graham

"hbol" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Today the wife and I walked from the car park at Glen Doll up to the end
of Corrie Fee past the waterfall and on to the top behind (theres still a
couple of patches of snow up there). Beautiful gorgeous sunny day with a
puffy little breeze that kept us cool. Scenery Amazing. This evening the
wife found that she had picked up a hitch hiker somewhere along the
trail - a tick - the tiniest little tick I have ever seen - so, we read
the instructions on tick removal and I think I performed a successful
extraction with tweezers and bagged the little varmint for safe keeping
just in case it developes an infection - keeping a close eye on things
tonight.
Thing is, I did a bit of research on it tonight and found that the
Scottish Gamekeepers Association have voiced concern over the tick
population this year and gave advice on how to avoid them - like, dont do
this and dont go there and dont go anywhere, so really, if you are hill
walking its pretty much impossible to avoid the wee buggers I guess. But
one piece of advice they offered set alarm bells ringing - they said not
to wear shorts or clothing that leaves the skin open to attack - even to
wear long sleeve shirts and keep them buttoned down. The wife wore 3/4
length trousers so that was obviously the pick up point. We had sat in a
grassy place half way up the end to have a snack. I noticed that while we
were sitting there a party of about 20 to 25 hikers walked past us and
good few of them were wearing shorts and I wonder if anyone else who was
up Glen Doll today is out with the tweezers tonight? We must have
encountered at least 50 people on the path today.
We love Glen Doll and spend a lot of time on the trails that start there.
Many years ago we used to take the kids camping there but they have closed
down the camp site now - I dont blame them - the last time I spent the
night in that campsite it was impossible with the ravers and drug takers
and drunks and etc. That was years ago. Still, I wish they would give it
another try as I would like to take the grandkids for a few nights
camping.
Enjoy reading your newsgroup.
H'bol

Phil Cook said:

Cheaper alternative here
http://www.furrypharm.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1086

That's the one we have been using - just the smaller one of the two.
The end is forked and you can grab even the tiniest tick under the head.
Available from most vets - no pets necessary 🙂

Roos

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Quoted message said:

Adrian said:

Incase this is of any help to anyone, have a look at this tick remover,
£3.49 plus carriage:

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product126.asp

I do not know if they are any good, but I have just ordered one!

Cheaper alternative here
http://www.furrypharm.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1086

Do you have any experience with this tickremover. It doesn't look very
reliable.

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

Real men take ticks out with the point of a knife, like taking the eye
out of a potato!

Jim Ford

Theo said:

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Quoted message said:

Adrian said:

Incase this is of any help to anyone, have a look at this tick remover,
£3.49 plus carriage:

http://www.backpackinglight.co.uk/product126.asp

I do not know if they are any good, but I have just ordered one!

Cheaper alternative here
http://www.furrypharm.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1086

Do you have any experience with this tickremover. It doesn't look very
reliable.

No personal experience as I tend to visit Scotland outwith the biting
beastie season, but see Roos's reply up there ^ or down there V
depending on newsreader and preferences.

It has very thin jaws which will always slip in under the tick's body.
It's a bit like a tiny version of a claw hammer, but not used as a
lever it's best to pull straight.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

In message <[email hidden]>, Jim Ford
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Real men take ticks out with the point of a knife, like taking the eye
out of a potato!

Real men are too thick-skinned for ticks to get a hold on.

--
Martin Richardson
539/1554 Marilyns - 65% to go 60/89 Donalds - 33% to go
61/211 Irish Hewitts - 71% to go 20/220 Corbetts - 91% to go

Jim Ford said:

Real men take ticks out with the point of a knife, like taking the eye
out of a potato!

This does work (I've done it...) and I realise you're not
/entirely/ serious, but the great thing about the purpose built
removers is they disengage the beastie progressively, so it doesn't
end up getting dismembered and leaving bits behind, or throwing up
nasties into your blood as its final action.

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email hidden] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/