10/07/2013
Fred discusses asking your kids for digs, plus he has a family guide to the great outdoors and Graeme Virtue clues you in on the shows you should be watching in the TV review!
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Like most people stung many times by wasps and don't like the useless little blighters but a few years ago got stung on my foot and had an immediateÌý anaphylactic shock , very scaryÌý stuff, rushed to the local doctors for immediate treatment.Now have to carry an adrenalin pen at all times just in case - Dennis Grattan
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I had a wasp fly up the leg of my shorts. Got 5 stings. Wanted the pain to go and the swelling to stay -Ìý AE
plenty wasps in our garden near Roseisle!
When I was 9 , I was stung by a wasp that came out of a patch of Rose Bay Willow Herb. I can still see it buzzing towards me and landing on my lip. The pain was excruciating. The lip swelled and for several days resembled one of these members of a rare African tribe with the stretched lips. - IRENE ... Kinross
I was stung by a wasp in the church at a friends’ wedding just as bride was walking up aisle. The wasp had flown up my sleeve and was stinging my back. This was made worse by my husband hitting my back trying to kill wasp ending up with many stings. Left church to take off blouse but video man was taking video so declined doing that! -Ìý Jessmay from Arran.
Cycling along the forth and Clyde canal at speed last week when a wasp stung me in the gap between helmet and sunglasses - almost fell in the canal in the struggle to get off the bike ! A guy fishing gave me a very strange look !Ìý - ALISON
A cleg bite on my back swimming in Loch AweÌý - Pat, Ayr
I got stung on the leg on my way down the blue run at Glentress yesterday! No idea what beastie stung me but the little fella packed a punch. - David Edinburgh
Trimming hedge and managed to "trim" the wasps nest which I didn't know was there. Wasps objected and stung me about 6 times as I fled the scene! Andy - Newton Mearns.
Adders aplenty all around the South of Kintyre, late-1960s. And in long-grass at Lochinver whilst two of us cyclists were sunbathing in 1983, Dumfries & Galloway. - JP.
Few years ago I was stung on the bottom lip by a wasp which was hiding in my bottle of beer. Ended up with a chin like David Coulthard, turns out I am allergic to wasp stings and now need to carry an Epi Pen.Ìý - Gav sitting in my cab in Dundas St. EdinburghÌý
Hi stung by a bee on my bump at 5 months pregnant while bringing washing in very scaryÌý - From Bonnie x
I was stung by a man selling insurance He was a right beeÌý
Yes, I've been stung ... by a well-known rail company!! :D -Ìý Celia, Ibrox
Whilst pony trekking I was badly stung by bees that had gone wild within an overgrown walled garden. The bees were crawling up inside my riding hat stinging me! It was very scary asÌýI was panicking more bees came, a whole swarm! I was also panicking in case pony bolted but thankfully stood stock still! Out of 16 riders only a few of us got stung. Felt ill after multiple stings had to have jab on bum from doctor. Memorable holiday!!!
When I was teaching a wee lass in my class was stung by a wasp. Due 2 health + safety rules we were not allowed 2 use waspease or similar. My mum always used vinegar so i took the girl 2 the school kitchen. The only vinegar was from the pickled onion jar. It worked fine + the girl, her mum, the cook + myself all saw funny side of it.Ìý - Janette, Gartmore
We have a guy in the pub nick named WASP, he has been known to sting a few people in the pub for a fiver!Ìý - From Simon, Landlord of the Woolpack Tillicoultry
John, from Strathearn Pest Control, What Wasps, treated 16 nests yesterday !!ÌýÌý
Was stung last year on upper arm. On my foot when I was a child. Was a wasp . Cut onion in half put that on the sting. I have wasp's in my kitchen roof outside.
Hi Fred and da goddess, I was stung on the soul of the foot when I was a child at Seamill we never knew what it was I originally thought I stood on broken glass. -Ìý Big Boab fae Linwood.
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I once got stung by a bee . £3 50 for a jar of honey
Broadcast
- Wed 10 Jul 2013 10:30´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland