Help!!! I'm new to all this. A complete novice

And so you should be, SM.

.....they've obviously no idea of the great satisfaction that growing stuff in a Green House gives people.

 

I still have the scars in my left hand where, in Aden, I picked up a male/female socket which broke in my hand. Since it was DC it made my hand clench and the shape of the socket was burnt into my hand to the bone. I was an Air Radar Fitter at the time, but because they were short of any sort of electricians I would be called in to sort out any electrical problems as well as those on aircraft. Nobody would admit to dropping the socket onto the concrete floor for some reason

 

Never photographed it, Lori. But you can see the white shape of the socket in the top of my palm and on the inside of my little finger, and the finger next to it, clearly even if the incident happened 50 years ago . I was very lucky in that for some reason the current was going down the left side of my body and I was able to wrench the broken sockets out of my left hand with my right. I was servicing teleprinter machines at the time and was actually screaming in pain but nobody could hear me because of the chattering of the machines. My hand was actually smoking, I kid you not, and it seemed like ages before I got the attention of somebody!! Not a nice memory, but one that was always in the back of my mind when working on anything while in the rif raf and other jobs. I'm still a qualified electrician as well as a Radar Technician, although the latter has moved on somewhat in the modular context and have the greatest respect for electricity as you can't see it, taste it, hear it, but you can feel it if you get "bitten" by it.

 

All looking good SM. Don't worry, if it survived Doris it will still be there when you get back