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Sacha wrote:

What? To make them wear shoes when running across a lawn? No it most
certainly is not. NOT if you think they might be stung and that is
avoidable. Not all children are allergic, some are. Some people
(children
included), like me, become more allergic the more they are stung. Think
about it. I can no more imagine watching our grand daughter run into
possible harm than fly to the moon.

What he said, and what I agred with - and still agree with - was:

"isolating children from pain entirely is equally bad for them."

But nobody was suggesting that. Keeping a child from being stung is common
sense.

If the child IS allergic to bee stings, or you have reason to believe
that it may be, then yes. Otherwise, think of the harm you are doing
by preventing the child going barefoot - and there is more than you
might realise.

A very similar thing happened with the late 20th century fetish for
hygiene - preventing infections is good, right? Well, recent research
indicates that doing that too thoroughly can lead to malfunctioning of
immune system development and is implicated in auto-immune diseases.
And I can assure you that those can be VERY nasty.

Some people think that these two things are related, and the increase
in allergies is caused by our artificial environments and, especially,
by not exposing children to such things as infections and bee stings
early enough and often enough. That is very speculative, though, and
I don't know the latest hypotheses.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Janet Baraclough wrote:
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........ it's his sister that does what?

The OP's sister wanted him to get rid of the daisies.

That would seem to be Nick's implication but, the original post read
as follows:-(snip)


No mention of a sister that I can see.

It's in his second post, which you saw, because you responded quoting
from it.
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From: ned )
Subject: Daisy infested grass
Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening
Date: 2003-05-29 16:44:11 PST


John wrote:
Ok,
You all win. I'll keep the daisies. It wasn't actually my idea anyway
to get rid of them but my sister's who keeps saying "You have a
lovely big garden, but you will have to do something about all these
daisies" so now i know that what she really means is she jealous and
i was prepared to listen to her because i know nothing about gardens.
Thank God i found this Newsgroup.

Thanks,

John

(Ned) Hey, don't give in so easily!

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I reckon you spend more time pontificating than you do reading
what other people said.

:-X

Janet

Now Janet, would you care to rephrase that last statement? ;-)

No, I think it stands, don't you?

:-)

Janet.

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from "ned" contains these words:

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from "ned" contains these words:


........ it's his sister that does what?

The OP's sister wanted him to get rid of the daisies.

That would seem to be Nick's implication but, the original post
read
as follows:-(snip)


No mention of a sister that I can see.

It's in his second post, which you saw, because you responded
quoting from it.

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From: ned )
Subject: Daisy infested grass
Newsgroups: uk.rec.gardening
Date: 2003-05-29 16:44:11 PST


John wrote:
Ok,
You all win. I'll keep the daisies. It wasn't actually my idea
anyway
to get rid of them but my sister's who keeps saying "You have a
lovely big garden, but you will have to do something about all
these
daisies" so now i know that what she really means is she jealous
and
i was prepared to listen to her because i know nothing about
gardens.
Thank God i found this Newsgroup.

Thanks,

John

(Ned) Hey, don't give in so easily!

snip(end quote)

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I reckon you spend more time pontificating than you do reading
what other people said.

:-X

Janet

Now Janet, would you care to rephrase that last statement? ;-)

No, I think it stands, don't you?

:-)

Janet.

Ah, touche, Janet. Touche. :-)

--
ned
......... exits stage left, bowing and grovelling, muttering tearful
apologies.

On Fri, 30 May 2003 06:02:57 +0100, Alan Gould wrote:


Good for you John - gardening is an opportunity to do your own thing and
not be bound by what other people think you should do. Our lawn contains
anything which will survive regular mowing, i.e. mostly grass but also
plenty of daisies, buttercups, clover, moss (at times) and a host of
interesting wildflowers according to season. It provides an area for
family recreation and relaxation and it is always a joy to behold.

Ours does too. Plus Selfheal, which looks so pretty and grows 0.5 inches in these conditions.
The bees love all these and so do we. Lower maintenance too.

Kath