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"Urgh, manual labour."

Ever since my sister moved out just under a year ago, I've been constantly drafted into helping out at her house. Today we were digging to get the garden ready for the conservatry they're having put in. Me, my dad, my brother, my soon to be brother in law and his dad, and my sister.

And I'm definitely not cut out for manual labour. Boiling hot day, with the first hour wasted waiting for the skip to arrive, sitting in the garden looking at the 3 by 3 metre hole we had to dig. When it finally arrived, we spent the day digging rock hard clay. As some of you will know, clay is not spade friendly.

I spent most of the time running back and forth with one of the wheelbarrows, running up the skip ramp at full speed to get over the mountain of earth that was quickly building up. As soon as I took it back, the next one was full, and when I got that back, the first one would be full again. And so on and so on. When I wasn't running back and forth, I was trying to shift about a tonne of clay, soil and solid bricks (left over from the builders) to the other end of the skip so we could fit more in, or lifting flag stones back and forth, along with huge countryside wall type bricks, or attempting to dig the hole by shouting at it to dig itself, and hitting it with my spade. Got blisters on my hands, splinters in my fingers, my back is killing me and so are my arms and legs. The only time I got to rest was when everyone else stopped digging and the seemingly infinite flow of clay and soil stopped briefly. I'm a little girl when it comes to manual labour, and although I can do it, I certainly don't like it. Like many people here, I'm a geek. The most physical thing I should be doing is typing and moving a mouse around.

Bah, helping people move and sort out their gardens is the only physical thing I ever do which isn't fitness related. Well, other than arm wrestling... Now I've got to go clean my trainers, they're covered in crap (not literally) from standing in a skip all day.

Sounds like a challenge...

:^)

Buy Deep Heat Extreame. I can't cope with that stuff, It burns. It burns.

Dr Duck wrote:
> I thought you were talking about your helmet in the other thread?
>
> :^)

heh, and what a helmet .... :)

I thought you were talking about your helmet in the other thread?

:^)

cookie monster wrote:
> And then makes you blind.

where there's blame there's a claim ....

"i got deep heat in my eye, I got £12,000"

And then makes you blind.

yeah, and if you accidentally rub your eye I bet it hurts like a b*tch

Just about at the heat level where it doesn't do you any particular favours now.

Conclusion:

I used a lot. Presumably if you used it 'normally' effects would be reduced.
With the amount I did use, it makes a nice muscle relaxant / toastifier. Treating injury though, it'd probably be pretty useless.

Takes a while to take effect, and never threatens to top a comfortable level of heat. Still, if you're only looking to be toasty it'll last about half an hour. Not bad.
Then again, you're all gooey, so you can't really put clothes over it. If you want to be toasty putting on a bunch of warm clothes would probably have more or less the same effect, and would probably take a similar amount of time for you to warm up.


Conclusion: Heat rub is fairly lame, except maybe for mild cramp or something.

Heat very slowly fading now. Still nicely warm, on the cool side of toasty.

I'm begining to see your point. Maybe not quite instant, and a bit messy (I used a lot), but nice in a hot water bottle kind of way.

Dr Duck wrote:
> I've used it for crap / overly tense muscles in the past. I'm not sure
> why you'd want to use it to be toasty...

well its quite nice being toasty, and if you don't happen to have a hot water bottle, just rub that stuff all over, and hey presto - instant gratification