To dream of cutting down every single London plane tree

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Because this pollen is INSANE today.

They are so beautiful. But I feel your pain

They have the worst pollen, I've never had as bad hay-fever anywhere else.

The wind is making it worse too

I clicked on your thread as I could not imagine your reason, but sympathy Op.

Where I am it’s the birch trees and pollen in general can make my life a misery. I pray for rain.

Hope you feel better soon.

Try living on a farm (rape and grass) with an avenue of limes alongside your house. Bastarding things. None of the antihistamines are touching it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/16/how-urban-planners-preference-for-male-trees-has-made-your-hay-fever-worse?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

It’s all the males’ fault… (lighthearted, before I get a pile-on!)

Oh, I knew this was going to be about hayfever fever

One workplace I had they were planted all around, and I used to actually be fine walking from the station, but the minute I got to those trees....hoo boy.

You have my sympathies

Tree pollen is making me cough like a 60 a day smoker today.

It's flying around and spiking into my eyes. I swallowed some earlier and choked.

People at work asking if I'm OK because of the streaming tears. And I'm not even that allergic!

Many people hate Boris Johnson for many reasons but my reason is that he planted 20,000 more of these hellplants.

NOOOOH! They (and the parks) are the lungs of London. What's more, they survive because they are unaffected by pollution. The bark absorbs "particulates" that would otherwise be inhaled by us and they emit clean air. The population of London would almost certainly be much less if not for them. Long live the London planes!

Willow trees are doing it for me here. Fluff flying everywhere!

We could plant a different type of tree!

No don’t do that… when you hit them with an axe they’ll dump the pollen on your head… pay someone else to do it!!

I avoid London in April. I have never had such a tight chest so quickly as when being around plane trees.

And my hazmat suit is at the cleaners. Worst timing.

I always find my gimpsuit and a gas mask are a decent alternative.

It’s tips like this that really make MN special

Work - all plane trees. Home - all birch trees. It's a nightmare and this year I am not allowed to take serious antihistamines or decongestants becasue of eye condition. I want to claw my own face off.

Agree

Awful wheezy, eyes, eart, mouth itching, sneezing... etc

I went to death valley once in peak london pollen season at height of my hay-fever suffering

It was amazing i could breathe..... 😃

I had a flat in Streatham once and there was a bastard plane tree right outside my window, which didn't shut properly. I spent the summer wanting rip off my own head.

Ha I was just coming on to quote that! Botanical sexism to blame! 😂
Sympathies with the hay fever sufferers, I've had extra puffs of my inhaler because it makes my asthma worse 😫

Was going to send a bunch of flowers emoji in support, but on second thoughts...
DH gets hayfever, and DS (really badly, and he's a gardener!) For a few years after having him I used to get it too, but it's thankfully gone now - I swear between them it was their fault!

Anything that sheds bark or blossoms sets me off something chronic. When I lived in London I used to walk to work and every time I passed by the British Museum in the early Spring my fingers would swell up like sausages and I would start to cry as if I was a character in Les Mis... and this is having already taken a mad high dose of prescribed Fexi whatsit in the morning (can't take the clora one, makes me vomit uncontrollably). I feel your pain. Literally. I am on a sinus referral pathway too at present so basically I am just the living dead every day...

Tomorrow’s OOTD

I’ve been a mess for weeks!