kinley wrote:I'm often sadly short of condiments when out on the hills
You're just not trying hard enough - those wee salt and pepper sachets you get in pubs and cafes are excellent for hill-food condimentation. As are the sachets of ketchup, mustard, etc.
HighlandSC wrote:is there any other health issues related to leeches being on you?
Arrr, ye can get infections which could lead to blood poisoning, and possibly Giardia which is nasty. Or some new disease which no-one had heard of before.
Michelle wrote:Or (gasp!) just let them finish and drop off safely on their own.
I read of some bloke who did this in Vietnam and it must have been a different kind of leech, coz it swole up like a football and the blood-donor it was attached to went very pale and dizzy for a few days.
I'd go for the salt option.