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A diary of a well busted leg.

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby bungeejumper » April 15th, 2021, 4:12 pm

Snorvey wrote:(and I'm aware I'm not the only person to break a leg on these boards or elsewhere, so feel free to chip in with your experiences or comments)

Well I haven't broken a leg on these boards, for a start. It was next door's decking that did for my arm. Although it was there in plane sight all along. D'you think we should form a splinter group?

BJ

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 15th, 2021, 5:41 pm

Do we want to know about your leg's cleavage?

Find me the right bust and a good pair of legs, but please let them be separated by the customary body parts!

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » April 15th, 2021, 6:36 pm

Snorvey wrote:Yes, for the first time in my life, I have kept a diary. But only for the title subject. Some might call it a leg-end, but not me.

Anyway, as things are looking much, much better than the dark days of a few months ago, I thought I might share my experience with you all in a short series of posts - just in case any of you folks have the same misfortune as me (and I'm aware I'm not the only person to break a leg on these boards or elsewhere, so feel free to chip in with your experiences or comments)

<ahem>

Day 1. It was a beautiful crisp, cold morning, with a touch of lying snow about. I stepped out of the car and drew a deep breath. Wow. The chill hit the back of your throat with an icy sharpness. A quick check that I had everything i needed and I was off. Global pandemics were something that was happening somewhere else - for today at least.

....to be continued.

I'll see you leg and raise you a finger :lol:

Left index to be precise. Lifted up a pile of books and paper and leaned over to drop it on the floor. Index finger suitably curled under the paper. Sharp pain. Looked down. Nailed popped out from under skin. Phew thought I. Felt like I broke it. Went to hospital to have nail removed. X-ray. Broken digit.

The shame of it all. Breaking a finger on paper :oops:

AiY

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby bungeejumper » April 16th, 2021, 8:54 am

AsleepInYorkshire wrote:I'll see you leg and raise you a finger :lol:

Left index to be precise. Lifted up a pile of books and paper and leaned over to drop it on the floor. Index finger suitably curled under the paper. Sharp pain. Looked down. Nailed popped out from under skin. Phew thought I. Felt like I broke it. Went to hospital to have nail removed. X-ray. Broken digit.

Ha, we nearly had to cancel our wedding because of the ivy on the garden wall. Barely half a kilo of it, probably. Evil stuff, ivy. :evil:

My task for the afternoon, to tidy up the garden for the reception guests. Get a short ladder, just eight or nine feet. Prop it against the stone wall, rip the ivy out and put it in the green bin. Climb down ladder. Open a celebratory beer. Easy.

Stages one and two went fine. And at stage three, the ladder started to slip away from the wall at ground level. (Wet grass.) With me at an altitude of eight feet, and the top of the ladder scraping down the wall as its angle to the perpendicular rapidly widened.

I should have jumped for it. What did I do? Tried to hang onto the stone wall with my fingers, that's what. Popped three finger joints out and heard them snap back into place. (Eurghhhhh, the sound. :shock: ) Looked down at mangled left hand. Two fingers now swollen like pigs in blankets, but with whole pigs where other people would have used sausages. Knuckles like the things they tie ships up with. Not a chance of a wedding ring going over that fourth finger, unless it was a substitute borrowed from a curtain pole.

We struck a compromise. I stopped whimpering and spent the next four weeks with my hand in a cold compress, and a jar of medicated grease got the ring on, and the ivy project was cancelled. It's still up there now, and not doing anybody any harm. It almost looks nice if you try not to notice it.

BJ

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby Dod101 » April 16th, 2021, 9:42 am

I don't think I will read any more of this blood curdling thread.

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby Dod101 » April 16th, 2021, 11:09 am

Despite what I said I have read Snorvey's latest. That was exactly what I was terrified of during January and why I actually stopped walking for a week or two.

Dod

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 16th, 2021, 12:20 pm

Snorvey wrote:Keep reading. That's the worst bit done*




*liar liar pants on fire.

Fire (in a sensitive region) and ice. No wonder you malfunctioned.

Never mind the pain, it'll make a great anecdote. ;)

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby nimnarb » April 16th, 2021, 7:22 pm

Eagerly awaiting the next part. Well written as I’m gringeing with your pain.

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby swill453 » April 16th, 2021, 7:35 pm

It'd better involve a helicopter...

Scott.

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby Rhyd6 » April 16th, 2021, 7:51 pm

No helicaopter, he's on a forest trail, too many trees. I'm opting for sled pulled by a team of huskies driven by a dishy blond medic.

R6

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby kiloran » April 16th, 2021, 7:57 pm

Rhyd6 wrote:No helicaopter, he's on a forest trail, too many trees. I'm opting for sled pulled by a team of huskies driven by a dishy blond medic.

R6

Or a big slobbery St Bernard with a brandy barrel under its neck

--kiloran

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby AleisterCrowley » April 16th, 2021, 8:09 pm

Rhyd6 wrote: I'm opting for sled pulled by a team of huskies driven by a dishy blond medic.

..called Dave :(

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby Rhyd6 » April 16th, 2021, 10:02 pm

Well I was thinking of Brgitte but you know Snorvey better than me.

R6

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby AleisterCrowley » April 16th, 2021, 10:49 pm

I've only met him once (or twice) but I think the poor bloke was scarred for life. No idea what Mrs Snorvey made of us...

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby redsturgeon » April 17th, 2021, 11:10 am

Come on...when's the next instalment?

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby AsleepInYorkshire » April 17th, 2021, 11:41 am

Publish!

Or be damned :lol:

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby redsturgeon » April 17th, 2021, 11:45 am

This is more of a cliff hanger than LoD

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby servodude » April 17th, 2021, 11:52 am

redsturgeon wrote:This is more of a cliff hanger than LoD

John


Snorvey is H? (Sorry.. . "The fourth man")!?

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » April 17th, 2021, 12:39 pm

redsturgeon wrote:Come on...when's the next instalment?

John

Give him time. He might be out there enjoying fine bracing spring weather on some peak!

I look forward to the next episode, but when it's ready, not before!

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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

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Postby sg31 » April 18th, 2021, 9:22 am

redsturgeon wrote:This is more of a cliff hanger than LoD

John


I see a problem with the plot. How is he going to get from the forest track to hanging over a cliff while immobilised with a broken extremity?

An avalanche maybe? Kidnapped by sex starved nubile aliens?

All will be revealed in the next thrilling episode.


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