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You may have noticed (it’s pretty obvious from the posting dates too) that no posts have been made in the last month or so and I felt it needed a bit of explanation…..

1. Our host, who had previously had a relatively unblemished record and who we’ve been extremely pleased with, has had a few ‘technical’ problems in the last month starting with down time and interruptions in email and hosting service and ended with complete server failure last week and took 5 days to get it all up and running again. Such a shame.
2. I went for a cycling and camping weekend with my partner and a few friends in the New Forest 2 weeks ago-and I had a little incident. I managed, for no apparent reason, (and there wasn’t even beer involved) to do a forward somersault over my handlebars. I did manage to land on my feet-but unfortunately halfway round my shoulder took the full force of the road.

   Tip 1 - don’t have an accident on a hot Saturday afternoon-and definitely not during England’s first World Cup match-lots of drunk football ‘fans’ put huge pressure on already over-stretched hospital staff and you end up waiting a long long time and getting mis-diagnosed!

   Tip 2 - lotsa morphine and muscle relaxants make most people sleep - but they also make others ramble incessant rubbish -sorry to the hospital staff and Catherine for me being the latter.

   To cut a long story short, and avoid criticising the NHS without giving both sides of the story, I ended up in hospital with a separated AC joint and snapped ligaments and tendons. Oops. Not the end of the world-but not great either. Pretty painful for bit more than a week and still a distinct lack of movement and strength but slowly on the mend and hoping to be out of the sling soon and back on my bike, driving and typing 2 handed in a few weeks-losing the use of one arm really makes you think and realise how lucky you are with all the little things you suddenly can’t do!

I may even post some of my xrays here at a later date just for amusement value…..

You may have noticed (it’s pretty obvious from the posting dates too) that no posts have been made in the last month or so and I felt it needed a bit of explanation…..

1. Our host, who had previously had a relatively unblemished record and who we’ve been extremely pleased with, has had a few ‘technical’ problems in the last month starting with down time and interruptions in email and hosting service and ended with complete server failure last week and took 5 days to get it all up and running again. Such a shame.
2. I went for a cycling and camping weekend with my partner and a few friends in the New Forest 2 weeks ago-and I had a little incident. I managed, for no apparent reason, (and there wasn’t even beer involved) to do a forward somersault over my handlebars. I did manage to land on my feet-but unfortunately halfway round my shoulder took the full force of the road.

   Tip 1 - don’t have an accident on a hot Saturday afternoon-and definitely not during England’s first World Cup match-lots of drunk football ‘fans’ put huge pressure on already over-stretched hospital staff and you end up waiting a long long time and getting mis-diagnosed!

   Tip 2 - lotsa morphine and muscle relaxants make most people sleep - but they also make others ramble incessant rubbish -sorry to the hospital staff and Catherine for me being the latter.

   To cut a long story short, and avoid criticising the NHS without giving both sides of the story, I ended up in hospital with a separated AC joint and snapped ligaments and tendons. Oops. Not the end of the world-but not great either. Pretty painful for bit more than a week and still a distinct lack of movement and strength but slowly on the mend and hoping to be out of the sling soon and back on my bike, driving and typing 2 handed in a few weeks-losing the use of one arm really makes you think and realise how lucky you are with all the little things you suddenly can’t do!

I may even post some of my xrays here at a later date just for amusement value…..