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News and Comment January 2022

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23 January - Legless

I swear I didn’t hit my head when hitting the deck on Saturday but I made my only trip upstairs on Sunday evening intending to write a short thank you to those who expressed their sympathy at my unwanted fall to earth but by the time I had struggled up I had forgotten and went straight to bed. So I am cheating, it is now 6 a.m. on Monday.

Bandaged leg Looking like something out of a horror movie is not a problem, my right leg being bruised from ankle to hip is what is cramping my style. That and a knee which doesn’t seem to want to bear my weight and determined to make me squeal with pain when I move it.

I was encouraged to see that the safety device fitted to modern folding ladders (a reader sent a picture) was pretty much the same as I worked out could be built into mine. So that is another job for when I am able to drag myself to a hardware shop.

Several Councillors (and my favourite MP) got in touch but I’m not sure if the one who said that when he first saw the blood assumed I had been duffed up by one of his colleagues was being entirely serious but it sounded like he was at the time. (Actually I am sure he was.)

Among the silly things I did recently was to dismantle my ancient AV system with a view to updating it. If I mention Component Video, XLR Audio and SCART those who know about these things will recognise that I am well behind the times.

I have someone coming round later today (Monday) to help me restore it to limited working order so that I can at least watch a DVD. With luck mobility will improve so that I can tackle my fibre installation otherwise Openreach is not going to be at all happy with me on Friday.

QEH told me that I had get my GP to change the dressings by Wednesday; they were joking weren’t they?

When I next get up the stairs to the computer I will try to cobble together something Boris Johnson related, assuming he is still Prime Minister at the time.

 

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