A bag of beans

[Bryan Milham]

So while driving home yesterday I saw this Ash Log just up the road from home, thought 'Ill nip out early Saturday morning and 'acquire that''.

So this morning, just past Sparrow F4rt I'm off. It's still there, 8 foot long, 6" to 7" diameter, just nice for some of the vases I make and being FOG Wood (Found on Ground) - absolutely free.

I pick it up and am making my way the 20 yards back to the car when I slip, I catch my heel, tap my toe and pitch forward in a fall, badly spraining my left ankle.

I left the log (hopefully for another time) and made it home safely but now I'm sat here with a bag of frozen beans melting around my ankle and I guess that's me off my feet for a few days.

Not looking for sympathy - Yes I know where to find sympathy in the Army dictionary! - but thought you'd all enjoy a laugh at my expense though.

[Turners cabin]

i know how you feel i dislocated my sholder this week to 

[woodndesign]

Guess it's beans for tea too... and a blessing off from Rosemary ..

Give the ankle a warm soak, hot as you can bare, then back to the cold, help with the swelling, repeat a few times. Have you back for the log by night fall.

Cheers David

[Les Symonds]

Ha ha .....just spent the day with a mate clearing windfall ash, alder, hazel and birch out of a nearby woodland (with the owner's consent) and the whole job was made much easier by the loan of a tip-up truck for the weekend. Have just crawled out of a hot, Radox soak but need to sharpen that chain-saw ready for the morning because, as things stand tonight, the drive looks like the north face of the Eiger.

Les

p.s. ... hope the ankle gets better soon.

[Derek]

I have no sympathy for you at all because "You left the b----y log behind"

Seriously hope you are back on your feet soon and able to retrieve the log before some other turner find it.

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

"able to retrieve the log before some other turner find it."
just exactly whereabouts was this?
When something like that happens to me I usually have a glass or 3 of a decent malt. It doesn't help the pain at all and certainly doesn't help it heal.................but who cares?

[georg]

                                     OUCH!

   NO Sympathy From us          Shoulda     Coulda     Picked  The  Log Up 

     Take Care Bryan Hope The Ankle Improves Soon.

             Tony and Di

[Eric Harvey]

I hope the log is still there when the ankle is better,or you sprained it for nothing.

[Bryan Milham]

So do I.

[Bryan Milham]

Back to the hospital today to the orthopedic consultant, and;

The good news is it's not broken (it was a long time ago, but I never knew, and that was the free floating bone chip seen in the original X-ray);
The bad news is it is very badly sprained (swollen, bruised and stressed ligaments).

The good news is the cast is off;
The bad news is I've been fitted with some sort of splint.

The good news is I can stand and work at the lathe again;
The bad news is the leg aches like mad and after a couple of hours I'm in bits.

The good news is it will heal fast and I'll be right as rain in a couple of weeks;
The good news is the consultant signed me off until the other side of Easter (to allow it healing time) so lots of turning time to look forward to.

[The Bowler Hatted Turner]

So its all good news really Bryan? can't see what all the fuss was about, you coulda done Yandles after all.

[Bryan Milham]

Well'l'l'l

Rosemary did offer to push me around in a wheelchair!

[woodndesign]

Well'l'l'l

Rosemary did offer to push me around in a wheelchair!

We'd all have pushed you round ... ..  ..

[Derek]

Sounds like alls well that ends well.

But the big question is "Have you got someone to retrieve the log yet"

[Bryan Milham]

No... A friend went looking for me, it's not there!

But he has access to a section of the Mendips and has offered to replace it with a fresh one