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Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 18th, 2021, 2:29 pm
by nimnarb
This is now becoming too much....,

Consoled myself by watching cricket and saw some marvellous leg-breaks to keep me going. :twisted:

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 18th, 2021, 3:09 pm
by UncleEbenezer
nimnarb wrote:This is now becoming too much....,

Consoled myself by watching cricket and saw some marvellous leg-breaks to keep me going. :twisted:

That's a bit of a silly short leg in the midst off his wicket tale.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 18th, 2021, 5:20 pm
by nimnarb
You masochistic bastard, inclined to come over and break your other leg :lol:

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 19th, 2021, 10:46 am
by redsturgeon
Well worth the wait :D

I have two questions though:

1. Why no ketamine? All the the 999/Ambulance?Paramedic/Emergency programmes the other half watches swear by the stuff.

2. When is the next instalment?

John

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 19th, 2021, 11:31 am
by brightncheerful
I don't know how old i was at the time, too young to remember, when I tripped over a piece of metal sticking out of a bed frame in my parents' house. The cut on the front of my ankle required me to be taken to hospital to have stitches in my foot, I have the scar. Although very painful at the time the experience taught me the difference between my left leg and right leg.

Years later when i was old enough to remember - I can still recall the incident - i was running around in the local park when i tripped over a clump of bamboo stalks/shoots. One of the bamboo stalks penetrated my right leg, requiring me to be taken to hospital to have stitches put in, i have another scar. Not only was the experience very painful at the time but also it messed up my being able to differentiate between my left leg and right leg.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 20th, 2021, 9:48 am
by sg31
What's wrong with Aberdeen?

I've never been there but it sounds very pleasant, in a somewhere I'd quite like to go but it's too much bother, sort of way.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 20th, 2021, 12:08 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Snorvey wrote:PS Aberdeen is ok, A bit dull looking, what with all the granite. Aberdeenshire on the other hand is spectacular.


Talking of granite, do Aberdonians get the same kind of literature we do about risks of radioactivity including radon in their homes?

Many areas around here have routine background levels a whole lot higher than is permitted to the (civil) nuclear industry.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 20th, 2021, 3:38 pm
by scotia
UncleEbenezer wrote:
Snorvey wrote:PS Aberdeen is ok, A bit dull looking, what with all the granite. Aberdeenshire on the other hand is spectacular.


Talking of granite, do Aberdonians get the same kind of literature we do about risks of radioactivity including radon in their homes?

Many areas around here have routine background levels a whole lot higher than is permitted to the (civil) nuclear industry.

Now Now - don't you know that what's natural is not nasty - and everything remotely associated with the nuclear industry is appallingly dangerous.
Getting slightly more serious, the Aberdeen granite problem is well known in old granite buildings - but Aberdeen itself is not in the highest radon emitting areas, although the rate rises significantly inland towards the Cairngorms. Snorvey is quite safe in Lossie!
See https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/340104/HPA-RPD-051_for_website_with_security.pdf for Radon in Dwellings in Scotland. If I'm interpreting table C2 correctly, it states that out of 104000 dwellings in Aberdeen City, 240 were measured and 1 was at or above the Action Level. It doesn't look as if we are too concerned :roll:
In discussions on coping with radon in homes - by under-floor extraction - its normally your neck of the woods that gets attention. I don't know if it has significantly higher levels than in Scotland. But I agree with you - we seem to tolerate levels that would get a nuclear physics lab shut down!

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 21st, 2021, 11:40 am
by UncleEbenezer
scotia wrote: It doesn't look as if we are too concerned :roll:
In discussions on coping with radon in homes - by under-floor extraction - its normally your neck of the woods that gets attention. I don't know if it has significantly higher levels than in Scotland. But I agree with you - we seem to tolerate levels that would get a nuclear physics lab shut down!


Hmmm, there's a fine correlation. I wonder if it's the background radiation levels and radon exposure that have offered us better protection from Covid than the rest of the country?

Any similar areas around the world, where stats might be available?

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 21st, 2021, 10:17 pm
by brightncheerful
Reading your day 1 account, what I don't understand is why you fell over?

After all, you knew it was slippery and were being careful.

Did your mind wander?

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 22nd, 2021, 12:44 pm
by bungeejumper
Snorvey wrote:I guess in my case, I was just unlucky when a peice of ground that I thought to be grippy (going soley by the visual evidence I had) turned out not to be - quite the opposite in fact.

That's very trusting of you. Personally, I incline toward the view that the ground deliberately gave way in order to have a laugh at your expense. Honestly, there was nothing you could have done to avert it.

I had a similar experience while returning from the pub last year. Some distant volcanic tremor, and I tripped over a kerbstone that had been flat on the ground when I first went to step over it. The distant sound of echoing laughter confirmed all my suspicions. :| The bastards.

BJ

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 22nd, 2021, 12:45 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Snorvey wrote:
brightncheerful wrote:Reading your day 1 account, what I don't understand is why you fell over?

After all, you knew it was slippery and were being careful.

Did your mind wander?


It's an enigma right enough. I guess there is always a risk in everything we do, not matter what steps are taken to reduce it.

I guess in my case, I was just unlucky when a peice of ground that I thought to be grippy (going soley by the visual evidence I had) turned out not to be - quite the opposite in fact.


Bad things happen. It's in the nature of accidents that they most commonly happen when you least expect them. Snorvey took a slightly-increased risk by walking in icy conditions, but accidents can happen at any time. We can perhaps calibrate Snorvey's extra risk against others successfully mountain-biking the same trail.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 22nd, 2021, 2:15 pm
by brightncheerful
I incline toward the view that the ground deliberately gave way in order to have a laugh at your expense.


On that principle, is it such a good idea to save the planet? Wouldn't it better if we concentrated on saving ourselves?

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 23rd, 2021, 4:16 pm
by dionaeamuscipula
brightncheerful wrote:
I incline toward the view that the ground deliberately gave way in order to have a laugh at your expense.


On that principle, is it such a good idea to save the planet? Wouldn't it better if we concentrated on saving ourselves?


Saving pah! Lets have a good time! After all I won't live to meet my great grand children so who cares about them?

DM

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 2:20 pm
by csearle
dionaeamuscipula wrote:After all I won't live to meet my great grand children so who cares about them
Let's hope they never become Lemon Fools!

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 2:34 pm
by UncleEbenezer
csearle wrote:
dionaeamuscipula wrote:After all I won't live to meet my great grand children so who cares about them
Let's hope they never become Lemon Fools!

They'll probably never learn to read. The Establishment will be sneering at reading as "elitist" (perhaps it will even be clamped down on as seditious and associated with terrorism, child abuse, and whatever new horrors they're obsessed with by then), and only the kind of kid who would today learn Latin will want to read.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 7:49 pm
by Rhyd6
What have you got against kids that want to learn Latin :) My youngest Grandson decided to learn Latin whilst confined indoors during lockdowns 1 & 2. He found what he wanted on Google and off to go, as I somehow managed to pass "O" level Latin in 190spit he assumed, wrongly, that I'd be able to help. All I remember is how to conjugate "amo, amas, amat" and translate the odd Latin phrase that has crept into the English language. Poor Mr. Hannaby the Latin master, what a thankless task he had because I don't recall a single pupil being excited by the prospect of learning Latin.
Hope you're on the mend Snorvey, bit of a bummer really, confined indoors with Covid and now confined because of a broken leg.

R6

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 8:17 pm
by UncleEbenezer
Rhyd6 wrote:What have you got against kids that want to learn Latin :)
R6

Nothing. Hats off to any kid who realises its importance while still in his/her formative years: I certainly didn't have any interest until later in life.

Though it has to be said, some of those who did latin can be pretty insufferable (mentioning no Prime Ministers). And I suspect that you might have to keep quiet amongst your peers about such effete interests in many schools - even those that offer it as a subject!

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 9:41 pm
by brightncheerful
During the 1960s, I almost joined the 'bring back Latin as an international language' society. Snag was Latin words for more recent inventions had to be invented: life had changed since the era of the omnibus. To this day, whenever I see a sign 'exit' I say to myself he goes out.

I think it may have been Clement Freud who said that Latin is useful for reading monuments in Sweden.

Re: A diary of a well busted leg.

Posted: April 24th, 2021, 11:14 pm
by stevensfo
UncleEbenezer wrote:
Rhyd6 wrote:What have you got against kids that want to learn Latin :)
R6

Nothing. Hats off to any kid who realises its importance while still in his/her formative years: I certainly didn't have any interest until later in life.

Though it has to be said, some of those who did latin can be pretty insufferable (mentioning no Prime Ministers). And I suspect that you might have to keep quiet amongst your peers about such effete interests in many schools - even those that offer it as a subject!


The advantages of learning Latin at the time was firstly, the erotic poems of Catullus that we had to read. Then the homoerotic poems. As 14 year olds, they were the closest we came to porn in those days! ;) Then the dry letters of Pliny back to the Emperor that sound like modern council records of financial problems, road improvements etc.

I'm not saying that Latin should ever again become a compulsory subject, but it does open your eyes to how grammar works and makes it a lot easier to learn other languages. Having said that, Latin was taught very badly in our school, simply due to the new-fangled ways of teaching being tried in the 70s. It was only when I undid all the damage that the teachers had done re. grammar, and re-taught myself that I realised what an amazing language it was.

Steve