Took the kids to the Isle of Wight for the Half term break, packed the scope and bins, just in case. Had a very pleasant afternoon at the needles and headed to Ventnor for an evening meal on the esplanade. All was well, till I took a tumble down some stairs that is.
Free ride in an ambulance, plenty of entonox, numerous prods pokes and X-rays and the result?
Ruptured ligaments in the right knee and torn left thigh muscles. One leg in a splint and the other next to useless.
And to top it all I'm supposed to be driving my newly refurbished Land Rover to the Cairngorms next week on a four-day organised birding trip looking for Capercaillie.
Bu**er!!!