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Anthony Boydell
United Kingdom
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Dammit!
I was playing football in the Garden with the kids, and some of the other Dads, and to say the lawn is 'a bit bumpy' would be like saying Mount Everest is 'a bit of an incline'. During a particularly effective attack, I stumbled in a dip and twisted by foot a little; nothing dramatic, just enough to re-awaken the Dragon of an old heel injury. Following the 6 all full-time score, and a loooong penalty shoot=out, our team won and I repaired to the drinks table for fermented apple-based refreshment.
My heel began to ache. It ached and was shortly joined by a throb. Seeing the emerging 'impromptu gathering of discomfort', both ache and throb were joined by twinge, shooting pain and ready-for-action limp.
The enormous crowd of family decided a walk across the moors to a rusty Tarn would be in order and I was duly obliged to follow (all hands to the pumps when it comes to herding the 'littlies') - now I may not be a Doctor, but perhaps a 90 minute round-walking-trip on undulating scrubland was not the best thing for my now-quite-painful limb.
Now, a day later, it's quite excruciating...and we're supposed to do another big walk in a Forest, up a hill and onto a plateau of climbable rocky outcrops and 'great for hiding' bracken. Some hope.
Now, if I'd brought my copy of Le Havre, I think I could be set up for the day: beer, snacks, a table on the south-facing patio to enjoy the wonderful weather etc. Perhaps I'll make significant in-roads to the latest Iain M Banks Culture novel 'Surface Detail'? Dixit isn't really a solo-game and the second-hand copy of Golden Heroes (Supervisors Book AND Players Book) I picked up in town the other day needs a few more dice than the NONE I have with me. The living room is stuffed to the gunwales with childrens DVDs and VHS cassettes and I don't have any iPod speakers.
Can anyone else hear an annoying whining sound?
By way of a distraction, here's a picture of shrunken head from Friese's Fiji that I think looks remarkably like m'learned colleague Alan Paull:
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