Good afternoon friends, I think the current freeze is pretty much nationwide and I want you to take care if you have to venture outside.My dog,Conan, came to me around 9 this morning. I let him out of the back door into the frozen ground in the back garden and I thought I'd go to the garage and turn the heating on for an hour. There are two steps to get to the garden and the path alongside the house to the garage. They didn't look to be icy, just wet so I stepped onto the first one and my legs went straight up in the air and I fell flat on my back. Thankfully my back seemed ok but my elbow wasn't, the elbow that woke me during their night with a horrendous pain, the elbow that was operated on last July. I was unable to get into the house even though my head was on the doorstep, I couldn't get a grip, my knees just slipped and I couldn't stand because I hadn't the strength to drag myself through the door. The temperature was below zero so my only choice was to yell GARETH! and continue yelling his name until I heard him call back. Danger of freezing to death averted! We're pretty well isolated so there's only a remote chance that someone across the fields might be out at their bin or something. When I managed to get into the kitchen I looked at my elbow and there was an egg sized lump on the outside of the bone at the elbow. I was shaking a little but relieved and freezing.
Just goes to show that although I have a feeling that I'm in my thirties, I'm really in my mid sixties and vulnerable. Please take care if you have to venture outside this week.
Tvman xx
