It was a Good News/Bad News day today. The Bad News was that this morning as I strode across my patio (approximately 10'x 10', so really not much more than the size of an enlarged paving stone!) my foot struck a folded-up patio chair which clattered down in front of me causing me to execute an entrechat of which Nijinsky might have been proud. I then experienced that mystical deceleration of Time which takes place in the midst of emergencies and I was thus able to appreciate fully Newton's laws of physics as they pertain to mass, momentum, fulcrums and, finally and painfully, gravity! Time reverted to normality and I hit the ground with a crash.
The Good News is that at the age of 71 I do not appear to be suffering with brittle bone disease because, despite landing on elbow, buttock and side of knee nothing broke. The chair gouged a bit of flesh from my shin and normally would have received a good kick for its trouble but I had also stubbed my big toe which, in the peculiar way of these mishaps actually hurt more than anything else. I am beginning to feel sorry for my big toe because it has only just recovered from another accident in which the nail turned black and which has taken nearly a year to grow out. Now it has got to start all over again!
Anyway, apart from cuts and abrasions upon which the 'Memsahib' applied stinging TCP with what I thought was uncalled for relish, all is well. This, of course, is entirely due to the Bonus Points I have banked 'up there' by cutting the grass in the churchyard. See, it's never what you know but who you know!
I for one, would like to see a picture of that toe David.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13gravity.html?no_interstitial
Posted by: JK | Wednesday, 14 July 2010 at 02:37