Evening possums. (I love it when you call us blossoms, Vinny:) Winter came yesterday to us, pavements of stone when I left home had turned to wind-blown ice the same evening and I was so terrified. I held on to a railing and tested one boot on the ice and there wasn't a chance, not even a remote one, that I could have stayed upright. I saw a teenage girl slip badly, she didn't get up again and her two friends were squatting down beside her, stroking her gently. She was resting on her elbow so she wasn't unconscious but she may well have fractured something. So how scared do you think I was. TA-DA, enter brilliant crampons!
http://www.devisys.fi/en/index_en.htm Didn't get around to trying them last winter after my backwards fall as I simply didn't dare go out after that, but yesterday I went back into the library again and put them on and tested the ice again, still holding on to the railing - and they were absolutely brilliant. They will save my life and my sanity. I still walked like a 90 year old and it took me forever to get back home, but possums I did it! I felt as euphoric when I got home as if I had won Swedish Idol;-) They are very dangerous on stone (floors, stairs) so I practically walk on my toes in the grocery store but so what. They will think I'm autistic ha ha but I don't care, I'm just so relieved. I did almost slip once... but only almost! I feel much safer now:)
This must be your husband Woofy...?
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Hope they win Jude... 'they' being... erm... well, you know... your team. (Sorry I've no idea...)
No pot in the curry Neti, well you say that NOW but methinks you've changed your tune a lot since yesterday
20:17 Wed 24th Nov 2010