Welcome to blog! I started it in 2020 to chart my recovery from breaking my ankle (hence the name). I guess no-one saw a global pandemic coming. It's turned into a place where I can talk about the things happening in my life, my horse and my cats. Enjoy!
After another busy week, I decided to have few hours in the garden. I mowed the lawn. Then instantly regretted it as it now looks even more like The Somme…
Bert’s digging activities have lessened over the weeks, but I need to do a bit of filling in so to speak. Not that my lawn is flat at the best of times. The holes did make mowing a bit more of a challenge. The mower kept getting stuck in the holes.
That and Bert was trying to help by leaving his toy for me to throw. Unfortunately it was in the way most of the time. Thankfully I didn’t go over it with the blades.
When I’d finished, I stood back and looked at my handy work. At first I was disappointed. The ‘lawn’ looks really bad. But I guess it’s all too easy to focus on the bad stuff – the holes, the pee marks etc. There’s still lots of grass too! It will grow back. And Bert will outgrow this phase too. Or that’s what I keep telling myself. It’s another job off the list. Hopefully it’s the last cut for the year too. By Spring, I might have a bit more grass (and less of the other stuff).
So 2020 was going to be my year. The year I got my life sorted after being served redundancy notice from my job in November 2019. The year I ticked off more things from my horsey bucket list. The year I got my mental health back under control and reduced stress in my life.
I had a plan. And it was a good one. Then the plan changed dramatically on 2 January. I came off my horse at speed and broke my ankle. Badly. Like all good equestrians, I got back on and rode back to the yard, sorted Buddy out and then drove myself to A&E. That’s where this journey really began...
I was sent home from A&E and told to crack on, only to receive a phone call later to say they’d missed a fracture (and a rather serious one at that). Whoops! So fracture clinic on 3 January, surgery on 5 January and home to recover.
I started this blog as a way to chart my recover back to the saddle. As I cleared clinics and competitions out of my diary and wondered what the next few months would bring, it's been a safe space for me to say how I'm feeling.
The new plan was to get a new job, to keep Buddy is kept ticking over and recover from my injury. Another good plan! I didn't expect a global pandemic, lockdown and all that happened in 2020.
This blog has changed over time but it's continued to be my safe space to share the things going on in my life, with Buddy and the cats. Enjoy!
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