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!
This can mean only one thing. Tomorrow Buddy and I are off out competing. This time it’s a spot of Arena Eventing. So that’ll be fun!
What wasn’t so fun was trying to print out my number. I created a template the the club. But my printer decided it wouldn’t print. Lord only knows why?! Clearly it decide to join my keyboard, which has also stopped working.
Of course that could be because Bert spilt lemon and ginger tea on it…. The printer has no such justification. And yes, it has ink.
Very grateful that a wonderful friend was at work and printed it for me.
Apparently the number 57 is nicknamed Grothendieck prime (it’s a maths joke as it’s not a prime number). Buddy has been on top form recently. We need to leave at a rather ungodly hour, luckily the clocks change so it shouldn’t feel as bad as it looks on paper.
Let’s hope we are both primed and ready to have a fun outing.
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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