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!
It seems we have a new water feature on the marshes behind the close. Bert and I had a very splashy walk round the fields to find considerable flooding!
I mean, I know we had a lot of rain, but this is bad! It’s very marshy and was draining into the neighbouring water meadow. But then I guess that is the point of them. They are there to catch the water. Hence the name!
Bert thought it was a lot of fun splashing through the puddles. He wasn’t so keen when he face planted through a rather large one. He tried to style it out, but we both knew.
He had time to drip dry while we waited for a group of walkers to climb the sty. I say group. There were a lot! So it took a very long time for them to negotiate it. Then there was the mud…
The poor women who’d organised the walk said they had checked it out on Thursday and it was all good. I felt for them as they tiptoed through the quagmire.
Bert was very well behaved considering the time it took. And the fact he wanted to play with his toe. He got lots of attention though.
When we got home, his equafleece went straight in the washing machine. Still it did the job as he wasn’t too wet in the end.
It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes the new lake to drain away fully. I won’t be able to check it out again till at least Friday…
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!
View all posts by langlep
Tales, Tails and Talus 