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!
Bert and I found a new path today. It’s a restricted byway, so it means I can take Buddy down there too. Bonus!
It was lovely and shaded. Boy was that needed as it was rather humid today. So of course, I decided to mow the lawn, hoover the house and wash the sofa cushions.
The good news is that the sofa cushions dried really quickly. The bad news is that I think I sweated more stuffing the cushions back in their covers than I did taking them out! And I was already dripping from the mower / hoover combo. A delightful image for you.
I now need to hoover again with all the bits that came off the inside of the covers.
Still the lawn looks better (if you don’t look too closely at the holes and brown patches), the house is clean (ish) and the sofa looks cream again (till Bert gets his muddy paws on it). Believe me, my next sofa will be mud coloured. Like my horse…
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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