Sunday, 14 August 2016

The agony and the ecstacy!

Dear Sheddists,

tonight I type a little more gingerly than usual as you may have guessed from the photo opposite.

You see, hitting the letter 'r' on my QWERTY keyboard now requires a deal of ingenuity and the application of a complicated opposing thumb movement worthy of a professional card-sharp in order to render the smallest of digital imprints on this screen!

It happened on Thursday afternoon - a little light pruning with some garden secateurs that went sadly wrong removing the tip from my left index finger.  After two visits to hospital A&E the flow of blood was at last staunched, leaving me nursing an albino, plaster-bound finger-puppet, a pile of crimson-stained bandages and an arm in a sling.  Subsequent attempts to determine the likely prognosis for healing have been aborted.  Two and a half videos on YouTube entitled 'Severed Fingertip' were quite sufficient, thank you.

But now to happier stuff.  Our first trip to Villa Park saw a comprehensive 3-0 victory over Rotherham, bringing to an end a record-breaking fifteen losses on the spin.  One-handed clapping proved a challenge, as did my usual match photography. Several shots featuring the ghostly trace of a large white finger-puppet have since been deleted.

Onwards and upwards, as they say, albeit somewhat more gingerly than before!

Yours as ever,

electrofried(mr)









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