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I fell whilst bouldering at Stanage in the peak district a week ago and broke both my ankles. Took about an hour to walk down to the car and then straight to A&E (UK version of ER) for x-rays etc. For the next six weeks i am in these two casts and a wheel chair. F'in ace.
I think his name was Jim who was taking off my lower leg cast?? These are all the girls I am training with.
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I just finished university and now I am starting work on an Orthopaedic Surgical unit. Part of the orientation includes learning how to cut open casts in emergency situations where swelling in the limb is greater than the size of the cast. We went down to the Cast Clinic where we got casts put on and then we got to take them off. It was a lot of fun!
I had to take advantage of my good sky day but this time, entirely around the pond, Kerplunk! I found a young fisherman at the cattails, intent on snagging a bass from the second pond. Actually, I am more interested in active, fly fishing in the Rockies where the catching relies more upon studying and personal talent. In fact the last year of the Lyons Invitational saw a guide for Estes Angler snag 90 trout in a afternoon contest on the South St.Vrain. Even though the ice and snow has been gone from the ponds quite a while now but at least I got out on one (somewhat) blue sky day and shot down at Golden Ponds. As you can probably see from the reflected sky, a good day is fleeting and we would soon be getting pounded. Though it's springtime we got another round of snow although we already suffered four days in May in the 80s. The term 80 degrees is being passed around again for next week - all roller coasters. Well the scientists said the weather would be more violent as the climate warmed: we have already arrived with Antarctica melting. I don't think the Fox Media advertising is doing its usual lying job. Let's hope their believers get whacked first! At least we got to send another good storm out east. Keep an eye out for it. Spring arrived with Thor's hammer a-swinging. Over 3 feet of snow fell near Kremmling, Colorado on what would normally have been grass by now.
I usually look to see what the sky is doing and if I can manage to look, I will pay attention during my trek. I determined this sky was probably good enough to capture on it's own. Meeker and Long's are starting to cloud over again.
They are saying that the snow really peaked for the boards although few ski areas are open if you desire a skiing vacation. A-Basin got a load more snow this weekend. But the original Colorado lottery was designated for outdoor parks and recreation so that season is at our door steps although Arapahoe Basin ski area will remain open into June.
We were missing our shirtless elf in that first shot, now it's really the full line up of Green Mountain Cabaret's "The Naughty List" show. This is from the afterparty.
Click here for the highlights video from the performances that night.
Photo taken by Zinfandel Photography.
Interior cast iron supporting structure for part of the main canopy of Paris Gare du Nord station (France).
The Rothschild family were amongst the main founders of Le Chemin de Fer du Nord rail network in 1845 and this was its Paris terminus. This is now all part of the French national rail system, SNCF.. The station was completed in 1865. The architect was Jacques Ignace Hittorff. This view looks up into part of the supporting structure of the canopy of the station above the platforms.
The style is an interesting mix, a typical feature of 19th Century railway architecture in many countries at that time (and also seen in many other public buildings like market halls and museums). The pillar and capital is in Composite Order classical style with a hint of Gothic revival in the spandrels above it, helping to support the purely functional lattice beams. Notwithstanding the grand stone-built neo-Classical entrance façade on rue de Dunkerque, the structure of the station is 'modern' in the sense that it is built around a framework of iron similarly to the use of steel framing in more recent buildings. (Pioneering construction in iron and glass is often attributed to Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, and the structural use of iron in large buildings goes back only 80 or so years or so before that.) These iron pillars were made at Alston & Gourley's ironworks in Glasgow, Scotland, the only country at the time with a foundry large enough for the task.
The station is one of the busiest in the world, and serves northern France and countries to the NE and N of Paris, including Britain (Eurostar trains, using the Channel Tunnel), Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. It's probably been the most familiar train terminus in Paris to British travellers because the boat ferry trains serving the French cross-Channel ports along the narrowest part of English Channel (La Manche) mostly came into Gare du Nord, and now the Eurostar trains from London do too. We used this station for the Eurostar legs of our holiday trip from London to Sicily and back.
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----- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Northern_Railway
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LONDON - PARIS - CATANIA - ROME - LONDON ----- DAY 9
Photo from the ninth day of our crazy long distance rail trip from home (London) to Sicily. We had had an unscheduled but happy first night stopover in Paris because our Eurostar train out of London was badly delayed due to 'a fatality [unexplained - perhaps fortunately] on the train'. We therefore missed our onward sleeper train connection to Rome, so spent our second day in Paris. We left Paris that evening, on the equivalent sleeper train service a day later. We reached Rome during the third day, where we changed to a daytime train for Catania, Sicily, arriving there the same evening. Our fourth day was our first full day in Sicily, and we spent this in the centre of Catania itself. We spent our fifth day on an excursion to Mount Etna run by GeoEtnaExplorer. We chose this tour company because the guides are geologists. Our particular tour went high up on the flanks on the summit, but not to the summit proper. For this sixth day, our final full day in Sicily, we took the bus from Catania (our base) to Siracusa, in search of Ancient Greek remains, while also getting distracted by other interesting sights, and some excellent ice cream, at various points in the day. But perhaps the most spectacular thing was the huge thunderstorm which hit us in the early part of the afternoon. The seventh day was the start of our homeward journey, for which we took our sixth train of the trip, from Catania and ending with an overnight stop in Rome. We spent the eighth day on a long walk through the heart of Rome, where we hadn't been back since I worked there briefly many years ago, before continuing our way home to London by catching a sleeper train that evening to Paris. It took us most of our ninth day to travel through France, change trains in Paris and to take our Eurostar train back to London.
By the end of the whole holiday trip we had seen things and sites from ancient Greek time to modern, so the trip felt like a mini Grand Tour. Or given the rich mythology of Sicily, Etna and the Straits of Messina (Odysseus, the Cyclops, Scylla & Charybdis, etc.) perhaps our trip was like a modern mini Odyssey of our times. Odysseus took ten years to get home. It took us ten trains - but no monsters.
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Posing with my Favs! Director Bryan Kreutz poses with his favorites outside while on the location set of the apartment building for the Up on High Ground TV series. (Left) Rylee Cravens; (Left Center) Bryan Kreutz; (Right Center) Molly Cravens; (Right) Aliyah Studt
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I am going to get rid of my lovely cast tomorrow ... and I will be free again to do some more stuff ... I guess I cant drive for some more days ...
I had a strange dream today ... that I was driving my bike with cast .. and the cast fell on the floor and broke off ...:D
The cast is finally off ...
For Macro Mondays, theme: Comforting.
After the stress of previous Macro Mondays, Badly Cast man finds comfort in being extremely comfortable.
For anyone who's paying attention, this isn't the rug ... it's a cushion in the same style, which explains the colour difference. It's also very comfortable.
I think this is very springy looking.. green cast, pink toenails and purple toes. Under the cast my foot is a very colorful purple/black