Well at least you got to sit in front of that wood burner you were bust cutting fuel for :0)

feet up - best to stay off them with the weather the way it is.

glad your on the mend.

"Still housebound ? Hope that the polite words are lasting out."

I can walk a little, but not very far, so most of the load has fallen on my wife over the period. She's done all the fetching and carrying, aided by the children, and I've been well looked after.

Nevertheless, I have a feeling I'll hear a faint cheer as I drive away from the house for the first time,once I'm fully mobile again.

Aitchbee and FE , at least you managed to avoid being a stastistic of the Darwin awards !

spuds

"Goes to show how medical science, procedures and names have improved since that day?."

I was wearing boots with a steel toecap, but the edge of the tree trunk fell onto the top of my foot near my ankle - the toecap was of no use.

The injury (A Lisfranc displacement fracture) was named after Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, who was a French army field surgeon. He first described the injury in 1815, after he saw repeated instances of it in cavalry officers who had caught a foot in a stirrup when being thrown from their horse in battle.

I can vouch for the fact that it's incredibly painful. I tried to walk around on mine for a couple of days before going to hospital.