Monday, November 21, 2011

you gotta laugh - a self portrait.

Why did the Colonel cross the road? To get run over.
That is unfair as I was not actually run over but instead given a free lift 15 yards up the road. -and lift is the right word because I flew through "the air with the greatest of ease". I am now the proud possessor of divers breaks, cracks, dislocations, cuts, stitches, broken teeth, bruises etc. I am reduced to typing this with one finger. It is now six days after the event and this is the first photograph I have taken (using a tripod). I apologise for it's narcissistic nature.

I must take this opportunity to thank all the NHS workers who have helped to put me back together and laugh at all those yanks who sneer at OUR "socialist healthcare".

1 comment:

Barbara said...

I have just stumbled on your fascinating blog entries of 2006 and 2007, and then read extensively, up to the present - 2012.

THIS COMMENT IS TO SAY HOW SHOCKED AND SORRY I WAS TO READ OF YOUR ACCIDENT AND INJURIES, AND EVEN SORRIER TO SEE THAT NO-ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD RESPONDED A COMMENT OF REGRET AT YOUR ACCIDENT!!!

I AM ALWAYS DEEPLY MOVED/SADDENED TO SEE 'NO COMMENTS" LEFT ON BLOGS OF PEOPLE, LIKE YOU, WHO WRITE SO MUCH ON THEIR BLOGS, INTERESTING THINGS AT PAINSTAKING LENGTH, BUT ALL IN VAIN. AND WE NEVER KNOW WHY, AS IF NO-ONE FINDS THEM, OR NO-ONE READS THEM, OR NO-ONE LIKES THEM, OR CARES ENOUGH TO RESPOND.
TRY TO GET YOUR "SEO" MUCH MUCH SHARPER "OPTIMISED" FOR GOOGLE'S BOT - PUT IN LOTS MORE META-DATA IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES, KEYWORDS, TAGS, & PHOTO-CAPTIONS IN THE
RIGHT PLACES. RESEARCH "HOW TO" ON THE INTERNET - MILLIONS OF HELPFUL PEOPLE AND TIPS OUT THERE WILL GUIDE YOU - GOOGLE YOUR QUESTIONS AND HELP WILL FLOOD IN.
GOOD LUCK!
I SEE YOUR ACCIDENT WAS IN LATE 2011, AND NOW ITS JULY 2012 - BUT... YOU'VE ONLY POSTED ONE THING IN MAY THIS YEAR. AND SO I FEAR YOU ARE NOT RECOVERING WELL, AND MAY BE DEPRESSED AND DEJECTED, LOST YOUR SPIRIT, 'COS YOUVE STOPPED DOING YOUR BLOG, WHICH SEEMS SERIOUS TO ME!! . PERHAPS "GIVEN UP" BECAUSE PEOPLE NEVER RESPONDED ANYWAY ON IT TO YOU? I KNOW THAT TO BE SO UNIVERSALLY IGNORED HURTS LIKE HELL. SO IN CASE THAT'S WHY YOUVE STOPPED, I WRITE NOW TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET BACK ON YOUR HORSE AND BACK INTO THE FRAY. SIMPLY DOING A GOOD JOB ON YOUR "SEO" WILL BRING THOUSANDS TO YOUR SITE.
SO FAR, IT SEEMS YOU'VE SIMPLY BEEN UTTERLY UNFINDABLE AND INVISIBLE AND SEVERED FROM THE GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE, WITHOUT YOUR EVER REALISING THAT. OR KNOWING HOW TO REMEDY THE PROBLEM.
ITS SUCH A SHAME, FOR SUCH A NICE & FASCINATING SITE, AND WITH THE MINDSET OF THE WRITER SO CULTURED AND SENSITIVE, IF IT WAS ME I'D BE PLUNGED IN DEPRESSION BY NOW - AND ALL ON A TRAGICALLY FALSE PREMISE - YOU DESERVE RECOGNITION, DAMN IT!!!

GOOD LUCK, CHIN UP, PUT A SPRING BACK IN YOUR STEP, GET THOSE LITTLE LEGS MOVING, AND TALK TO THE WORLD AGAIN (ONLY, THIS TIME, TECHNICALLY SET UP SO THEY CAN ACTUALLY HEAR YOU).

GOD BLESS.
I'll never know if you ever get this. Hope so!!!!
A Fairy Godmother