09/01/2008
Irregular Shed posted a photo:
I stopped to make sure that everybody was okay (that’s my car in front). The girl you can see was in severe nervous shock, and her boyfriend who was driving her to university (first day back after Christmas) ended up being taken on a spinal board to the hospital for precaution.
A van driver was tanking along at full pelt and smashed into the back of them when they put on the brakes to let someone pull out of a traffic queue in the inside lane (which was where I was). The van driver was fine, although his van was written off. Either way, he was to blame for the accident - I saw it happen in the wing mirror and he was driving far too fast for the conditions.
What was scary was the amount of damage done to the car. Both front seats dropped back, and the passenger seat twisted where the chassis buckled. The force was sufficient to pop the stereo out of the dashboard and the car was shunted about 40 metres down the road. If this had been my car, there’s no doubt that Jack would’ve been injured.
I stayed here, with these guys and another witness, until the police took my details for a witness statement.
Irregular Shed posted a photo:
The statue of Merlin on the corner of the Merlin Inn, in Pwllgwaun, Pontypridd.
Let’s all hope that 2008 is great. Given I enter it with bandages and wrist supports, it can only get better!
(And yes, I’m sat at home, on my sofa, in my pyjamas, on New Year’s Eve. At least I’ve got a bottle of Champagne - rock and/or roll!)
Irregular Shed posted a photo:
Merry Christmas from my mother-in-law’s sofa.
Irregular Shed posted a photo:
I love it when TV stations have faults. This happened during a particularly good episode of Criminal Minds though… bah!
Irregular Shed posted a photo:
Here’s a fake police car (minus the "Police"/"Heddlu" livery for legal reasons) on the back of a truck. It blocked my way into the office. Scumbags!
Yep, Christmas is being rubbish.
On Thursday, whilst ice skating with my work comrades in Cardiff, I fell. Badly. I put my arm out to stop myself walloping my face on the ice, and then felt something pop in my arm. Seconds later the wave of pain came, and, as happens to me when in pain, I started fainting. Fainting in an ice rink — not a good idea. I managed to get to the side and flopped myself over the barrier, safe in the knowledge that someone would come to my aid. Sure enough, people came to my aid, paramedics and a nice policeman (who was obsessed with finding coffee) got me to the first aid station in a wheel chair, and my day out was over.
Fortunately my arm’s not broken. I’ve done something to the tendons by the feel and sound of things — it hurts like hell and I’ve got to keep a tight bandage on my arm for a while. It make things hard, especially trying to get Jack into bed, or serving food, but at least it’s not a break.
On Friday, I tried to start the car and found the battery was flat again. The connector for the stereo is all wrong and supplies 12 volts continually instead of only at ignition, which wasn’t an issue with the old one, but the new one seems to be a thirsty little bugger. Somehow I managed to get thebattery out, and to the house, with only one working arm - clearly I am Superman.
And to top it all off, despite having our phone line fixed (the old junction box was corroded), our broadband is 22 times slower than it used to be. It’s hard getting anything done online at 122kbps…
So, Merry Christmas y’all. Hope yours is better than mine has been!
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