How Glad am I that its not time to ski.

Well, looks like its time to start thinking about ski-ing again. Hope everyone had a great off-season. Mine went well until mountain biking in Slovenia 6 weeks ago when old Brucie here managed to have a head on collision with a car on a mountain road!! :cry:

Result - 6 broken ribs,lung problems and a 7 day stay in local Hospital. The good news is that it could have been worse and I live to fight another day. Bad news is that I am still Hors de Combat.

More good things are that I have met many Slovenian friends, and by the way it is a beautiful country, and I should be okay for the forthcoming season.

Sorry to hear about other peoples mishaps. Think we should all stick to safe sports like skiing and boarding :D

wow. glad to hear you're ok, Brucie. that sounds pretty serious.
wishing you a speedy recovery :thumbup: Have you got a skiing trip booked yet?

Brucie,
That does sound pretty horrible. I agree none of us should do any dangerous non-skiing activities.

I was just gardening yesterday and I got stung by some dreadfully poisonous insect through my jeans and it hurt awfully and got all red and swollen and I took some piriton and retired to bed, wondering if I was ever going to wake up again (someone who lived only about a mile away from here died recently from wasp stings).

Anyway, as you can see, I am still alive, and so, apparently are you. Congratulations!

Ally

Brucie wrote:Well, looks like its time to start thinking about ski-ing again. Hope everyone had a great off-season. Mine went well until mountain biking in Slovenia 6 weeks ago when old Brucie here managed to have a head on collision with a car on a mountain road!! :cry:

Result - 6 broken ribs,lung problems and a 7 day stay in local Hospital. The good news is that it could have been worse and I live to fight another day. Bad news is that I am still Hors de Combat.

More good things are that I have met many Slovenian friends, and by the way it is a beautiful country, and I should be okay for the forthcoming season.

Sorry to hear about other peoples mishaps. Think we should all stick to safe sports like skiing and boarding :D

:shock: Heck yeah it could have been worse! Pretty soon the only thing you'll have to worry about is lift lines and pesky avalanches .

IceGhost wrote:Oh no Rose that bites!! Is it all purple and gross looking?

It dont look too good but its getting there.

Thanks for the thoughts folks.
Nothing booked yet Caron. Looks like Austria in January, Canada in March, some kind of pre xmas warm up and hopefully a couple of weeks in Andorra in February.
Hoping do do my Canadian Level 3 this season so kind of waiting for dates to come out.
Any of the other walking wounded got plans?

Ally - That sounds like some poisonous beastie!! :shock: Guess thats a downside of living in tropical West Wales!!! :D

Slovenia is indeed a lovely country with some interesting people. I'd move out there, its in a great spot in Europe.
I'll try to avoid arguing with cars though, they usually win.

Brucie,
The most frightening thing about it was that I never saw what bit me - I just felt an intense pain and then I rushed inside to have a look at my leg. It might have been a horse fly - they're pretty tough because they have to bite through horse 'leather' - but I don't really know.

I am going ski-ing in Tignes in October on the glacier, and then in Courchevel in Feb half-term. I need to start running again to get fit for ski-ing.

I had an awful shock when I went to get some Swiss money (we're flying to Geneva and staying in a hotel there for the night), because the pound seems to have dropped about 6% in about a week, or whenever it was I last looked at the exchange rate. I hope it recovers before Feb because otherwise the lift passes etc. are going to cost the earth.

Rose - I'm glad your toe is still there, in one piece. It's surprisingly difficult to walk without a big toe.

Ally