Back again.
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 12:35 am
Well another summer`s pretty well gone and we`re back home in the UK.
The river trip was unfortunately cut short as I managed to break my leg on day 2 of a 12 day trip - nothing to do with the white water though - I was on a beach and slipped on some rocks. Plateau fractures of both the right tibia and fibula ....... which hurt like b*****y ! I`m still wearing the second ( $650 ! ) brace which is a lot more comfortable than the first one and allows much greater mobility. Spent most of August on my brother-in-laws deck in Westchester N.Y. which was very pleasant anyway. The rest of the time we seemed to spend in airplanes and airports - 10 flights in 29 days !
The articulated brace did allow us to go and visit Mehul and Preethi in Chicago where they were quite magnificent hosts, picking us up from our hotel each day and driving us around. One of the highlights was a visit to a gunmaker - Dave Norin - who showed us some of his wondeful work. A traditional gunmaker and stocker who builds superb custom rifles for a bargain $10k. He also showed us a Greener Lee-Speed .303 rifle that he is restoring and restocking for a client which is going to be really special when completed - I`ll leave the description to Mehul to provide. I also had a very interesting conversation with Dave about his colour case hardening which duplicates the traditional British colours very accurately.
Don`t know yet what next summers holiday will bring......except that it`s likely to be the USA again but I`m not planning anything that requires any physical exertion.......I`ve had enough of broken legs ! In the meantime we`ll be discussing Mehuls` reciprocal trip to the UK sometime in 2007 when we`ll be going pigeon shooting and deerstalking.
The river trip was unfortunately cut short as I managed to break my leg on day 2 of a 12 day trip - nothing to do with the white water though - I was on a beach and slipped on some rocks. Plateau fractures of both the right tibia and fibula ....... which hurt like b*****y ! I`m still wearing the second ( $650 ! ) brace which is a lot more comfortable than the first one and allows much greater mobility. Spent most of August on my brother-in-laws deck in Westchester N.Y. which was very pleasant anyway. The rest of the time we seemed to spend in airplanes and airports - 10 flights in 29 days !
The articulated brace did allow us to go and visit Mehul and Preethi in Chicago where they were quite magnificent hosts, picking us up from our hotel each day and driving us around. One of the highlights was a visit to a gunmaker - Dave Norin - who showed us some of his wondeful work. A traditional gunmaker and stocker who builds superb custom rifles for a bargain $10k. He also showed us a Greener Lee-Speed .303 rifle that he is restoring and restocking for a client which is going to be really special when completed - I`ll leave the description to Mehul to provide. I also had a very interesting conversation with Dave about his colour case hardening which duplicates the traditional British colours very accurately.
Don`t know yet what next summers holiday will bring......except that it`s likely to be the USA again but I`m not planning anything that requires any physical exertion.......I`ve had enough of broken legs ! In the meantime we`ll be discussing Mehuls` reciprocal trip to the UK sometime in 2007 when we`ll be going pigeon shooting and deerstalking.
Where have you been, Jefe? We didn't see much action from you recently.