Nothing happens by accident!

Having put my rubbish in the rubbish container at 8.40 this morning I was walking back to my garage to get my jeep out in order to drive to spend the day instructing from Vilamoura Marina. Failing to notice a bollard that I must have walked past thousands of times, I tripped over it, cut my leg open and blood shot out of the gash like a burst water main!
30 minutes later I was in Albufeira hospital being stitched up. This was my first experience of a Portuguese Hospital, as I walked into the reception area without even breaking my stride (limp) I was ushered down a short passage and into a room where I was asked to lie down on a bed and within a minute my cut was being bathed and pain-killing injections were given followed by the cut being stitched up with about 15 stitches.

Half an hour after my arrival I left the hospital with a dressing on my leg, a prescription for antibiotics and instructions to keep the leg horizontal with an ice pack on it for 7 days! Plus I have to go back everyday to have the dressing changed.

The reality of my situation is that I have cancelled my work for today & tomorrow, but will work after that.

On my arrival at home I installed myself on my sofa with an icepack on my leg, and my lap top across my lap and began to make some changes to my web site (www.martinnorthey.net)
Having made a couple of important changes a great friend telephoned just to say hello, he had sent me details of 'blogging' a couple of weeks ago, but I did not realise what it was all about and had hoped that I would soon have an opportunity to talk to him about it all so I could understand a bit more about blogging and its advantages for me.

So here I am, with nothing to do for the next two days and realise that it is a heaven sent opportunity for me to find out all about blogging. So perhaps even this accident didn't happen by accident!