Before we came away Colin and I visited his parents. The conversation turned to memories of a 3 month family sojourn in a caravan when Colin was 8. One of the things that happened on this particular trip was a rather nasty surprise for Colin when he went down a very long and very hot slippery slide. He was in too much of a hurry to grab the hessian bag that was supplied to keep from burning your backside. His cries of glee soon turned to cries of another kind.
The stories continued and a pattern emerged, Colin injuring himself regularly and consistently on holidays! In the last couple of years he has pulled a calf muscle while surfing, taken the skin off his nose, also while surfing (watch out for your own board), fallen on slippery rocks while fishing, hurt an already injured thumb putting up the annexe etc... etc... You get the picture.
Well true to tradition he has done it again - another pulled muscle in the same calf as before. My advice to him is to try and remember you are in your forties, not your twenties, you can't do the same things any more. No running and diving into the surf, just walk sedately like and old man and slowly lower your tired old body in... and do us all a favour in the process!
