Painting and drawing seems to have gone “out of the window ” entirely, along with anything else for the time being, I had a heavy fall from a horse a few days ago and sustained a fractured vertebrae, luckily it is stable fracture and I have been discharged from hospital. Pretty battered and bruised all over, but I am hear to tell the tale. Fortunately I was not on my own and medical help arrived pretty quickly once summoned.
As a compromise to my usual post I am putting up a few cheerful photographs of flowering shrubs and perennials in my garden taken earlier in the month and from which I may have painted. The amount of flower this spring has been fantastic the season really seems to have suited the shrubs in particular. I had been intent on getting a few flower studies done.
I am on my back in bed typing this on the iPad and, even if difficult, it is a welcome distraction, but I am not sure how soon I will post again. I don’t think I will be doing a diary blog of my recovery!
Thanks for dropping by …….. and I hope to be back on form (or at least able to sit and sketch and blog) very soon.
Illustrated Country Diary 
You poor poor thing! How utterly horrible! I’ll be thinking of you over the next few weeks and keeping e everything crossed for a speedy recovery. Poor you! Tons of love XXxX lizzie
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Thanks Lizzie for your kind wishes : very, very sore, but could have been a lot worse!🌺
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Get better soon! Having fallen from horses a zillion times, with various degrees of injury, I feel your pain. I suppose, though, like all of us addicts, you can’t wait to ride again 😂
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Eighteen months the consultant suggested! So I think that will be that……😩
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Oh no…😥
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So sorry to hear your news, though it seems appropriate that it is a STABLE fracture having fallen from a horse… I’ve done the same in the past. The trouble is there comes a point when one doesn’t bounce when hitting the ground as one used to! I wish you a speedy recovery.
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Yes,especially as I already have osteoporosis and it was hard surface 😞thanks for the good wishes
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A speedy recovery. Painting is a safer pastime – though my stool collapsed from under me the other day – it has since made it back to full health.
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Ha ha 😉
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Get well very soon !
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Many thanks. 🌺
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Hei, I am so sorry to hear about your fall and can understand how restricted you may feel at the moment – although I have never experienced it.
I do hope that your recovery goes well and that you will be up and running again soon.
Best wishes, Gaynor
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Thank you for your good wishes 🌺🌺
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