Falling in? No, falling off......

I have (so far) fallen in twice.

The first time, my cat like reflexes (eat your heart out, Dalton, the Bond gig was MINE, you hear???) meant I actually ended up upside down, hanging from the gang plank. Until, that is, I espied the crate of San Miguel I had been carrying aboard about to do the Titanic thing. I made a hopeless, but understandable, lunge for it, and, well, got very wet indeed.....

The second time was at Jesus Green in Cambridge, where, having moored up, I made the error of "just checking the mooring line", my last words before an unscheduled inspection of the bottom of The River Cam......

Today, however, was a first.

Today, I fell off.

Yep. I fell off the boat.

And it hurt.

A lot.

But do not fear. I am finer than I have a right to be. All bones are still in one piece and although I am somewhat scuffed and will have some rainbow bruises, all systems are still Condition Beige.

So how did it happen?

Well, today, Andreas from nb Rowanberry joined Jackie and I in taking Pippin upstream to load up more of the willow wood that has been felled by the Cam Conservancy. We got a Shed Load! We dropped in at The Bridge on the way home for a very well earned pint and then chugged back to our home mooring on Tracey Island (Well, it's secret...... and Pippin does look a lot like Thunderbird 2....)

I was on Pippin's roof unloading wood. It was all going very well until I threw another heavy log from roof to bank. This one had a small branch sticking out of it which inserted itself into the fleece I was wearing.

You don't have to be a Physics Graduate to work out what happened next...

As I flew through the air, I thought 'Hmmmmm, I'm going to break something now', headed as I was toward the soft-ish bank now liberally covered with very hard logs.

According to Jackie, I executed a very creditable commando roll, and then lay quite still while my body ran a Level 5 Diagnostic on all systems. Andreas thought I was dead, or at least mortally pierced by sharp bits of tree.

No such luck, everyone, you're going to have to put up with my ramblings for a bit longer yet!

All is well, though I have a feeling I'm going to be as sore as a sore thing tomorrow.......