Wouldn't want to be a teacher in france at the moment, the far left have finally gone completely mad.

That's the wife's xmas pressy sorted then [Link]

Yeah- still miss Kentish and his Orwell references.

Great Rangdo of Arg was many years ago. In the predecessor to WUP. No-one ever found out who he was.

I don’t remember the great rangdo…

I would support a bring back KD push. Had my disagreements with him and my agreements with him. Wouldn’t seek to criticise our current mods for their decision making but would welcome a route back if one were available.

True. He went on to work for IBRD in Moscow and is now retired in Appleby-in-Westmorland in Cumbria.

MPH - lucky for him that he avoided the worst alternative…..

A4e - it was the same with my motorbike mate. The leg below the knee was so badly mangled the initial prognosis was amputation. He refused to allow it apparently and he also became a "project" and so it was "rebuilt" and eventually he was able to resume riding - albeit a large c.c. Yamaha scooter rather than a bike. He could no longer get his leg over.

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If only the Great Rangdo or Kentish Don were still around……..

Don't worry a4e, Wup's been dead for years. 😀

Alan - when the surgeon looked at the X-rays with me, he said “Well done, you did a proper job - this will be a nice project for me…” (and it was, but he pretty much fixed it).

Sounds like hell A4e, I love seeing engineering solutions to fix things, in all fields. Innovation being the mother of invention and all that.

Was just offered FREE hospitality tickets for the England match at Wembley on Tuesday.

Glad you didn’t need the external frame AIoW - nothing as bad as your issue, but I once had about 3 months with an external meccano-like structure around a broken wrist as the comminuted fracture meant that it couldn’t just be set in plaster (too many little fragments broken inside, and needed to be packed with extra bone matter taken from my hip, and then all held in place by the frame…). Great times (not)…

Umm morphine...

Wow -it is quiet

Blimey - I seem to have killed WUP….

OI - we need photos….

Again thanks all for your kind wishes.

MPH, you are right, its a hideous yet ingenious contraption that has revolutionise orthopedic medicine. Told pre-op had about 5% chance of needing one, thankfully didn't materialise. Small mercies and all that

Speedy recovery, Alan.

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Speedy recovery, Alan. A member of our motorcycle group was taken out by a car many years ago and had to have one of those Ilizarov frames. Never have I seen a more gruesome piece of kit. However, it saved his lower leg from being amputated which was a result.