so today started with a spring in my step and promise in my heart, the day went well until the angle grinder i have had for 10 years broke due to my own incompetence (foreshadowing) whilst cutting one of the rails on my new set of points that i decided to begin making today. well, the grinder broke so I had to get a new one. I called my friend Francis to see if she could drive me to the shop where a new one could be purchased, she could.
so once a new grinder was purchased and the return journey begun we joked about how there was a possibility that I had been ringing to go to the hospital due to some sort of accident in my garden and that Bishop Auckland no longer has an A&E department ( yet more foreshadowing) she dropped me off and then I set back to work.
and that is when it happened the grinding disc got caught and shattered causing the grinder to jump violently, right into my fore finger on my right hand. needless to say I was very dizzy and now dripping blood from my now injured finger.
a quick phone call to Fran whilst I clung onto consciousness by some miracle, Her and Her mum Claire came to my rescue and drove me through to Durham hospital where my finger was seen to by professionals
so that has put paid to me working on my railway for a little while until my finger heals.
for obvious reasons there were no photos of the injury or the points