Well that's me off my bike for a while

[coffeejo]

The escape plan is in progress. My consultant had seen the photos i took of my staircase and has spoken with physio. I can go home without being able to manage stairs!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Oh and the other good news is that the next disk up which is the other one that is prone to going is pristine! Looks like I just have the one bad disk which went catastrophically!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Our staircase photos for anyone wondering...
What I can't show you is the fact that they are not all equal height, there is no banister on the right at the top, and the fact that there is not enough space on some of them to put your entire foot...

 

[Saluki]

They are rather mad stairs!

Enjoy your escape. Good news on the pristine disc and that it was just the one that has bitten the dust. So often, it's a bunch of them. So glad that you got a good sleep last night.

 

[potsy]

Must be a great feeling to finally get some positive news, fingers crossed you continue to improve and recover

And no I won't be popping round to photograph the penguins or any other strange creatures you have there, although it is definitely penguin weather today

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Just had a text message from my step father reminding me not to reply in English if one of the guards nurses wishes me good luck as I am leaving

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Must be a great feeling to finally get some positive news, fingers crossed you continue to improve and recover

And no I won't be popping round to photograph the penguins or any other strange creatures you have there, although it is definitely penguin weather today

It would have been your one and only chance of winning a photo competition this year ....

 

[ColinJ]

Those stairs ....!

When you do finally escape, be triple careful about ice back home. I'm sure that where you live will be really icy at the moment. Get your OH to invest in a big bag of salty grit!

I hope you can get away without needing too much more doing to your back.

It would be asking too much for you to come on the Glasson Dock ride again in 2015, but I hope you can make it for my delayed 60th birthday edition in 2016! (My birthday is actually in January, but that is too early in the year for the ride.)

 

[Scoosh]

@Scoosh can you post up your penguins for @potsy so I can launch a successful escape please?

@potsy -

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Get your OH to invest in a big bag of salty grit!

There are some advantages of living in the salt mining area of Cheshire and one of them is that you can easily get 25kg bags of salt for fiver! I shall put him on the case

 

[Dogtrousers]

Wow, there's a kind of Georges Braque feel to that staircase!

Take care, especially in the tunnel. Remember if Charles Bronson can do it, so can you.

 

[ColinJ]

There are some advantages of living in the salt mining area of Cheshire and one of them is that you can easily get 25kg bags of salt for fiver! I shall put him on the case

The main roads had been gritted here, but not the cobbled backstreet that I live on. I walked to the shops to buy chocolate last night and was ok on the way out, but by the time I returned 13 minutes later, ice had begun to form and I nearly came a cropper.

I will have to be careful when I go out on the bike later. I think I will walk the bike over the cobbles unless I am sure that there is no ice left.

 

[Fubar]

Someone sounds brighter! Good news @SatNavSaysStraightOn - and don't try leaping any barbed wire fences on your bike please...

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

There is currently a 2 hour delay at present

 

[vickster]

Delay on what?