"Mary Fisher" wrote
| "PoP" wrote
| "G&M" wrote:
| Yep. Just broke my foot today falling down three steps of my
| genuine authentic 19th century wooden stairs.
| I slipped on the stairs about 4 years ago - straight onto my
| coxix or whatever that small knob at the base of the spine is.
| My story is that about the same time Spouse had made me some new
| C15th shoes - we were going to a mediaeval Christmas at St
| Briavel's Castle - and I tried them on upstairs. I realised
| that the soles were very slippery and that they might not
| grip on stone steps.

Gymnasts' rosin?

| So I went down our (carpeted!) stairs, wearing them, to ask him
| to rough them up.
| I was only (!) 12 stones but the bruises on my extensive

but firm and shapely I'm sure :-)

| thigh were vast and deep and as colourful as only bruises can be.

I once tried riding a spacehopper down the stairs. It had a soft landing. I
didn't.

Owain