"Owain" wrote in message
...
"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?

Coarse emery I think. Never thought about rosin, there's still some hanging
about from the kids' string instruments I should think. There's still a lot
of their other jun ... er ... treasured belongings.

| 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 :-)

I doubt it. Depends what you call shapely ...

| 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.

LOL!

I tell you what though - I'm very impressed by some of the stunts I see
practised by skate boarders up, along and down steps. Even Spouse is - and
he's very rarely impressed by anything Yoof does.

Is it going to be the next Olympic sport? It should be, there's an enormous
amount of skill there.

Mary

Owain