Ouch

So, today was the first day back at work. Being completely honest I had been dreading it, I could quite happily have stayed in bed this morning. That said, I did get up, looking out my window to find it had snowed at least three centimetres of snow.

Katie and I walked tentatively into work, making sure not to slip on the patches of ice, getting to the station so that I could see Katie off as I walked the remainder of my journey. I get into work pretty early as it is, I don’t mind it as I can relax, do a few bits online before I have to work.

At 8:45am I received a text, a message from Katie saying:

I’ve fallen over, I think I’ve broken my ankle.

My heart races, there’s nothing worse than hearing your loved one has hurt herself. I keep texting her and making sure she is ok, with her updating me on her journey to hospital in an ambulance.

Well, I didn’t have my car did I?! I text my mother, asked her if she could take me home to pick up my car or even take me to the hospital to meet my wife. Luckily she opted to take me to see Katie, luckily when we got there she was 75% of the way through the diagnosis. The physio had looked at her X-Ray’s and it turned out she had two fractures of her ankle and a torn ligament.

How did she do it? Well, the station employees hadn’t bothered to grit the station platforms, so when people walked snow into the station, pools of water and ice had collected on the marble (yes marble) floor inside the station. The station employees had then not bothered to put up “Wet Floor” signs, with one of them admitting that he had been told specifically not to get rid of the surface water.

We have managed to get hold of the station representatives and lodge a complaint, meanwhile Katie is laid up not being able to work at least for a couple of days.

Good start to 2009 eh?!

Update: Now with added X-Ray goodness!

Frosty

It looks like winter is finally here. An example of this has to be Sunday, where I was in Rochford playing football, standing there in the middle of the field fighting off the snow/sleet/hail/rain and high winds. The ground went from being firm and icy to a sloppy muddy puddle in the space of an hour. At least we won.

This week has been busy, esepcially since the Budget report was released. It turns out that because the rate of VAT has dropped 2.5%, we are now having to credit quite a number of issued invoices, amend them and then resubmit them to all the customers wanting to go onto courses with us, great fun. This also means that my companies accounts will have a different flavour to them, coroporation tax, VAT and accounts all need to be filed within the next month.

You may have noticed from my Twitter feed, our household suddenly seems to have a rabbit in residence (in addition to our two cats). Katie was able to find a home for a friend’s house rabbit, but as they were on holiday we have been lumbered with the furry little critter. So far he has managed to gnaw his way through one of my CAT5 cables meaning internet access to the PC upstairs is now down until it can be replaced. Katie seems happy with it and I am able to see it go in a month or so.

Katie is soldiering on trying to get employment after her old employer fired her whilst she was off sick from her back surgery, she is getting stir crazy being in the house all the time. There seems to be some movement from some of her interviews so it shouldn’t be too long until she is working again.

Christmas isn’t far away, we are both looking forward to spending Christmas Day by ourselves in relative comfort without having to appease any family. We are spending less on each other this year, mainly because we seem to have all we want.