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wellll I'm clumsy as fook, have no balance and weigh around 6 tons. I'm also old and knackered with no flexibility left in my body.
Needless to say I pick something up, even if only very minor, on most explores - I should prob get into philately rather than mooching round buildings that are as knackered as I am , but I enjoy it. so
The usual bramble attacks and bruises that I just consider inevitable on explores I tend to get ..well on most explores really.
At Fletchers paper mill I managed to bang my noggin with some force on a large pipe on the way out.
At TG greens when trying to look like we'd just come for a walk coz someone was around I tried to scramble up some earth and on realising I was gonna slip back I made a full and firm grab at some vegitation to stop myslef ...shame said vegitation were nettles ...my they sting when you grasp them firmly and hold on for a second or two.
cut my finger on some glass in a window frame at Huncoat - it bled quite nicely.
Lost a fight with some barbed wire at Bank Hall - it dug a piece out of my leg.
Lost another fight with some barbed wire at Low Bradfield - silent Hill will remember this one.
At the prefab labs at a certain quarry left leg went through a floor to about half way up my thigh and as I fell, I fell forwards and sideways too - so more bruises but at least more surface to stop me faling all the way through.
Brymbo Steel works - last building before leaving as I wandered in and saw some holes in the floor I said to Zero81 that we'd have to be careful in this building and within 20-30 seconds I placed my left foot down to find the floor below it disintegrate into nothing. Unlike the quarry I did not fall sideways/forwards so no more area to stop the fall - instead at what seemed like 200 miles an hour straight down to around two thirds the way up my thigh. I really thought I was going through the floor completely. Think this one shat me up the most I really did think I was going through to the level below. Not nice at all.
lastly at a certain care home access was up onto a small low roof then over some railings and through a window.
On one of the railings when I balance deserted me and weight of my backpack pulled me back. felt like slow motion as I fell backwards heading for the concrete behind me. I hit the concrete with my head and back (luckily head hitting concrete was not hard so that was OK) and my left leg flew up with some force smashing my shin against the underside of the railing.
I carried on but eventually decided to take a look. - The wound was not a nice one - about the size of two 50 pence pieces next to each other and a good few layers of skin gone:
It got infected twice over and some 14 months later there is still large scarring.
The moral of this story being that if any of you explore with Judders......get your camera out BEFORE you go in, as it is usually the access point where he comes a cropper
