3 weeks in hell ...
... was the result of one afternoon of fun and games at a friends house in darkest Africa.

The pool pump was being repaired so it had been emptied apart from about 12 inches of dirty brown water over the filter trench. Enter stage right 5 hot, bored and hyperactive 10 year olds full to the gills with Coke and Black cat gum. Their leader held in one hand a plastic surf board and in the other a hosepipe ...
moments later he was sat on the board, feet out in front, in the running water encouraging his mates to push him down the slope. The two biggest, already good second row material, obliged and sent the young 3in7 speeding down the slope. He arrived in a huge plume of water and dead leaves with a faintly painful bump to the soles of his feet - as he discovered that the filter trench was open ...

With barely a moments thought the surf board was flung back up the slope towards the next willing rider while 3in7 began to climb the drier side of the slope to join the queue ... he was half way up when he started to feel a slight itch in the soles of his feet and was about to turn round and have a look when the screams from the top started ... he looked back over his should and was greated by a scene remenicent of a Greenpeace anti-whaling video. The crawl up the rest of the slope followed by man handling out of the pool, succeeded in spreading the blood far and wide - in dead 3in7's mother later described it like something out of Lord of the Flies and she wasn't sure who or indeed what was injured let alone where when she answered the cries for help.

10 stiches in one foot and 6 in the other later - it was a long 3 weeks!
(Biff..., Mon 11 Aug 2008, 16:26, Reply)