i'm not usually one to revisit a thread thats all but done with, but i felt a bit compelled to share this one, just becasue it was hilarious, even at the time it happened, and sometimes we could all do with a laugh, even if it is coming at my expense!
i was out on the farm that caused the original post, doing a bit of boundary survey. you know the sort of thing, how many species in the hedge, how many in the ditch, how well constructed is the wall. anyway, i was walking along in the field, in sort of waist height hay meadow habitat, counting plum trees and not really paying attention to where i was stepping (mistake 1 me thinks), all was peachy.
as i got to the middle of the field the vegetation was getting a bit, well, higher and the ground a bit squelchier, so i went to move around the sqelchy patch to higher ground (mistake 2). only i went not so much around as straight down. about 2 feet and then forwards. sigh. a bit like calamity jane. managed to scrape myself out of the hole?bog?abyss?? nearly loosing a welly in the process and then found myself, mere inches further into the field, back into the shorter vegetation (knee length) and dry ground.
looking down i think its fair to say that the best possible reaction to my appearance was to laugh. a lot. i mean seriously it was that or run screaming from the scene with a 'oh my god its the creature from the black lagoon!'
needless to say the incident slightly marred my otherwise perfect day, glorious sunshine dried the icky mud to crusty quite quickly and it was virtually impossible to get off, the trousers i was wearing were wrecked, and my notes were a bit, umm, illegible. but i did finish the boundaries i was surveying that day. and after all, these things are sent to try us (apparently they make us tronger) and reduce our families to helpless heaps of laughter