My name is Prone. Accident Prone.
After all those beautiful pictures it’s time for a little shocker again.
Just a little one; I promise.
During the recent storm one of the roof panels of our greenhouse flew away.
After having picked it up from the lawn and having sunk into the mud with a normal ladder, I went behind the house to fetch a stouter ladder. It doesn’t sink as easily, yet it is rather heavy and was standing behind a lot of other stuff that hadn’t been needed during winter.
While I was still struggling to get one end free of the tomato stakes, the other end tipped over a top-heavy bucket containing several heavy pieces of iron.
Of course this hit me full in the left calf.
I do not recommend standing on tiptoe on a ladder in a storm, half lying on a slanting roof that would not support your weight if you really leaned on it, with a leg that is screaming at you, while you’re wielding some plyers in a frantic attempt to wrestle those weird (and seemingly spring-loaded) clamps that hold the panels in place under the framework again.
The pics I took several days later are rather low quality, the first one being rather blurry and the second way too dark, but I think they’re giving a “nice” impression of the bruise/scratch I got.
Enjoy. 
Actually, that would make a cool tattoo design….
And it was even more colourful than any Easter egg.
So…
Happy Easter, everyone!!
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Edit:
Ok, I’ll be generous and pander to someone’s delusions. 
If you click on the image you’ll get a picture of the shark without my bruise.
Both images are - obviously - the property of Frans.
© Frans 2010
April 5th, 2010 at 9:17 pm
*shakes head and sighs*
April 5th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
What?!
Btw, do you guys need any more coloured eggs?
April 5th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
It looks a bit like a shark with legs to me.
April 6th, 2010 at 12:33 am
A shark. With legs. Have you been at the weed, mate?!
April 6th, 2010 at 9:53 am
…and now to something completely different:
Happy Birthday to you,
happy Birthday to you.
Happy Biiiiiiirthday, dear Me-hel,
happy Birthday tooooo yooooouuuuu!
April 6th, 2010 at 10:28 am
The amount of times I’ve “been at the weed” is countable on one hand, and besides it’s illegal in Belgium.
Anyway, I’ll send you clarification over IM. Maybe you should upload them and add them to the post.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:44 am
What, waste my precious server space for your delusions?
April 6th, 2010 at 11:58 am
Yep, waste those 70kBs!
April 6th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
Actually, it’s 157…
April 6th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Turn it into a low quality JPEG? I bet you could squeeze it down to 20.
April 6th, 2010 at 9:04 pm
I bet squeezing down on a bruise hurts like hell.
scnr
April 6th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Are you thinking of the poor bruise in the pic or fingers right now….?
April 6th, 2010 at 9:11 pm
umm.. so didja get my sms? No?
well, it went something like
WOOHOO! iSS YOUR BIRTHDAY!
so didja get it? huh?`huh?
April 6th, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Lol, yeah, I got it.
And as I took two days of vacation I don’t care whether it’s a workday for anybody else or not.
April 6th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
w00t, teh shark is online!
And a delusion would be if I thought there actually was a shark in/on your leg.
April 6th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
LOL LOL LOL
Shark with legs. Its simply genius
April 7th, 2010 at 4:19 am
That bruise looks something like a corporate logo to me. Perhaps you could rent out your body for advertising. An appropriately shaped die could be fabricated, placed on your skin and struck hard with a mallet, leaving the corporate bruise highly visible for several weeks.
The shark in the picture could have legs, or it could be a very excited male shark displaying multiple masculine organs.
April 7th, 2010 at 4:21 am
Ooops, I meant to add:
Happy Birthday!
April 7th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Now that you mentioned it, Mel, fingers come to mind…
April 7th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
@ Frans: You’re deluded anyway.
@ Pan: And you too.
@ David: Or I could strike you hard with a mallet…
And I am not deigning an answer concerning the shark topic.
Birthday’s over.
@ the nasty kitten: Hah.
April 8th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
@David: I may have seen a shark in it, but I didn’t see that.
April 8th, 2010 at 8:13 pm
Good for you.
April 9th, 2010 at 7:16 pm
*shakes head and sighs*
nastyKitten took the words right out of my fingers.
Happy Birthday, Mel!
Yeah, yeah, I know it’s late, but better late than never.
April 9th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
What? Stuff happens to me.
‘S my life.
Well, got a buncha flowers from the neighbour today, so someone else was even later than you.
April 10th, 2010 at 12:18 am
*What? Stuff happens to me.
‘S my life.*
“See, Doctor, let me explain how it happened…”