A small accident

Just as I was feeling in control and enjoying getting exercise each day by walking 45 minutes each way to the office, I was overtaken, in the words of Harold Mcmillan by " events, dear boy, events"!
I was walking fast along an unsurfaced dusty roadway close to the bridge over the stinking (literally) , Bagmati river when I reached a fork in the road and for a minute was undecided about which route to take. I must have hit a stone while I was off balance and the next thing I knew I was pitched forward. Determined not to hit the ground, I held myself with my twisted left foot and knew I had caused some serious damage. I rang Roger who rescued me with a taxi and I managed a couple of hours at work but realised it needed an x -ray. We went to the nearest good hospital and I was treated by a very competent orthopaedic surgeon who diagnosed a fracture of the 5th metatarsal. After 10 days in a splint I now have a bright green plaster cast and am pretty mobile on my crutches outdoors and in my office chair with wheels around the flat. After another 3 weeks I will be able to put weight on it which will be easier. The German health insurance doctors are on my case too, have seen my scanned x-rays and agree with all the treatment so that is very reassuring.
As you can see , I am trying not to let it curtail my bird watching-we saw a spectacular red billed blue magpie in the botanical gardens at Godaveri at the weekend- it had an amazingly long tail.