I’m afraid this entry will have to be another medical update. I had intended to go up to the Rejoin march yesterday, but got delayed. Sunny as it was, I thought I’d take a walk along the river before heading to the protest. I went down to Greenwich before heading west. The Thames Path is mostly wide and flat. There are stretches of it, though, where it veers away from the riverbank and you have to follow it down back streets and alleyways, where the pavement can be neglected and uneven. I was following one of these paths early yesterday afternoon, just past Deptford, when my chair hit bump in the pavement and I fell out. Luckily some people were nearby to help me back in, but the arm of my glasses had broken off. I had hit my eye, but otherwise felt fine.

However, my specks were my main concern, as without the ability to see I can’t do anything. I caught the bus to North Greenwich, and then one to my opticians in Charlton. When I got there, they immediately saw something bad had just happened. My eye apparently looked bad, so they insisted upon calling an ambulance. While I waited, they kindly repaired my glasses.

When the ambulance guys came, there was not much they could do apart from clean my eye – nothing was cut. They checked me over, but after that there was nothing I could do but return home. I felt fine, even heading back out a bit later to get the tube to Westminster to see what remained of the protest, but I was too late.

All this just goes to show how much London needs to do something about these windy, neglected backstreets. I just got up, and when I looked in the mirror this morning I saw that I had the biggest black eye I have ever seen; it honestly looks like I was in a boxing match. But then, perhaps I have, and this is just my cover story….Trust me, you should have seen the other fella!