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birding on crutches

To: Geoff Price <>, Tony Russell <>, Birding Aus <>
Subject: birding on crutches
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:57:21 +0930
Gosh if you wanted to take risks I can help out!
Denise


on 17/4/11 2:42 PM, Geoff Price at  wrote:

> Tony, please don't make your, ahem, invention sound too much like a dare
> - I am incapable of resisting them and it was a dare that wrecked my
> knee in the first place! Hanging a third crutch around my neck whilst
> birding from a skateboard with opaque goggles and a straightjacket may
> be possible - but I don't really want to be the cadaver in the morgue
> that proves it's not!! (But part of me really does want to know ... )
> 
> Geoff
> 
> On 17/04/2011 1:39 PM, Tony Russel wrote:
>> If you got a third crutch you could fix your bins to the second rung and
>> hook the top of the crutch over your neck and still look through the bins.
>> 
>> Tony the inventor.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 
>>  On Behalf Of Denise
>> Goodfellow
>> Sent: Sunday, 17 April 2011 9:40 AM
>> To: Gemfyre; Birding Aus
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] birding on crutches
>> 
>> Hi Belinda
>> Nice to hear from you.  I hope your knee is healed.
>> 
>> I've found my office chair great for getting around home, but I've got work
>> in Kakadu that involves "rough spots"! I'm thinking of getting a knee crutch
>> if it hasn't healed by early May.
>> Regards
>> Denise
>> 
>> on 17/4/11 9:14 AM, Gemfyre at  wrote:
>> 
>>    
>>> It really depends where you're birding.  When I badly injured my knee and
>>> was on crutches for about 4 months I ended up hiring a wheelchair - that
>>>      
>> way
>>    
>>> I could get around spots where there were paths easily without exhausting
>>> myself, and I still had my hands free.
>>> 
>>> I didn't even attempt spots with rough terrain.
>>> 
>>> Belinda Forbes
>>> Stirling W.A.
>>> 



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