Post 1658. Friday April 20
My Friend Rosey has regularly featured on my blog since I set it up twelve years ago. To read all about her in 200 or so words, click HERE
Rosey agreed to join a fundraising run in aid of charity. Not a gentle jog around the park. No, it was organised by the army no less! Heavy boots, camouflage suits, backpacks, helmets and splodges of brown and green face paint. Rosey looked hilarious! Whilst waiting, she adopted her confused look and asked if she had to go over that, under that, through there, up there and down that. I said no, you go under that, up that, over that, up there and through that and down there’.
Then they were off. Her first mistake was to crawl into a burrow from the wrong end coming literally head to head with someone going the right way! She lost her balance on a rope walk and became suspended like a string puppet. After shooting headfirst down a muddy bank, she climbed down a ladder instead of up it, having climbed up a tree, not down it. She clambered onto a bunker but forgot to use the slide to descend and jumped instead, landing in a heap on the ground. Suddenly her laughter became a whimper!
We were in the emergency department for ages, Rosey gripping her throbbing shoulder. She was concerned the delay was because her camouflage prevented the nurses from seeing her, but she was eventually called, and later returned with her arm in a sling and her shoulder relocated. Typically, Rosey managed to find it amusing!
“Did you hear about the person who couldn’t use their left arm?” she asked. “They’re alright now!”
She raised a lot of money; not for the skill she displayed, but for the comedy performance she provided!
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I am glad she is alright now 🙂
It takes more than that to stop my friend Rosey! Cheers Anne
OMG alright now! Ouch! Excellent!
As long as she can still pick up her glass of chardonnay she’ll be fine! Cheers!
What charity put entrants through such an obstacle course? The French Foreign Legion perhaps? Or the Retired Mail Carriers’ Club? You need to do something really upbeat for Rosey tomorrow. No quandaries, no quarrels, no quislings. 😉
Upbeat rather than beat up! Fun day tomorrow without even a broken fingernail!
Alls well that ends well… If she had completed the course in the correct direction, would she have raised the same amount I wonder…… Pity about her injuries though…
I’m sure you are right. I would still have given her my 50p!
Wonderfully written Kieth, one of the best in the series so far, had me chuckling away 🙂 Glad Rosey is seeing the upside, as always!
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Thanks, Iain that’s nice of you to say so.She always does, she’s a half glass full kinda girl, but not for long – you’ve never seen a wine glass empty so quickly!
Admirable, her attitude, that is. Cheers to the lovely Rosey! 🙂
She’s a trooper and will take any challenge offered to her – often with unexpected outcomes!
Bless her little heart.
“camouflage prevented the nurses from seeing her…” Funny times 10.
Thank you Keith.
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Bless indeed! I’m so pleased you liked it.
Rosey is just adorable. Loved this line – “She was concerned the delay was because her camouflage prevented the nurses from seeing her,”
On a tangent, Rosey reminds me of the book “Rosy is my Relative” by Gerald Durrell.
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I’m aware of several Gerald Durrell books but not that one. Seems I have competition! My Family and Other Animals is a classic!
I know … I’ve loved all his books. If I could afford it, I would definitely travel to Corfu 🙂
Every event needs a little Rosey.
…in small doses! Cheers Jacqui
Oh this story had me in splits 🙂
Poor Rosie I hope she feels better. She is quite the trooper to put herself through all of this and so enthusiastically 🙂
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That’s Rosey for you! Delighted to have amused you!
Hi Keith – I can quite believe she raised lots of money from her antics … and am somewhat surprised she wasn’t kept in hospital to stabilise her … in so many ways?! Glad she was suitably patched up and let loose again … cheers Hilary
Even if they had tried to keep her thee, I guarantee she would have made a run for it! Thanks Hilary
Maybe she should take her comedy show — minus the injury — on the road. Who knows how much she could raise for charity!
What a good idea! I just hope she doesn’t expect me to be her roadie!
what a champ. She deserves those funds she raised.
She does, I even gave her some myself!
I’ve never got the purpose of these torture runs anyway, at least she gave it a go. Nice one,
Nor I but Rosey can’t resist a challenge!
Worried they couldn’t see her in the camouflage. Haha! Glad she’s alright now…
Emily In Ecuador
I worry about her sometimes – often in fact! Thanks, Emily.
Ha ha ha. So camouflaged that nurses couldn’t see her!!!
I just smiled and said nothing. You can never be sure if she’s being serious or joking!
She managed to achieve what she set out to, despite injuring herself. Hats of to Rosey aka Calamity Jane. Nicely done, Keith.
Calamity Jane! Spot on Varad