Michael is my cousin's son. He has just spent seven weeks with us in Australia. (Here he is, days ago, fishing with my daughter.) I have just heard that on his first day back at work in Dover, UK, his motor-bike skidded on an oil-slick and he broke his collar-bone and wrecked his Achilles Tendon!!! He 's going to be out of circulation for eight weeks!
Poor old Mike, indeed!
MIKE
Poor old Mike!
He fell off his bike!
Collar-bone broke!
That's no joke!
Leg in plaster!
What a disaster!
Yes! Mike fell!
We wish him well!
