Across the UK, across continental North America and around the world on the internet by webcast

and podcast, my name is Howard Hughes, and this is The Unexplained.

Well welcome to 2010 and what a year down in Melbourne they've had 37 degree temperatures

at midnight, a real heat wave down there in Australia, up here in the northern hemisphere

where we've had weeks and weeks of Arctic conditions that people said had gone away

because of global warming, apparently not. As I look out of my window right now,

a slow four has started where I live and they tell us that at least for the moment this has

all abated, I was quite lucky I was out of the country for most of it and I was in South Africa

where the temperature average something like 27 degrees we had a few days of about 32 or so

very nice but going to South Africa was not exactly easy for me and I'll tell you for why.

If you read my last newsletter you will know the two days before I flew, I slipped on the thick

ice in London just two minutes after I'd worn one of my neighbours to be very very careful on it

and I had a choice and I know that within about a second or two I had to make a decision whether

my wrist was going to hit the concrete and probably break or whether I was going to try and

avoid that happening, which I did. So here's what I did. Literally within that second as I fell,

I spun my arm backwards and my shoulder took the entire force. Well the kind of long story very

short I ended up in the local hospital here who were very very good, they looked at what had happened

to me, my shoulder was swollen, they thought I might have a break or a fracture somewhere in there,

apparently I don't but what I do have is a thing called a rotator cuff tear. Now the rotator

cuff is like a little gasket that's inside your shoulder but when that tears let me tell you

you pain. So that's where I've been I had to go through Heathrow Airport in a sling and I'm still

as I record this at the beginning of January in a certain amount of pain but at least I was able

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