T-Bird Anni Rides Again

We went to the park earlier this afternoon.  Aprilia insisted on going on her bike so I insisted she wore her lid.  She griped, she moaned but she agreed eventually.  All was well going to the park, she played at the park for ages then we headed home. 

There is a steep bank on our route that ends with the main road and for some unknown reason there isn’t one of those metal railing things at the end of it like there are with most of those sorts of pedestrian alleys that tip out onto roads.  Normally she gets off at the top of the bank and wheels the bike down it but today, being as she is now a BIG girl, she decided to ride down then realised she was going waaay too fast and was in danger of flying out onto the road.  So she grabbed 2 big handfuls of brakes.  The bike stopped.  Trouble was she didn’t.  She flew off and pile-drived head first into a concrete fence post.  Que much wailing. 

When I got her back home (thankfully it was only a minute or so away) and had a good look all she has is grazed hands, a bumped knee and a small graze where the helmet strap tweeked her jaw a little.  The helmet, on the other hand, is scrap.  There is one huge great fence post shaped crevasse in it 2" long and a good 1/2" deep just where her left temple would have been had she not been wearing it.  Que mummy feeling sick at what might have been adn one small girl promising never, ever to refuse to wear her lid again.

So, if anyone knows where I can get a mainly purple and pink with kittys on it  Bell  helmet from could you purleese let me know as we got that one at Melrose so I can’t just nip back to the shop and see if they have any more!  (and she wants one the same )