The Diary rarely sheds a tear for those partners who return from adrenaline-fuelled hols snowboarding in Aspen or shark-jumping in Hawaii with various bumps and bruises (or even the occasional broken limb). Indeed, the closest the Diary gets to extreme sports is watching the football on TV with the sound turned way up.
So your correspondent initially had little sympathy for Ashurst real estate partner David Evans, who limped in for a recent meeting sporting a hefty cast on one foot – the result of his penchant for competitive horse riding or, more specifically, eventing.
