Dangerous football

What a week. Everything started very good. A few commercial jobs including corporate portraits for New Schools Ltd and conference coverage for The Association of property and fixed charge receivers at Haberdasher’s Hall in Central London. Then some press work including coverage of The Perfume Shop High Street Fashion awards (My Pic of Kelly was published in Daily Express). And today, Sunday I am working again, covering Celebrity football match which was taken place at Millwall football ground with a lot of stars. It was like nightmare. 5 minutes into the match, I am concentrating to take pictures of McFly kicking the ball instead of singing and…. Just from nowhere the ball appeared so fast. I had a second to move the camera away (it cost much more then my face) AND…the ball hit my jaw so hard. Suddenly I felt that not only the ball had hit my face, but also all the eyes around looked at me in fear that I would collapse and the match will have to stop. I felt like a celebrity for a second, as hundreds of fans and supporters were looking at me not at a dozen celebrities around. And then pain made me to come back to reality. Everyone around realised that I will survive especially after I managed to pull a scarce smile on my face and match carried on. But I was in agony unable to scream, as the job comes first then I can indulge myself into pain.
In the evening Nichola and her fiancé came to see me regarding their wedding photography on 12 July. I cannot describe you how hard it was to talk, as my jaw hurt as hell with every word I was saying. I could not smile at all. They probably decided that I am the most unsociable person in the world and I could not explain even why as I could not make myself to say an extra word.
I hope I will have a good sleep as tomorrow I will have to start at 7am, going to take the first pictures of the Chelsea Flower Show. At least there would not be any ball around and I will walk far away from the hanging baskets, just in caseJ