Actor Richard E Grant has thanked hospital staff in the UK for patching him up after a "heavy metal bar clonked my cranium".
The Withnail and I star took to Twitter to express his gratitude to staff at Stroud General Hospital in Gloucestershire, saying they "glued me together again like Humpty Dumpty".
Am truly indebted to Nurses Holly & Theresa at Stroud NHS hospital for sorting out my head wound this evening.Heavy metal bar clonked my cranium and they kindly cleaned me up & glued me together again like Humpty Dumpty! 👍
— Richard E. Grant (@RichardEGrant) February 23, 2018
Along with good wishes, the japes and Withnail puns followed:
Accident blackspot?!
— Andie Pas de Deux ❄️ (@andiepasdedeux) February 23, 2018
I hope you weren't tempted to groan 'There MUST and SHALL BE aspirin!'
— Paul Gallantry (@pjgallantry) February 23, 2018
Get well soon :)
Because they recognise you as a good egg😀
— Jill Sparrow (@jillpatricia46) February 23, 2018
Should have gone to a prog rock bar, mate.
— Jamie Crawford (@Cut_Thumb) February 24, 2018
I DEMAND MORE GLUE
— UK Medical student (@Anon_medstudent) February 24, 2018
To quote Withnail: "I feel like a pig shat in my head"
— Freedom 🇬🇧 (@KnightsWhoGoNi) February 23, 2018
Take good care of yourself Richard get well soon
"I've got a bastards behind the eyes"
— ☭ spy ☭ (@UltimateMurphy) February 24, 2018
