I’ve now caught up with myself.
First call today was the dentist for my regular check up and to let him look at my broken tooth. It’s been a problem for over 30 years and a three weeks ago, after Julia treated me to some of my favourite sweets (sugared almonds), it finally disintegrated. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it’s been aching on and off for five years or so, and gradually crumbling for the last year, so it will be a relief to get rid of it. On the other hand, apart from wisdom teeth, It’s the first adult tooth I’ve lost and it seems like a big step towards senile decrepitude.
I may not actually be standing on the crumbling edge looking down into the grave, but I’m getting close.
It has been smoothed off, and in 15 days it will be removed.
“Do you bleed a lot?” asked the dentist.
“No,” I replied, “but I am a coward.”
He laughed. I think he thought I was joking.
We saw two Brimstones and an unidentified white butterfly as we travelled to the farm, though there were none when we arrived because it’s cold and windy again today. We have had a lot of birds in trees by the roadside, including bullfinches (presumably after the buds) and greenfinches, which we don’t see often. Looking at some photographs from yesterday I see I have a good photo of two pied wagtails in the field with the sheep. I hadn’t noticed them at the time and they are, unfortunately, too small to show up in blog-sized photographs.
Julia went to Men in Sheds when we arrived, whilst I started looking for instructions on how to take my camera apart. I only found one, and that showed how to replace a screen, which doesn’t show enough of the interior for me to feel confident about mending it myself.
Repair charges start at £30, and that is for much simpler jobs. I have a feeling we are looking at £50 plus and in the end I will have a clean sensor but the rest of the faults such as a scratched screen and intermittent fault with the zoom action will still be with me.
Time to do some thinking.
Julia, meanwhile, emerged from the Shed with a big smile on her face. Phase One of her mysterious plan is going into action. It involves pink paint and plywood, but I can say no more.
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More good pics. I still have three of my wisdom teeth. The other one slipped out with a mouthful of sausage during a pub meal a couple of years ago. The assembled company declined to inspect it
What sort of sausage was it? I’m currently compiling a list of foods to avoid… 😉
Fat, meaty, juicy, tasty – now avoid that 🙂
I’ll list them under “Food requiring caution”. It’s a risk worth taking. 😉
Ugh, the dentist. They never do take one seriously. Good luck with the tooth and thanks for the beautiful pics, especially of the blossoms.
Thank you. 😉
Sorry about the tooth. Once you’ve got over the removal you will probably feel years younger!
Thanks – yes it will be good to get it done.
Entertaining piece; that’s a super photo of the blossom at the head of the page … good luck with the dentist thing you have going on.
Thanks. 😉