Oh, and while I'm thinking about teeth, I'm sick to the back ones at the road crash that is dentistry in the UK ( Read more... )

The baby has cut his first tooth! A lovely little lower-left incisor. Over the course of yesterday evening it went from barely detectable to pretty obvious. I got terribly excited and sent texts out in all directions. Clearly, no child has ever done anything so marvellous before, and I'm hugely pleased ( Read more... )

So I finally went to my new dentist, and as it turned out they were quite attractive, if not hugely good-looking in a stereotypical way.* He certainly seemed a very good dentist in so far as I could judge. He seemed to listen to me and be genuinely interested in my teeth-cleaning regime and offered advice that was much more helpful than the ( Read more... )

1. Yesterday, Radio 4 (and also The Scotsman some time ago) made a slip about the now-defunct Bill to let paramilitary fugitives from justice return without facing trial. They talked about "parliamentary fugitives" instead, which seems revealing ( Read more... )