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littleme
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Were there any extra 'covid' fees, at the dentist @staffordjas? One of my fillings has decided to fall out, typical after I cancelled my April check up appointment, so I'm just wondering what to expect, as I've read on their website that treatment has to be paid for over the phone before your appointment.I splashed out on some oven cleaner yesterday and attacked mine. (Usually give it a wipe over when washing up after cooking, but amazing how much black tar-like stuff came off using the Mr Muscle stuff on it.) Face mask came in very handy for that as well with so many fumes from the stuff.
Didn't manage to see my usual dentist who knows all the work he's done on my teeth for the past 40 years. Panic stations set in even more at that news when I arrived at the surgery. X-rays showed a pocket of infection under the one tooth, as well as rest of gums infected. 5 days course of Amoxicillin and if that doesn't work it's go back next week and fill their coffers again for an extraction or root canal in addition to the £22.70 paid today.
In the mean time got to go for a deep clean tomorrow morning with the hygenist .....special offer £35My usual dentist normally does a quick scale and polish while he's doing the check-up....which they cancelled.
Can't get to see my usual dentist as "He's really busy "
Wishing I took after my dad for teeth. When he died at 84 he still had all his original teeth in perfect condition , not one filling or anything. When he went into hospital they insisted he took his teeth out for an operation. They didn't believe him when he said he couldn't
staffordjas
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A customer nicked sons works £70+ thermometer for testing the staff the other week. Saw the bloke on CCTV standing with his back to it, reaching behind him and pocketing it!
Normal £22.70 lowest charge , but charged me twice as saw 2 separate dentists ( not my fault,, they offloaded me onto the other dentists list the week earlier. Felt too ill and faint to question it when I came out and had to pay again after seeing my usual one)
Paid in there, they were taking both cards and cash. Noticed 2nd weeks receptionist didn't sanitise her hands after counting the cash box .
First week the reception team made patients knock the locked door , and sanitise hands on entry. Then let you out afterwards.
Second weeks team left the door open for everyone to walk in and out themselves and weren't asking patients to use the sanitiser.
On another note.... My hairdresser charges £5 sanitation fee. Told me she would leave my fringe longer as I could keep going back for the complimentary fringe trim, which now needs an appointment for...
Rang to book fringe trim. Fringe trim is still free, but not really as I'd have to pay £5 sanitation charge for the couple of seconds doing a couple of snips.
Got the kitchen scissors out and made a good job myself !
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
That's what really winds Mrs p up, year after year
Lucy
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Tiger XCA.
We have a triple garage (although the front of one bit is a summer house/cycling studio) but he wants to move it closer to the house, and in that case it needs to be smaller and not filled with junk. He's also got his Granddad's old Norton but that's in individual pieces.That's what really winds Mrs p up, year after year
Gramaisc
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That's quick, 20 is thought of as youngish for that stage.Mowing the lawn today I noticed my Oak Tree (which I planted at about the size of a Dandelion 12 years ago) has got acorns on it !!! I've never seen it do that before.
Perhaps you gardening types can tell me if this is normal ...
Of course, it may have had a year or two before it was placed into your tender care.
Some of your foreign oak types can be a bit quicker, too.
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Ooh, nice!
Trumpet
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Coolio. Triumph triples rock. Any post pandemic trips planned?
Had a couple of Nortons in the past, just out of curiosity what's the Norton?
Gramaisc
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Especially when they're idling on the stand.
Lucy
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He only got it because I said I would go on the back occasionally, so I am sure we will use it for days out and maybe the occasional camping trip to the Peak District.
I have no idea what Norton it is, it is really old though and the engine is completely rusty and seized so unless he gets that fixed it'll just sit in a box forever.
BobClay
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This pix shows it after I planted it in 2009 ... (so 11 years
) and the acorns now on it. In my local one day it was given to me in a pot, having been grown from an acorn there so I was told. Yes it was a bit taller than a dandelion, I'd estimate about 50cm. When I took it out of the pot, the roots were all curled up into a sort of 'cannon ball' and I couldn't see how to get them apart without damaging them so I just stuck it in the ground and told it: 'You figure it out.'
Which it has by the look of it ....
BobClay
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It's grown like the clappers in recent years. It's about 20 foot high now, and getting too close to my transmitting aerial for comfort. I'm going to have to prune it a bit from the top once winter sets in. I might need some advice on that because I don't want to damage it too much.
Gramaisc
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When the leaves are gone, cut it back a bit further than you want it to be when it returns, it will fluff up a bit.
In 1999, somebody was giving away native trees at the school (as it was) on Riverway. I decided to get one and, relying on a cycle at the time, I took my largest rucksack with me to get the 'tree'. I elected for a Holly and was handed what was basically a leaf in a pot the size of a teacup.
It is undoubtedly true that you will get a 'better' tree the smaller it is when it is placed in its final location, but this Holly did virtually bugger all for a decade, being barely a foot high by 2010. 80% of its current volume has arrived in the last two years.
In 1999, somebody was giving away native trees at the school (as it was) on Riverway. I decided to get one and, relying on a cycle at the time, I took my largest rucksack with me to get the 'tree'. I elected for a Holly and was handed what was basically a leaf in a pot the size of a teacup.
It is undoubtedly true that you will get a 'better' tree the smaller it is when it is placed in its final location, but this Holly did virtually bugger all for a decade, being barely a foot high by 2010. 80% of its current volume has arrived in the last two years.
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