Remind me, Crem, what op?
MrsS - orthodontics is covered on the NHS if the problem is bad enough. I'm not sure how that decision is made, or how they deal with people half way through a treatment, but I think you need a dentist to refer you if you want to be covered on the NHS. Both my DDs have embarked on the orthodontic pathway; DD2 has dreadful tombstone teeth, mainly because her baby teeth came out very early and everything shifted about, so I'm hoping when brace-time arrives she'll be covered.
Fun and games here; the builder turned up this morning to put lintels in above a few of our windows, and managed to upset the wasp's nest under the wood cladding at the back of the house. He refused to do any further work until we dealt with it, so DM and I spent a happy half-hour this afternoon dressed in several layers of clothing and gardening gloves, dancing around the garden squirting chemicals in the general direction of the nest and running away screaming. No stings; in fact the wasps looked pretty bored by the whole thing, and it remains to be seen if we actually killed anything.