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Crem, sorry you are still suffering. I am too, but in a minor way. It was my first "deep cleaning" treatment at the dental hospital: I gave up counting after we got to nine injections! Now I am just sore, but I have to face the whole thing again tomorrow.

DH had a wonderful book called something like "Treat your Own Back" which he bought from Amazon - he found the exercises really helpful.

It's pretty miserable here today and I am hoping and praying it will improve as we have our four visitors arriving tomorrow afternoon.

MI, good look with all the relatives - I hope you've found somewhere nice to eat in Skipton.

NU, 9 injections It's very miserable here too.

MI, have fun

Herbs, I'm sure you have a few Sainsbo's numbers up your sleeve

It's feckin winter here in Norf London. Am wearing socks, jumper and scarf (plus some trousers you'll be relieved to hear). Tempted to put the heating on.

Off out this pm to local Indian restaurant for ds2's birthday dinner (birthday was yesterday) which is his favourite. 15! (XV!, fifteen!).

Crem, pleased to hear you're not currently in complete agony. Hope things improve for you.
Start as you mean to go on MI. As someone else said go with the flow - the success or otherwise of the grand tour / birthday celebrations isn't your responsibility.

Likewise here QQ - weather rubbish yet garden growing wild with my inability to hoik weeds and cut hedges( the very idea makes me feel vomitus )
I have taken my first mega dose prescribed yesterday. Taken at 2.30z
Zonked at 2.45 have just woken up.
But am nearly pain free < she says tentatively>
The question is can I be both pain free and awake at the same time.

Herbs sounds like an interesting afternoon good luck with the packing. Sounds like you may need a raincoat.

I had a strange and slightly disturbing hallucinatory dream about a Sainsbury's car park and not being able the find the exit.

MI - hope you are holding up

On our way home. Rained on again today but not as cold as you lot are, I don't think!

Rosebag, I'm very familiar with the Black Rabbit. Lovely pub do you have a dog? We could do a walk?

Very very quiet tired children here! Expecting snoring on the plane....

Oh and NU your poor face. 9+ injections( nineIX) is horrific.

Thanks so much for all the suggestions re sciatica. You are all so thoughtful and helpful.

OMG 9 injections at the dentist - what happened?

Rudy - "4 wheels good; two wheels bad"

Yes a miserably bloody day, but I've planted up all the pots and baskets in the garden and have decided it was pretty good weather to do it in.

DD has three friends here for a sleepover. I am cooking them roast chicken with all the trimmings, followed by Banoffee Pie. As soon as I have cleared up after dinner I am disappearing upstairs to calm and the next episode of Corrie. I have just barked at them to pour me wine before I dish up and am wondering if I can bear eating with them or if I should just retreat with a tray. They are play reading at the moment - dd and her chums are quite quirky -not exactly "street" or "cool" . No, they are now heavily criticising J K Rowling in American accents.

hello all,
may i have some ladyjogging advice please? i'd like to try ljing into work which is about 3.5 miles away - but I'd need to carry sundries in a rucksack - clothes, towel, shoes etc, I guess. anyone done that? is it tricky? does it slow you down alot? i've never run that far before but i've done at least half that and i've also walked the route a few times so won't mind if i jog and walk?

glad you're not in pain, crem,

am hoping MI is having LOTS of fun

OMG! DD has just about filled our green wheelie bin with all her junk This is only about a third of the crap in her room, but it has made quite a difference!

Amazing what the promise of a new bed and a mini-makeover of the room can do

Windy, I have gum disease (ie bleeding gums) and eventually my dentist decided to refer me to the dental hospital. I must say that the young woman who is looking after me is great; obviously not just a first year student! Anyway, it was 4 injections at the top on the outside, four on the top on the inside and then, I think, another 4 at the bottom on the outside. As I said I gave up counting at 9. The whole thing has to be repeated on the left hand side of my mouth tomorrow (they kindly allow you to have one side of your mouth untouched so you can eat ). This is all in the hope that it will stop my gums receding (I bet you never thought about that when you thought about getting old, did you fellow Crepeys?)

It's still raining, but now I have eaten I have just asked DH to switch off the central heating - will I regret this decision?

That'll be the Sainsbo's at Putney then. Steep ramp, very sharp turn with strategically placed bollards and spaces 2'' smaller than any car known to man

Nah, mine are crap NUFC. I had rank gingivitis when I was pregnant. Have found a brilliant dentist though who is kind and luffly and disgracefully young. Over the years I have spent a fortune on having little fake fillings twixt tooth and gum, having invasive oral hygiene stuff done for £1000 . I had toothache about 8 months ago, went to a dentist my bf recommended (she's stinking rich but very mean) and they took me on as an NHS patient. They have said that the disease is moderate; not rank like previous private dentists have said, shown me the Xrays and explained and compared to the various stages.

They have a wonderful hygienist who does it all by hand for me because the electric things freak me out. Have seen her four times now. Went today and they said it was looking fab.

The interesting thing, and apparently there is research to back this up, it does get better when you are post menopausal because the hormones cause the blood vessels to surge. I spent a life time spitting blood and have only just been told that teepees are better than floss.

Lovely hygienist, teepees, corsodyl, soft brush, corsodyl mouth wash and a luffly dentist who has stopped me being scared.

Good luck tomorrow and I'm sorry that was probably boakworthy in a tmi sort of way.

Beachy I've lived in London for 34 years. I can park on a postage stamp! Putney is easy and I have an mpv - OK not a glamorous MPV and it's smaller than BTM's but it doesn't exactly turn on a sixpence.

Windy*, we're very fortunate up here as it is no problem to get an NHS dentist (although I do have to travel to Newcastle) and the Dental Hospital is a great asset to have access to. I am the oldest Crepey (66) and I stopped my periods when I was 57/58, so I don't think there is any hope now that things will get better.

I know what you mean about the tepees (and why did no-one ever tell me years ago that you should brush the inside of your teeth as well?). The hospital dentist has now recommended that I stop the corsydol and go on to Sensedyne. It's really good when you find somebody who knows what they are doing.

Blimey, NUF, what on earth are they doing to you at the Dental Hospital? I had gruesome bleeding gums for several years before I finally managed to get my (entirely crap) dentist to finally refer me to an oral hygienist. There was a lot of unpleasant digging and scraping, which was repeated every six months for a couple of years and now I'm down to minor fiddling and polishing every six months. I also wear a heavy-duty dental night guard, as some of the bleeding was down to the fearsome teeth-clenching and grinding I do during sleep. It's all a lot better now, although I will probably have to wear a night guard for the rest of forever. I was told that Corsodyl was mucho bad and I shouldn't use it and in fact mouthwashes in general are something to avoid if possible. Truly, tracking down a decent dentist these days, whether NHS or private, is quite difficult, I have found. Aside from my grinding etc, I have decent teeth, but dh's teeth are the stuff of nightmares and have frequently caused monstrous dents in the family finances. Once he had to sell a Fender bass to finance a £1000 treatment (we are not hugely well-off) and is still bitter - particularly as the bloke he sold it to sold it 3 years later for £1000 more. :)

What the heck are teepees ladies? Am I being thick?
I have stuck with my private dentist as I like him, even though he is richer than G-d.

Ahhh, Putney, Putney. One of the many places I managed to fail my driving test. I may have sold some of you wine, back in the day when I was working in a biiiiig wine merchants in Wandsworth. Lived in Wandsworth and then Roehampton in the late 80s/ early 90s and my bestie lived on Putney Bridge Road. We were frequently to be found behaving in a very disreputable manner in various venues around Putney.

Aren't teepees those little bottle-brush thingies that you stick between your teeth? Come in various colours depending on thickness. I was told to get some, but couldn't get on with them and stuck with flossing religiously every night instead. Dh used them for a while, but now swears by his Waterpik - and it does indeed seem to do the trick.

Beachy no dog, which puts us in a minority in these parts!! But a meet up/walk must surely be possible. This week may be a bit tight but we get down here regularly. Hope you have a safe journey home. Had a lovely day in Arundel, not too cold although overcast and drizzly. Been quite piggyish with not only delicious lunch at The Black Rabbit with DH and DD, but after more walking and a mooch around the shops, tea at my current favourite tearoom, Belinda's. Do you know that too, beachy? The fresh air certainly did lift my mood although I'm just watching channel 4 news and it's all so depressing. The Rolf Harris case...that poor girl stoned to death and other terrible news. Awful.
crem pleased to hear that pain relief is happening. These days they say it's important to keep mobile, don't they. It's hard to imagine being able to do that when in such pain, though.
Wonder how mother is getting on.

Ah interdental brushes! Gotcha !!
Yes they're very handy and I do use them. I see the dental hyg lady twice a year. She is very scary and scolds me a lot about my penchant for triple espressos and fizzy water.

This half-term so far I have been mainly flicking the Vs in the general direction of health and fitness. I decided that my fitness regime has become a bit too joyless and I am no longer convinced that circuit training is super hugely good for me. It makes my rosacea worse (I can virtually hear the thread veins popping during press-ups) and I fear that loads of fierce upper body exercise has caused my boobs to shrink even more. I seem to need smaller bras. And some bits of me look more shriveled than is strictly necessary, I feel. However, there is still a fine ring of blubber around my midriff that needs careful camouflage or surgery. Damn and blast.

So this week, I have decided to have a week off circuits and to drink Cava most nights. My considered opinion is that the fact that Prosecco is the flavour of the moment means that there is a lot of terrible old shite being sold in Prosecco bottles for far too much money at the moment and you can get a far better bargain and less of a headache when you buy Cava (which had its fashion moment well over a decade ago and is consequently having to fight its corner a little at the moment). That said, if I could find a decent local purveyor of Cremant de Bourgogne at a reasonable price, that would be my fizz of preference. Just sayin', fizz afficionados.

(you can tell by the complete lack of reference to anyone else's posts that I am on my 4th glass of Cava )

Cheers Stropps!

Stropps, I completely agree about prosecco v cava - and prosecco has shot up in price, while cava has not. And, my DH has been working in S of F recently and found a v nice place from which to bring back CdeB which again I agree is absolutely the C's W's. am africionading w/ you