its over

I think now my run of pain and suffering is done with, I can eat drink and be merry,
my stitches in the mouth have been removed the crown on the tooth is fixed and another cracked filling done all for the same price.
I left work at 2.30 pm and went home cleaned the teeth and went to THE DENTIST I just want them damn stiches out they were irritating me to hell.
enter Dentist Surgery,
Me,,,,hello love you got over pulling that bloody tooth yet.

Dentist,,,No, it was a bad one have you been ok?

Me,,,yeah(liar) just fine and dandy, can't wait to have these stiches out bloody irritating things.

Dentist,, (looking in mouth) oh yes it looks nice and pink,lets get those stiches out, right she says I will just fix that crown that was damaged.

Me,,, ermmmmmmm this isn't going to cost any more is it.

Dentist,,, oh no its all been paid for.

A few minutes later the crown was as good as new.

Dentist,, now she says I want to fix that broken filling, can you do this without injection.

Me,, yeah sure as long as its not too deep get on with it.

Drill ,,,,,drill ,,,,,,,,,,, drill,,,,,,,,,,,, scrape,,,,,,,,, bit more drilling ,,,, you have a very good pain threshhold she says,,

Me,,,, yes I think I must have.

Minutes later I have fixed crown,, fixed filling,,, and cleaned teeth,,, and my mouth feels almost normal, we chat about filling the gap caused by the removal of the molar and I soon think its the cost of a small new car,,, so I say ok love , I will see you in 6 months.

All is well my smile is back to normal although she wouldn't put the diamond in the crown like I suggested saying something about national health service won't pay for it, but at least I tried.

HAVING

had time to recover over the weekend, and thinking life almost normal,(if it was normal it wouldn't be me and I would be thinking where and who am I).I went to work monday as normal and did a normal day of graft.

Coming home I thought we will have something nice for tea and a few beers, but that wasn't going to be was it.

My stomache felt strangly,, ,, not right, I felt sick, I put it down to being hungry so I grabbed a quick snack.

Well that didn't make it better but I just thought come on Steve snap out of it .

So we had our evening meal, I felt worse, and by 8.00pm I put my self in bed.

I struggled to get to sleep and started to have bad cramps in my stomache and abdomen and knew I was going to be sick, and by 9.30 I was,,,,,, a lot,,,"D" brought me some water and took away bucket full of vomit,,,,,,, nice this init.

Couldn't sleep all night I knew at this point it was food poisening, but what? in truth I didn't care.

Having not slept all night and being doubled up in pain I phoned in sick.

I spent Tuesday, feeling very sorry for myself and not moving a lot.

This morning I got up as normal 4.30am and thought should I go in, I still had cramps and really not too good so I thought no If I go in they "will" expect me to be as normal and walk miles and lift heavy stuff I wanted cigarettes so I went to the shop in the car of course and the short walk of some 20 yards convinced me I had done the right thing. At work I calculate I walk about 10 miles everyday.

So today I will watch movies and play on the laptop so I don't have to move much.

Not to worry in a week I will be going away on holiday YAAAAAAAAAY.

Some weeks,

are just not the same.
Take this week, there I was as busy as ever at work, thinking not long till the old holiday.
Till Thursday,,,, well I thought good an early one,
you see I had to be at the Dentists for 3.00pm,
so I left work early.
In my head I would be at home by 3.15 latest after a quick look at the old gnashers and brush up and then wait another 6 months.
How wrong could I have been.

Dentist,,, (lovely woman)had any trouble since I saw you last

Me,,,,,,,, none really just a but sensative around here pointed to tooth.

Dentist,,, lets look.

Dentist,,,, ohhhhhhhhhhhh,, you have a big hole in that tooth and it is above the gum line it will have to come out.

Me,,,,,, Ok yank it out, but which arm or leg would you like for me to pay for it.

Dentist,,, need to xray it first,,,,

Great bloody thing in mouth,,,,,,,,,,,,,, she and assistant run out of room like I had just farted.
then came back in to check resulting xray,,,, after much embarrasment apologises and puts film in this time, same again both run out of room Like I am a lepor.

There she says,, look at this, points to hole in my tooth on moniter,,,, it will "have" to come out.

Me,,, ok you have time now lets do it.

So after many injections and me slavering down my shirt and not knowing it I was ready.

Dentist ,,, can you feel this.

Me,, no thats just fine yank it out.

all the tools were laid by my side on the little tray (I thought they don't look big enough).

puts small lever in to the gum and trys to loosen tooth,,,,,, next forceps (she would have been better off with a tyre lever and mole grips).

She pulls and twists at the tooth no movement,,,,,,,she then gets bigger forceps and bigger levers,
nope this little bugger is in here for good, we breed em big and strong in Yorkshire I quiped, slaver still running dowm my chin.

Even bigger forceps called for ,,, tug ,,,, twist,,,,, crack,,,, oh I have just chiped your crown.

No,,,,,,,, not the tooth I wanted out, but the one on the tooth next to it the one I paid £60 bloody Quid for 10 years ago

More tugging,, pulling this time with assitant holding my head "CRACK",,,, Oh she said the crown has broke off.

I felt like the size of a small pebble as she fumbled in my mouth to retrieve it.
next came the drill I will have to drill now ,,,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,,,,,,,zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz,,zzzzzzzzzz,
a bit more prodding and pulling.
Dentist,,I will have to cut your gum to get to the roots

Me,,, ok just do it(by this time I was losing the will to live)

anyway after much pulling and prodding I felt one by one the roots come out.
There was a pile of tools on the bib on my chest a mechanic would have been proud of and it was Dentist 1 tooth 0.

Dentist,,,, do you smoke or drink

Me,,, do Bears shit in the woods.

Dentist,,,,,well you can't do either, I am giving you this prescrpition take all these tablets you must do all this stuff hands me a list.

Dentist ,,, you have just had a surgical extraction and its very important.

I looked at the list of tablets and thought bloody hell they are at least £6 each

Anyway I have now got a hole in my gum the size of a small country and stiches in the gum to boot and a damaged crown and I have to go back next week.

I was a full hour in that chair and my thoughts of a blissfull afternoon had gone.,,,,TBC.

Once again

I have been really busy at work and I have to say, what a week that was, but I won't bore you with all the details of steel work.
So Monday,,,,,,,,,, worked right hard

Tuesday ,,,,,,,,, worked right hard

Wednesday went to the hospital at Selly Oak got fitted with the Heart moniter
went back to work ,,,,, worked

Thursday,,,,,,, went to work
went back to Selly Oak to have it took off after 24 hours

Had Echocardiograph scan,,,,, lovely woman did it very thorough,, said to me if I were you I wouldn't worry about anything.


I heard my heart sloshing around as she checked all the valves.
are you sure you are not an Ox she quiped?
so after that I am a lot happier.

So this weekend has not been much different from any other. Apart from we "had" to shape up the garden that has been neglected for a month.

Saturday went to work got back early and had me hair cut
promptly fell asleep while "D" booked a holiday on the internet, so the good news is,,,, we are going to Rhodes "Greece" for a week, starting 2 weeks on Wednesday and we will be back on the 5th September.

I have never been there and am looking forward to it a good weeks rest, and to spend some quality time with "D".

Today I made a meal apart from the meat, with all the ingrediants we have grown in the garden.

soup ,,, fresh Tomatoes carrots parsnip and onions, delicious
main course,,,, pork (killed by someone else) roast spuds carrots and parsnip, gravy.
pudding,, apple pie ,,,, what else we have loads of the buggers.

So now we have tidied the garden and it is at this point I am going to throw down the Gauntlet.

We have this year grown some very big sunflowers, not big by some standards but big for us in a small garden.

I am going to put up a £10 prize for the grower of the biggest sunflower but,,,, grown from my seeds from Buster and Lauren that is what we called them.

It has to be the tallest and widest flower to be the winner, to give you an idea buster was 8 feet 6 inches high and his flower and only the seeds not the petals measured 8,1/2"( inches)
Lauren was higher by 6"(inches) but the same flower size.

Send me your address to my gmail address I will post the seeds.
So it will be good luck next year if you want to win a Tenner.

Buster is on the left
Lauren is on the right



say which ones you want









our greenhouse door("D"s) work








my work,
apple and red cherry pie.




so if you want the challenge go for it.

My apologies for absence (part 2)

Once more I have been absent, but not without good reason,

1, I have been knackered doing 11 plus hour days at work getting the jobs out. All the work is nearly done all the work is nearly done on the extention and fitting of the new equipment and in a few days we will be live doing shotblasting and painting.

2. I needed the money.

3.Finaly after years of procrasternation, I have proposed to "D" here is the ring(what a relief she said yes) we are to be married next year, after almost 7 years together, the first 2 I spent traveling between Yorkshire and Birmingham, clocking up about 30,000 miles in travel.

We went out, on the Sunday night I proposed, to one of our favorite chinese restaurants.
I bought Champagne(a full bottle) that was a first.Champagne is strong we were both hung over.






4. I have been Knackered.

so without further ado I am trying to get back into some sort of normality.


It has been a wet month in August but now into September it looks like it might be better for a bit, everything is going nice on the garden front, the caterpillars love our plants but some have pulled through.


By the way Mars is about as close as it can get to us at the moment this is what it looks like,
I am not impressed I wanted bigger, its just a red dot in the sky?




Today we went to the the Kings Heath garden show is was good I got these the mother of all garden croppers





yes I know I am odd but it all adds to the flavour













here are some pics of the wind swept and sodden garden

free sunflowers plated by the birds or squirrels


tomatoes by "D"






A GOURD?








Chilli anyone we have never grown these








we still have a passion









look at the size of those apples









clematis hanging on












and finaly I see this Heron most mornings I think he must stand 3 feet tall