Untoothsomeness

[desperance]

If there's one thing I resent more than the collapse of National Health dentistry and the consequent expense of dental work, it's expensive dental work that doesn't, you know, work...

Or in other words I must go back to the dentist this afternoon. My delivery has two hours to arrive, or I will miss it, after waiting in all day for same. Snarl.

But! I have found a new place to put a small bookcase! A hitherto-unsuspected wall! And if you're sitting there thinking "this is his house, and he's lived in it a dozen years already; how can there be a hitherto-unsuspected wall?" then I hope I need only tell you that my dining-room has fifteen walls and seventeen corners, and you will understand that it's not really any great surprise to find a wall just where I needed one. (This is, be it admitted, an unusual house.)

Now I need one more such revelation, and we're laughing. Or smiling snidely, at any rate. I'm not sure I could rise to an actual laugh. We eke out our victories in scruples, in this house.

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I was really alarmed, in perusing various US-to-UK expat sites, that everyone seemed to say, "Go to the dentist before you leave the US! It's not covered over there & it's expensive!" :/ (this assumes, of course, the US soon-to-be expats have dental insurance here...)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. Dentistry has been broken from the start, in that it used to be available on the NHS but we still had to pay a significant proportion of the cost; in recent years, since the govt introduced a new contract, dentists have been in revolt and leaving the NHS in droves. In order to keep seeing the guy who's been taking good care of my teeth for a long time now, I had to take out insurance, and that doesn't cover lab costs. So I feel like I'm paying quite a lot of money now, and I don't like it; aren't we supposed to have socialised medicine, damn it...?

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

(This is, be it admitted, an unusual house.)

Non-euclidian geometry?

Mind you, you already have a pair of soggoths.

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

But! I have found a new place to put a small bookcase! A hitherto-unsuspected wall!

My first house was a bit like that. Sometimes I dream about it and I'm usually finding hitherto-unsuspected rooms, cellars, outbuildings....

Actually, I could do with a house like that again. I wouldn't have had to get rid of so many books.

[rhionnach.livejournal.com]

Sounds like an a-maze-ing dining room. :-)

[gauroth.livejournal.com]

You see, the reason I love your lj so much is that you use words like 'scruples' and 'strewn.'

Also: bookcases! There is never enough wallspace for bookcases in a modern house. People seem to prefer central heating radiators. Can't understand it, meself.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. This is exactly my problem. Mine is not a modern house, but people put in radiators, back when they were single-panels and a long room required a long radiator. I have whole walls lost to radiators, where I cannot put a book. These days you can get sexy vertical versions, that can be slotted into inconvenient spaces; if I could afford it, I would remake the house's heating entirely. As I can't...