Living on a Narrowboat
Still in Kidlington, getting my teeth treated. Slowly.
Since my last post, there has been a lot of floods.
These have affected the Cherwell and the Thames. These are two rivers which sandwich me in my current position.
Although they are navigable now, a lot of the last month, they’ve been flooded pretty badly.
Life otherwise goes on.
Made a short video of the weir at Osney Locks on the Thames.
You can see the levels have gone up a bit.
Continue reading “Winter floods”Had a little walk down to Ironbridge today, New Years Eve close to my parents house.
Made a short video with the River getting going. It’s been higher that this in the past, but with more rain set to come, it remains to be seen how high it will climb this year.
Still here in Kidlington.
Had the first part of my tooth surgery done the other day which consisted of removing the root of the old tooth.
They had put a stem and cap. The stem had fractured the root and the cap fell out. They advised that the root was beyond repair and options included 1)bodge 2)removal.
I opted for 2)removal although it was more expensive.
‘Dental experts’ tell us chewing gum can aid in the dissolution of plaque. Chewing is healthy….
What they don’t tell us is that the chewing of gum for significant periods of time isn’t so good for caps, fillings and other artificial oral constructions made in place of your teeth.
Since I started doing this job full time. I’ve been chewing gum more routinely. Every day in fact. When I work, I (used to) get in the car and have some gum.
My fillings I’ve had since I was at secondary school. The cap I had done when I was at school also. 35 years ago.
All fine for 35 years. Had the cap stem re-cemented when it came out around 18 years ago, otherwise, all fine.
As soon as I chew gum every day. Filling comes out after 4 months. Stem snaps root after 11 months.
I’m not putting this down to chance.
Only one thing has changed in my oral habits and that’s chewing gum.
Dental work is very expensive
No coincidence the fact that a)you can’t get an NHS dentist nowadays b)dental work goes from expensive to eye watering.
I’ve had an idea! Chew more gum…
Not..
Continue reading “Christmas on the Canal”That’s the title I created (without the help of AI).
Due to my continued mooring in Kidlington, I’m hoping to publish a couple of youtube videos, to keep the content rolling.
Here’s one I made the other day.
As you can see.
I could have waited for the Kite, which would have made a better video, but I was a bit short for time, so I picked the little blighter up.
Having found that the supply of Tesamol has just about dried up. This year to insulate my single glaze windows, I’m trying out this alternative, Magzo.
It’s an insulation film that’s easy to fit. I’ve made a video about it.
This is just one of my winter jobs to be done.
I’ll add the others to this blog as I go along.
