Monday 8 Sept 2014

I was woken up by the sun shining through the chinks in the curtains this morning. Arising from my bed I walked slowly to the window to look out and to my surprise felt the radiator was hot. As the thermostat is set at 15 degrees (we don’t turn it off in Summer, we simply lower the temperature) I realised that the summer is at an end.

Last week while eating a meal I chipped a tooth, one of the big ones at the back, so made an appointment with my dentist and that was for today. I aren’t that bad with dentists, not like some people seem to be, but nonetheless It’s not a treat to look forward to is it?
After a poke around he said that he could simply refill the missing bit but when I looked at him quizzically he said that things have moved on in dentistry. Modern fillers were so tough and strong now that there was no need to cap the tooth, it would repair. Well he’s the expert isn’t he so I acquiesced and in no time at all it was fixed. He was sure it would be fine and would not break at that point again. It seams dentistry is like mobile/cell phones; two or three years and things have move on by miles.

Because of the dentist I wasn’t available to collect 4 year old Anna from school so Penny had to do the run. When I got home I had the house to myself. I set up the lathe again and had another go at wood turning, it’s quite simple if you take your time and don’t push to hard. I made a test piece and turned the other end to be a transition fit when stuck it in the parasol hole of the table. I will have to buy a book on what can be produced on a wood lathe. The request for a set of Russian dolls was politely turned down. I think they are called ‘Matryoshka’ but it doesn’t make them any easier to make; perhaps I will try next year;er hum.

First Testpiece

When Anna arrived with Penny I cleared away and then entertained her with my helicopter skills. I had one bought for my birthday. It’s only a few inches high and with only enough battery power to fly for 4 minutes bit fly it does. They are not expensive to buy either, 15 GBPounds will get you one. I am a little better each time I try and can now fly it to the far end of the room and half way back before crashing to the floor. I recommend giving it go, great fun except when you crash into your granddaughter’s leg and she cries because although there are no marks to be seen it does sting a little. That’s when I put it away to be honest, the snitch told Penny and she told me off. The Wright brothers nearly killed themselves and Otto Lilienthal did but they didn’t complain. Well Otto couldn’t but you see what I mean.

Later on we set off to collect Rose from school and then took them to their own home to await the arrival of a parent two hours later (The things you have to do, tsk tsk.). I sat in the sunny back garden and read some more ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. It starts well but seem now to be flagging and I haven’t reached the sexy bits yet. I need to read them in order to write them in my stories. Make of that what you will. Recently I have been trying to write the killer opening sentence but not making much progress. No ‘It was the best of times and it was the worst of times’. Nor ‘Call me Ishmael’ nor ‘It is a truth universally accepted etc.
Mine tend to come out as a paragraph. They are good sometimes but they are not a sentence. Ah well, keep trying and you will improve I hope.

Well, that was more or less my day. I’m hoping for a rest tomorrow.