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Er indoors just finished having nhs treatment of teeth out and temporary denture fitted then told dentist is going private, how much will follow up cost £800 plus.

No NHS service around here now.

Our much valued village optician has gone private too. If you want to stay with them you now have to subscribe to a monthly subscription. They say the money they received from the NHS came nowhere near covering the cost of all the expensive eye health monitoring equipment they,ve been installing recently to detect deteriorating eye conditions especially with the local population growing older.

Enjoy the last few hours of "Late summer" folks!

Hard to believe that autumn starts tomorrow - at least it does in my books - September/October/November! )

It,s been dank and drizzly here and I already have a thicker sweater on so my autumn started a few hours early!
No doubt the Halloween/Guy Fawkes and Christmas retailers will have their feet on the accelerator pedals from tomorrow.

Don't know what everybody else thinks but all this retail pressure just makes me want to keep my wallet more firmly closed ! I look in our cupboards and find we already have enough ""stuff" accumulated to keep a retail store going!

Just hoping for enough sunshine to ripen the rest of the outdoor tomatoes off. I swear they lose some of thst "sun ripened" deliciousness when you have to finish ripening them off indoors.

No dentist either private or NHS is available in my area, which is a pain literally as in the last couple of months I have lost 2 fillings & had a gum infection under a cap. The chemist prescribed antibiotics for that, brilliant they are an option but they are well busy. I was NHS but cancelled an appointment late as work was in a bit of a pickle & immediately removed from their list despite them being on the hospital site & fully aware of the chaos! I have heard a whisper that if you go in to the private ones you might get an appointment but their phone message is no vacancies.

Rained all day today, some really heavy for a few hours, still drizzling now but looks fine for the plot for the next week or so; & I won't have to water too much tomorrow as the amount of rain we have had will have seeped under the tunnel cover edges hopefully. More time to harvest more tomatoes then.....

After visiting specsavers for hearing aid I notice how cheap their classes so got a pair for £49.

I have found NHS Audiology very reliable and free!

I had to have a tooth removed by my nhs dentist she is new to the practice she’s not useless but next best thing to it the dentist that was is now working in a private dentist about 20 miles from me but nobody will reveal the practice any way this dentist managed to break my tooth off just above the gum line I had to go on the nhs waiting list to see a specialist after 6 weeks I started to phone round to find out which specialist I was going to see after half an hour I found him only to be told I wasn’t on the waiting list as yet as there were over a thousand urgent cases and the minute they reduce it by a 100 another 100 are added to it so I found a dentist to remove it two days before Christmas last year only cost me £400 to have one stub removed

Sod's law in action! I have pot sowed & planted out some Pak Choi twice & immediately they turned up their toes. Went for a direct sow & accidentally dropped the seed package! I swear every single one dropped is growing & doing really well, the sown ones before the clumsy event are no shows. Luckily I like Pak Choi & just waiting for the plot neighbours to get back from hols to share them out.

Fortunately I have an area now available to pop some more in that won't upset the rotation - got blight on the outside toms! Caught in time to save the ripe fruit! Gave the tunnel ones a blight resist water just to be sure no spores sneak in there as they are the big ones & quite a lot not ripe enough yet to take. Would have liked to shut the door that end but 35C in there today with vent open as well as the doors! The sweet potatoes would like it higher I think, they are not vining as much as usual, but hopefully they are using their energy underground!

"I have found NHS Audiology very reliable and free!"

Yes that where I went the first time before lockdown, it now seems the norm to be sent to specsavers which is done under NHS.

It's proving to be a bit of a dodgy late season for blight. Hoping the last of ours still on the plants will dodge it. Am sending Mr Primrose out to inspect them every day.
This afternoon is going to be spent oven drying a large batch of our tumbling red & yellow tomatoes with herbs to freeze for winter use. I've given up hope of any last minute Autumn heatwave to allow them to be dried the natural Mediterranean way.

Isn’t it nice to have a couple of new members posting and the return of a couple of existing ones too….

Nice quiet day mooching on the plot. Transplanted 20 odd of the biggest Pak Choi & had a load for the give away table but forgot, but they are potted on or in H2O so will be OK. Last weed of the Asparagus as it is just starting to yellow but I was very thorough as don't want to weed it again just top it up & leave it be for winter but I did give it all a scatter of seaweed feed. Not going to take any fresh seaweed this year as way to many let offs by the water companies into the rivers, & as we are fed by 2 rivers we will get a double dose!

Lottie missed all the pass overs of the planes from the air festival, but was rewarded this evening with the Hurricane, Chinook & some other very noisy silver one going right over the house. I did see the high bit of the Red Arrows from the back bedroom, with the smoke heart & 2 of the planes that went over the water to turn & re-join the display so pretty good result. Nice & quiet now but the night display will start soon so may see some more later. Funny how it turns you quite child like & in awe, not just me though as looking over the back gardens most of the neighbours were outside as well.

We used to go to he Airbourrne festival at Eastbourne every year and yes, one is in awe of the power of some of these aircraft. I always used to think, Yes we,re enjoying them now for pleasure but imagine how you'd feel if some of them were sweeping over you in a wartime situation.

Being old enough as a.small child to remember some of their predecessors going overhead in the night skies in a wartime situation they always conjure up some mixed emotions.

Meanwhile the sun is shining so another day for good tomato ripening and no heating needed so two positives !

Been busy over the allotments today, hoeing was the job and by the heck it needed it….

I've been on similar....
..having completed the raspberry tie in it was on to the loganberry which is now all cut out, new arranged on the wires and tied in.
This always my break out point by getting the middle of the garden sorted I've been hand weeding back through some nursery trees, from when I was having a go at tree grafting, and thence around the Loch Ness blackberry and Invicta gooseberies.
Good day for it... but sadly I know I've let some rubbish seed so its for ever going to be a fight...can't keep it like my mum and dad used to.!

C.