Monthly Archive: January 2021

Transience, parenthood and deadly serious farting around

“The older you get the more important history becomes – to state the bleeding obvious” is a line from a movie I saw some while back. I think it was Michael Caine who delivered this line, lying in a bed with his white slightly corpulent arm around an actress of...

Post-apartheid dentistry

I mentioned in a previous post that Dr P my dentist is a Muslim woman. This is part of why I like going to her practice where she is one of a number of dentists, oral hygienists and I think there is a specialist maxillo-facial surgeon who practices there too.

Yea though I walk … vallis lacrimarum

I have encountered an increasing number of people who are enduring unimaginable tragedy as a result of COVID and other diseases this week. I am touched both by how frail and robust we humans are. These stories of loss and guilt were on my mind as I rode my bicycle...

Gnashing of teeth

I have very bad teeth. It’s a good thing I love my dentist. Dr P is a Muslim woman. I suppose she is in her late 30s . I first met her two years ago when in agony that I am sure is worse than childbirth, I googled emergency dentist...

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