Frizz

I woke up to feel two of my back teeth meeting for the first time in three weeks. I thought I’d broken a bracket at first, but no it seems that while I slept my bite rather drastically changed. No pain doesn’t have to mean no gain.

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Little R (three and three quarters) invited me for a sleepover, apparently he had been inviting various friends for sleepovers all weekend - only their combined ages appear to be less than half mine - should I take something from this?

Argh! He made the bite turbos bigger (Quote; “I’ve never had to do this before”)…. so much for losing the lisp. Now I’m really afraid to open my mouth. Good news though, I think I’m no longer hitting the braces, you’d think. As a consolation I’ve just splashed out on some business card making software… I realised with all my meetings the other week it was a bit silly not having a card. My card can speak for me - so cheesy.

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I have a friend, hi V, who says she has been skiing a total of 35 days this year – which makes me wonder what I’m doing wrong?

I went on a school ski trip, which the V in question might well remember… I spent much of the time being sick and the rest being petrified, with a tiny bit of time being thrilled and somehow I’ve not been skiing since.

I’m now obsessed with planning regulations… as brother number two is shortly to find out.

I went to a lovely Passover Seder, a Bulgarian version - thank you L and I’m going on an Easter hunt and I just want to get all soppy and say how wonderful it is to live in a country where despite the awful planning laws (I couldn’t resist) and the threat to our civil rights - it’s still possible to partake in whatever festivals you feel like. And in that spirit go and join the dancing [via].

Well, no reprieve from the lisp as the Ortho was away all last week, I’m there on Tuesday. I’m actually getting used to the bite turbos, but they are still too high, the only time they are useful is at night when I put wax underneath them to help prevent me from accidentally biting a bracket off in my sleep, although the fear of doing exactly that is not conducive to a good nights sleep and as a result I’m kinda tired. The braces themselves haven’t been hurting at all, and working on the no pain, no gain theory, I’m wondering if anything is going on in there.

PS. the baby food, with a bit of seasoning, was actually OK. My new favorite meal is backed potato with mashed up avocado and yogurt – honestly it tastes good and no chewing needed.

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I’m feeling rather disenchanted with the world. Our neighbours had already put in an appeal – knowing something we didn’t? A touch of what it must be like to live in a tin pot state. The way the planning process works is that the applicant, otherwise known as the developer, even if they loose have a right to appeal to the Secretary of State, the opposing side on the other hand has no right to appeal – so it’s a stacked pack of cards and I thought I lived in the civilized world – silly me, yet again. Not only that, but there is no end to the madness as they can keep putting in applications and appealing until the cows come home. Me think’s the law was devised by a rather shrewd developer, but if someone would like to tell me otherwise I’m willing to listen.

We won round two - the councilors again voted against our neighbor’s application. They were simply brilliant bringing up all the main issues. Silly me as we were walking out I made eye contact with the losing side and got a bit of a threat… you live and learn or maybe not that makes the estate agent and the architect now. You know all those ‘developer’ TV programmes have really lost all their innocence.

Adrienne Rich at the South Bank - 7 July.

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