Of teeth and telephones

Happy New Year to you all,

It's been a funny old start to 2014 even beyond the usual madness of January and the tax return season... which I'll come on to later.

Let's start with dentists... yes, dentists.

It has to be said that I didn't know I had any dental issues and I'm still not 100% sure that I have.  The Hygienist was very sceptical as she went through a long list of potential symptoms that I think I should have been experiencing:

•    'Pain in your gums?'  No

•    'Sensitivity to cold?'  No

•    'Sensitivity to warmth?'  Nope

•    'Pangs?'  Was that 'pangs?  'Yes'.  No

•    'Bleeding?'  No

•    'Does this hurt?'  Along came a jab with a sharp implement.  Not really

•    'Ah!  Numbness!'

Anyway, apparently I was suffering from pockets for which the cure was three visits to the Hygienist to have these pockets scraped of bad stuff so that good stuff could grow in its place... at least that's how it was explained to me.

I don't have a dentist-phobia so actually the sessions apart from the occasional scrape weren't too bad and were actually quiet relaxing - half an hour laying on my back with not much to think about!

But the point I was getting to was an argument the Hygienist had with her assistant.

When I first lay down in the chair I thought the surgery was pretty hot, but of course, I didn't say anything.  A few minutes after she started the Hygienist said to her assistant: 'We're going to have to turn down the heating... It's stifling in here.'

Hear, hear thinks I.

But she got an argument.

'But I'm cold!'

'Well, you can leave the room.'

At which point I managed to mumble with (with two pairs of hands wedged firmly in me mouth) 'You can borrow my number if you like.'

I could have been scarcely intelligible but I was completely understood and I was faced with a somewhat tight lipped smile and a 'no thanks!'

Five minutes later the heating was turned back up!

Now, it has to be said our new office is fairly cold on account of the whacking great hole in the window that was put there by a delinquent just before Christmas.  On our snagging list one of the team decided to write 'It's freezing cold!'

To me that's not snagging and so my response was - put a jumper on!

About the move to the new office - thanks for asking - for the most part it's gone really smoothly and even IT was pretty good.  In fact, our IT guys (sortmypc.co.uk) are absolute geniuses.

They had to do a bit of fancy jiggery pokery with routers and telephones. 

At one point he telephone rang and Angus (sortmypc.co.uk) shouted across the office 'I take it because the 'phones are ringing they're working?'

See what I mean.  A real IT guru!

Welcome to 2014!