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DawnW

Feel for you with the tooth Foxgloves - I had a similar problem, and the dentist finally took it out the day before yesterday. Turns out there was a huge abscess under it (excuse TMI). I haven't / am not bothered about an implant or anything, as it is a back tooth which isn't visible in the normal run of things. The odd thing was, from the pain, which was controllable with pain killers, and came and went, it wasn't possible for me to tell which tooth it was, if that makes sense, as it could seem to cause pain in any tooth, top or bottom. I have some residual soreness here and there, but am hoping this will settle down over the next few days, otherwise it will be back to the dentist for further investigation to hopefully head off possibly losing another tooth.

Alchemilla

@foxgloves and @DawnW I hope your respective fangs settle down.

So cute about the cardboard box jumping, our puppers are just the same about cardboard boxes (though they destroy them as well as getting in them).

foxgloves

@DawnW - I'm so annoyed & disappointed that the tooth has kicked off again. I know the end game will be an extraction, but the dentist said it was ok to wait until it absolutely had to come out, if that's what I preferred, & I opted for that because the pain levels had receded so significantly. I know what you mean about difficulty identifying from exactly where the pain originates. I have referred pain, when it is bad, into my jaw & up towards my ear, but the X-ray didn't show any infection, so we are going with it being because the nerve is on its way out. I hope yours settles down post-extraction, I will need an implant when I finally do have mine pulled out, as I lost the one next to it several years ago to a similar problem. Ah well, at least we have an emergency fund as my very quick scan of the likely cost was eye-watering.

@Alchemilla - Thanks, so do I!!
F x

foxgloves

Greetings Saturday People,
Started the day with the Big Garden Birdwatch....which naturally meant that any interesting featheries stayed away. We did count all the usual suspects though.
Useful session in the garden this morning. Mr F emptied out one of our big compost bins & barrowed it all to the vegetable garden so I can start using it for various jobs. He also turned the compost in all the other bins, prepped the newly empty one by making a twiggy layer at the base & cut back the blackberry ready for Spring. I de-gunked the pond of leaves & dead duckweed & thinned out the curly pondweed, as it was morphing into a sort of water-triffid. Followed this with a good tidy-up, clearing all sorts of gardening detritus off the raised beds, potting up large self-sown foxgloves for replanting in the borders next week & also made good inroads into sorting out the strawberry bed. 
For the last 2 or 3 years, our strawberries have been growing in a raised bed which we re-purposed from an unwanted wooden under-bed storage box. Mr F punched out the base & additional strawberry plants were grown in long plastic troughs around the edges. The wooden box is falling to pieces now, so I am taking the opportunity to move our strawberry growing operations to the other side of the veggie garden. i intend to use 4 long troughs set into a square, with a taller container in the centre. I can accommodate 60 plants with this set-up. The runners have done very well & due to the v mild winter so far, I haven't lost any plants, so I actually have too many. I'm going to pot up 2 dozen for my sister as she's lost all hers & jumped at the chance of some free ones & see what I have left. 
I could really do with a greenhouse session to get everything sorted ready for seed sowing. With my big warm poncho/jumper thingy & a hot coffee in my travel beaker, I shall be perfectly happy out there doing that.
Well, it's not my cooking night. Mr F is making chilli & jacket wedges so I have only a survey to do when today's link arrives in my inbox, then I shall toast my toes & read my book. Ash is still very jumpy if faced with sudden moves, but is turning into a proper snugglebottom & will doubtless come & join me on his newly discovered best thing.....the sofa!
Stay cosy - the wind is rattling down the chimney & we are not even in the trajectory of the Danish storm.
Love F xx 

amber03

Years ago I had continual toothache with a certain tooth. In the end the dentist took it out only to find an abscess underneath. Never bothered with a fake tooth, just got a space where it was. Was relieved in the end to have it taken out. Toothache is the worst pain, hope yours is sorted out soon. Doing birdwatch tomorrow. Been to the pet shop twice now for the bird seed I use, first time sold out and today closed early, third time lucky hopefully tomorrow. I had an allotment until last year when I had to give it up. Only thing I miss is the rhubarb , am thinking of putting a plant somewhere in the garden only bad thing about this, is that I will have to wait till next year for its first crop.x

foxgloves

Thanks @amber03 - I wish I could say that the evil tooth has continued to improve, but it has gone back to being very painful. I actually managed the grand total of about 20 mins sleep last night - the wretched tooth throbbed through two lots of painkillers, clove oil, benzocaine gel & my own determination to try & put mind over matter. I will be surprised if I am still in possession of this tooth by this time next week.

Re a pot-grown rhubarb - the year will soon pass & you'll be eating crumble & custard.
F

foxgloves

Hello Frugal diary friends,
Well, despite the worst night of sleep for years, I was up at the usual time to get a few jobs done (& cats firmly shut into my home office upstairs) before the workmen arrived. Not a no-spend day, as I have paid for some hedge & tree work, & still another bill next week, as I asked for a quote on removing a problem tree which is in poor condition & unstable, & am going ahead with this job too. While chainsaws have been buzzing outside, I've done two loads of laundry & my regular post-weekend budget updates. It seemed to take ages to get the budget straight - lots of little bits & pieces to pay from the correct pots, you know how it is......fiddly, but I can't see the point in having a system if I don't stick to it.
Trying a new slow cooker recipe today - it's called 'Big batch bolognese'  - in fact, it was such a big batch-cook that I knew it wouldn't fit in our slow cooker, so I've halved the recipe & it should still feed us tonight & supply 4 portions for the freezer. Much like the traditional bolognese we learned to cook at school, it contains bacon & mushrooms, which I think adds a depth to the flavour. It's starting to smell very tempting - time will soon tell if it's good to eat!
I finished my lacy lime green socks last night & am now seeing how many pairs of socks I can knit for Mr F using only yarn from my stash. He very much liked this idea, especially that the finished socks will be a mixture of funky self-patterning stripes. And free, as I really do need to be using up yarn I already have, not buying new.
That's my lot for today, take care,
F x

twiggy86

Hey @foxgloves! It's so funny - I'm a serial lurker but you mention yarn and out I pop!!! This year I'm doing similar in that I'm making amigrumi animals from stash for presents for all the kids I would normally buy for! It's all going well at the moment but I think I'm going to be creative with the colours later in the year! Anyway, I'm off back to lurkdome until you next mention yarn!

Baileys_Babe

@twiggy86 my children would be happy to receive these as a present, the children you are making for are very likey.

Deni_debt-free_dreamer

hi foxgloves
Sorry to hear you are in pain and not sleeping.
I had a foxgloves moment today!  I bought some bath bombs from the zero waste shop as a present and wanted a container to put them in; i was heading towards qual- save when i thought i have plenty of containers at home and don't need to buy any - so i have shopped from home and have a choice of 2 receptacles to use and feel very smug
love Deni