Rain, rain go away! in The View from the Terrace

They say It never rains but it pours. Well it was raining pretty hard over the bank holiday weekend and I’m not just talking about the weather. Chris started work on the bathroom on the Friday evening. On Saturday Hubby announced that he had toothache. He said it had started the evening before but he had hoped it might get better. Oh dear, what a time to get toothache, at the beginning of a bank holiday weekend with our dentist closed until Tuesday. On Sunday morning his upper lip was very swollen and he was in a lot of pain. I checked our dentist’s website but they don’t have emergency cover for Health Service patients and the advice was to ring the NHS helpline which we did. At this point Chris arrived to start work on the bathroom but he ended up taking Hubby to an emergency dental clinic in town. I offered to drive him but they both felt the clinic might be closed before I got there as there was only 30 minutes to spare. Chris has a faster car and is a quicker driver. They got back about midday. Hubby apparently had a double abscess on 2 front teeth. They had given him antibiotics and told him to ring his dentist on Tuesday as nothing could be done until the swelling went down.

Poor Chris ended up working alone on the bathroom for most of the day as Hubby, full of antibiotics and pain killers had just collapsed in the armchair and fallen asleep. Chris had to dig out all of the crumbling mortar and repoint the brickwork. He decided to do the whole of the front wall, not just around the bath as the brickwork needs it. It still isn’t finished. Hubby helped a little on Monday and Tony has done some more these last 2 evenings. It looks as though we probably won’t have a shower for another 2 weeks. We do have a shower spray on the bath tap but you have to be very careful not to get the brickwork wet so I just use it for washing my hair in the bath.

Hubby saw the dentist on Tuesday and says she took out 2 roots from where he was missing teeth. I’m thought maybe he was confused as I didn’t think they ever took teeth out and left the roots but apparently it can happen. I also didn’t know he was missing 2 front teeth, I thought it was just one. How can you not know your husband has lost another front tooth? That just proves the communication problems between us. He never smiles though. He always has this serious expression unless he is acting the fool.

Tuesday was a lovely hot sunny day and, of course, I had a duty at the helpline! Never mind, I managed an hour in the garden before I went. It’s still pleasant sunny weather but rain is forecast for the weekend. I have this theory that maybe the power of thought can influence the weather. Everyone always expects that it will rain on bank holidays or at the weekend so it does!

Last updated February 14, 2019