A Monday

Monday 22nd March, 2021

I had a hurried breakfast as I had a dental appointment at 10am. I arrived at 9.58am. After 15 minutes I inquired if I had been forgotten! I was told another 15 minutes as a difficult operation was going on. So I went for a walk about the block via the Community Centre. It was windy and cold if dry. Back and again I had to wait yet another 15 minutes and I am not a patient man. Tried to talk myself in to keeping calm. I was in no hurry, had no deadlines yet fretted! Weird.

The Dentist is only a year out of college. She was apologetic and I tried to be gracious. Then she went to work. Cleaning, polishing after an injection for a local anaesthetic. Then she drilled and scrapped and gave me a filling having filed down my jagged tooth. In all about 45 minutes. I came out with a numbed mouth yet also grateful. I drove to Dundee to see my banker but there was no one available. Dundee was a ghost town, utterly extraordinary and few cars were about either. Back home and I lay down with a book for three hours and telephoned a friend.

Then I had some muesli eaten out of the non filled side of my mouth.

I needed a walk and took the high road with my grabber. I am meeting more and more acquaintances and regulars and we exchange salutations. I fortunately found a quiet copse and side lane and sat to listen to nature and look out over the Forth of Tay and the North Sea and across many miles of rolling Fife, with ploughing and planting going ahead. I passed a few sheep but the main field has been emptied and I am not sure where they have gone.

Back via the local park where I sat at the lake and watched a heron, two swans and moorhens and duck galore. I talked to a lady feeding the birds and somehow politics came up. She is very pro Ms Sturgeon, who as I write has been cleared of breaching the Ministerial Code, a major hurdle for her, now jumped. She will be destined to an election win on the back of a sympathy vote. I grow cynical.

Walking back home via the lower lake of the park I came across the Park's owner. We chatted about litter and again about Salmond and Sturgeon. They are a major topic up here. I think there is a growing pro Independence move mainly as an antipathy to Mr Johnson. It saddens me as I see growing nationalism as a threat to peace. I understand the desire for it but feel co operation is the better way. I am an EU man as, in fact, is the majority in Scotland so perhaps their Independence would enlarge the bond with the EU. Actually I understand little but I speak about it a lot! Typical!!

It is getting colder by the minute. I am off to lie down again. I did buy a large tub of fruit yogurt on my way back so I am unlikely to starve even with a lock jaw! Tonight I shall have a bath, a bowl of porridge and go to bed early. What a joy.