En el dentista.

It’s not an alien, it’s an x-ray of my mouth with some high tech whirly thing that moves round your head. Until covid hit I would have twice-yearly checkups with my nhs dentist on visits to Blighty (or Plague Island, as known here). I was worried about fees here but I guess you get what you pay for, and the treatment by a cheerful, young and expert female dentist was excellent. She built up a broken tooth with filler and checked all the other teeth, spotting several problems which have never been picked up. Amongst them is a wisdom tooth which has no opposing upper one (I was born with only 3, which explains a lot), and she said that it would be biting my mejilla, or, after the nurse looked it up on google translate, is of course cheek. I had wondered why that was happening, but in decades of dental visits it has never been pointed out to me. I will go back next month to get that removed. This is the closest I’ve been to a human being I don’t know for nearly 2 years, but I didn’t find it scary at all. The practice was fully covid safe and I felt as relaxed as it’s possible to be with a needle and drill poked in your mouth. It was so much more modern and professional than what I’ve been used to. Five stars.