OK, so I almost passed, we where flying through the teeth;

“8 missing, 7, 6 occlusal* filling, 5 missing, 4 something gobbledygook, 3 - palatal filling …..”

So I’m sitting there, trying to count the number of teeth that are whole (it’s about two) and trying to remember as many of the terms as I can, just so I can find out what my mouth is filled with, and I missed the gobbledygook, which basically means I’ve got a small chip out of that tooth.

So now I’ve got to go back, and get it ‘rebuilt’, still that doesn’t sound too bad. I don’t know yet if that will involve needles, but it doesn’t sound like it will; I’ve just got to choose the filling type, silver is ?16 while white will be around ?45 pounds1. I’m not even sure if you can see the tooth from the front yet, so I will have to go find a mirror.

*Occlusal - the top of the teeth on the back teeth (the chewing surface.)

updated :
1: sorry i seem to have suffed a tempory bout of RAS syndrome

We’ve almost mastered sitting up now, not quite enough that we will step back and let her play with toys but enough that playing with toys is do-able before we get tired and fall over. As with all new things mornings are better for this, but surprisingly when we’re getting ready for bed, we seem to get a new spurt of energy (I always a bit unsure at this point as to whether or not she’s going to sleep) and we like sitting up when we get ready for our bath.

Brushing our teeth is still something we are getting use to, given that they are still very small we’re not to concerned, but Daisy likes to lick the brush more than chew it and it’s a little battle to get those two bottom teeth, but usually we manage.

We only have our two bottom teeth at the moment, they seem to have broken through, and then stopped growing again. Nathan our friend Lynn’s baby who is two weeks younger than Daisy by birthday, but probably more like two months in real terms (daisy was late, he was very early), got his teeth around the same time, but he’s just carried on growing them, and has loads now all of a reasonable length. I think we are going to take it slow, and do them one or two teeth at a time.

Well after pondering and pondering, Daisy’s high chair has finally arrived, so we can all stop braking our back when feeding. Previously we have been feeding daisy in her rocking chair, which was great when she couldn’t sit very well, but was so low down as to make some of the marathon feeding sessions a bit tedious.

Being gimmick people we now have our Tipp Trapp chair, which is super adjustable and goes from baby high chair all the way down to Adult trendy chair (whether or not it is trendy when Daisy is grown up remains to be seen). The main advantage of this chair, is that it makes it easy what ever the age to get everyone sitting at the table, and as we bought our breakfast table many months before Daisy was born especially for that reason, then really it seemed to be the only chair we could get.

Daisy loves it. Which of course is always important (and a relief), and now happily sits at the table for her tea, ok happily sat, we’ve only really used it once. The only down side we’ve found so far, is that daddies are a huge distraction when eating because they do the funniest things, and just can’t stop fidgeting.

We got our first piece of proper election literature this week, from the Conservative Candidate (Jason Steen), only one problem really he’s not standing in Wavertree, and we aren’t in Wavertree, we’re in riverside. So, in the answer to why you should vote for me sections of the leaflet.

• I grew up in wavertree constituency
  - I understand the issues in the area (but not the boundaries of the constituency apprarently)
• We are at a crossroads - Wavertree need a representative in Westminster with a vision for Liverpool future (I would argue they need one that knows where wavertree is)

I could go on, but I’ve already wasted enough time on the candidate of the wrong constituency for a party I would never vote for.

I think it’s time I declared a book amnesty, as people have pointed out, our online library has quite a list of things I am currently reading, and it’s out of date too. The problem is, I have to be in the right mood for books, and I go through phases, so sometimes (like the beginning of this year, when I read the first three hitchhiker books in a month) I rattle through books, and then I stop. The next time I of course pick up another book, so as a consequence our house is littered with half read books with random receipts, train tickets and occasionally even a book mark stuffed between the pages.

Well today, to coincide with the arrival of my newest book (see bottom), that I am declaring a book amnesty, any unread books can be returned to our library, and I don’t have to have any guilt about only half reading them, so to get this out in the open here are the books I am declaring ‘closed’

So Long and Thanks for all the Fish - Douglas Adams
a good book, but the Hichhiker books tend to tail off towards the end, and I just lost interest (also I stopped reading at the point in the night when daisy was feeding). I’ve tried several times since to pick the story back up, but it’s all self indulged in flying around islington having sex, and hippies with fish bowls, and besides I know how this on ends.

The Bookseller of Kabul - Asne Seierstadm
It never really grabbed me this book. It sounds good, and indeed it does start well, but it just didn’t speak to me. Yes it’s insightful, thought provoking and original, but I think it lost something in translation for Norwegian, or it’s just to high brow for me.

The Supernatrualist - Eion Colfer
Eion Colfer, is the author of my favorite children’s books, Artims Fowl, and I always pick up the other books he writes because the usually flow with the same style and comic bits* as the Fowl books. I did struggle through The Wish List (in fact come to think of it, I can’t remember finishing it). But this book sounded and indeed is a better read than that, it’s just not worked this time for me. I thought this would be a good commuter book, to read on the train going to and from work. Unfortunately the journeys actually to short for that, and as a consequence I’ve read the first few chapters and carried the book around in my bag for a few months since.

So this is where I am at, I’ve cleared my reading decks, the more observant among you will notice that this still leaves a few books on the “what Kevin is reading” list, but they are all reference books, and to be honest, can probably just be taken off.

So what’s my new book?

Living History - Hillary Rodham Clintion
Yes I know it’s quite a contrast to my normal reading, but what with the election coming up, I thought I might as well read what the next president of the united states has got to say for herself.

no doubt I won’t finish this book either, I’ll probably read about a third of the book and then get distracted, and the whole process will start again, but at least I’ve taken away all that guilt I feel when a see a book lying half finished on the table (ah the next step will have to be actually collecting the books and putting them back in the library).

this is where old the remote controls come to die; a small ‘tat’ shop just of the main street in shanklin, how they get her and where all the TV’s are I have no idea. Maybe they are brought on the tide from around the country to shanklin beach.

this isn’t a nike advert, it’s just somebody telling nike that they should jump on the chance to use it.

if you can’t get the file try an alternative location .

although, they should get him to take the shot again, so that the nike logo on the ball is strait