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Aileen
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Quote from: Iris on July 20, 2010, 05:19 pm
I hate dentists to, it stems from the school dentist I had when I was a child.  Every time I went he would either fill it or take it out, he was a bit of a butcher.  I have a great dentist now but I still have a feeling of dread every time I go and he is so nice to me I feel so guilty.  I am sure you will be fine Aileen, when you are in the dentist chair just think to yourself "I'll be out in another half an hour", it works for me every time. hug
Quote from: Daisy on July 20, 2010, 07:46 pm
Re the crown ..... I think they can build up a post to attach the crown to .... anyway, a bit late now, as you will have been.  Hope it wasn't too horrible.

House hunting down the tubes AGAIN.  It was a nice enough house and would have been gorgeous once I got done with it, but there is a building lot next to it and it would appear that they might be putting a pair of semis on it ... that would reduce the value of the house I was looking at - so, pass
My fear of dentists also started when I was a child.  I'd had two extractions of baby teeth with no problems, then a new dentist took over the practice (the only one in a small town), and he really was a butcher. The only time I saw him he went for an extraction saying "this won't hurt", pulled on the tooth (no local anaesthetic in those days) and something went horribly wrong.  The tooth didn't come out cleanly and it bloody well did hurt!  I started screaming, my mother began shouting at him and I think he began to panic.  Horrendous!

That was that as far as dentists were concerned and I never went near one for three years, when I was forced to go because my second teeth were growing in on top of my baby ones.

Anyway my current dentist is my third in about 4 years.  I've been three times now and she really does inspire confidence.  She put a temporary filling in and I've to go back on 4 August when the poor little thing will be removed, although quite frankly I wouldn't have been too bothered if she'd done it then and there, but it wasn't an emergency and she didn't have the time.

It was really wierd, though, because I'd been due to go for a check-up a week on Thursday.  My filling came out when I was having lunch outside and I had to go home to phone the dentist because I couldn't remember the name of the practice, but you can imagine my astonishment  when I picked up the phone and found a message on my call minder from the dental practice telling me that next week's appointment would have to be rearranged.  Strange coincidence!  Turned out she'd been due to fly to Paris on holiday but because of some French air strike her holiday had been put back a day.  [The French always seem to be on strike over something].

Daisy, house-hunting can be a nightmare, I know.  You think you've found your "des res", and then ... Frown   Good luck, though.

Iris, selling a house can be a nightmare too, waiting expectantly for people to turn up at advertised viewing times (or is viewing by appointment?).  One firm of solicitors I worked for as a secretary in the mid-1980s, used to get staff to do "viewing" - i.e. sit in empty properties for a couple of hours evenings and weekends, and wait for prospective buyers to turn up - and we got paid £10 an hour, cash in hand, for doing practically nothing.  A very nice little earner! Smile

Goodness, it's really warm and humid today.  However, I'm sitting here looking out of the window, which faces west, at a truly magnificent sunset - the sort you tend to get in this kind of weather.

Meanwhile, Daisy, my dear friend Graham is salivating over the photographs of the lovely bikini-clad Kim Sears in today's Daily Mail (two of which with Andy in them have already been posted on MW).  He's taking them home with him ...Very Happy
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janscribe
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I must search out Kim's photos - just catching up ont his thread and I sypathise with the house hunting Daisy. Os and I have decided it isn't worth downsizing and we're staying where we are ad-infinitum - it's home and there's space to have the family to stay when they have the time. As for dentists, I'm fine these days but earlier in my life I was terrified. Soon after the end of the war I need a filling or two - must have been baby teeth - Mum prepared me well but when I sat in the chair they put a mask over my face, I smelt the gas and I thought they were Germans trying to kill me (the newspapers were full of the awful stories and even at that age you heard some of the horrors even if you couldn't read about them). They extracted three teeth, all perfectly good, they had me mixed up with someone else. My Mum was furious and it left me with this silly fear. In later years, decent kindly dentists have given me confidence and I now take things as a matter of course thank heavens. Hope you continue to climb out of this latest bout of depression, Aileen and that you find the house you are looking for, Iris - keep us posted.
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Aileen
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^ Feeling pretty good just now, but what an awful few weeks!  And it had to happen during Queens and Wimbledon, which spoilt my usual enjoyment and made the "blue" feeling when it was all over much worse.  Still - only just over 2 weeks and it'll be Toronto. cmon yeah
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Quote from: Aileen on July 22, 2010, 12:19 am
^ Feeling pretty good just now, but what an awful few weeks!  And it had to happen during Queens and Wimbledon, which spoilt my usual enjoyment and made the "blue" feeling when it was all over much worse.  Still - only just over 2 weeks and it'll be Toronto. cmon yeah




Hang on in there Aileen.
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Aileen
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Quote from: Ruthie on July 22, 2010, 06:01 pm
Hang on in there Aileen.
Thanks, Ruthie.  I'm hanging on just fine at the moment.  The only blot on the horizon is the prospect of dental misery - just before Toronto. Rolling Eyes  Pity she had to be going off on holiday right now.
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Quote from: Aileen on July 22, 2010, 12:19 am
^ Feeling pretty good just now, but what an awful few weeks!  And it had to happen during Queens and Wimbledon, which spoilt my usual enjoyment and made the "blue" feeling when it was all over much worse.  Still - only just over 2 weeks and it'll be Toronto. cmon yeah
Very relieved to hear you're OK. Don't worry about the dentist - it will all be over very quickly and then there's tennis to enjoy. hug
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robbie
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Quote from: Aileen on July 22, 2010, 12:19 am
^ Feeling pretty good just now, but what an awful few weeks!  And it had to happen during Queens and Wimbledon, which spoilt my usual enjoyment and made the "blue" feeling when it was all over much worse.  Still - only just over 2 weeks and it'll be Toronto. cmon yeah




Toronto,s fab...get your self up to the hub on the C.N...tower ....great views. yes
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Quackers
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Awwwwww I miss Oh Canada. 
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Daisy
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Was just thinking about this thread and started wondering what everyone sounds like - apart from Mark & Andrew as we already know what they sound like.

So, starting with the originator, Jan, what do you sound like?
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Aileen
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Quote from: janscribe on July 22, 2010, 07:22 pm
Very relieved to hear you're OK. Don't worry about the dentist - it will all be over very quickly and then there's tennis to enjoy.
Um - the dentist kept being put off, but yesterday a filling popped out so I have no alternative but to go and see her now. nervous

I've no idea what Mark and Andrew sound like - how did you get to speak to them?

My accent is a bit of a mongrel.  My mother paid for me to have elocution lessons as a child in order to rid me of what she called "my appalling Fife accent", then I went to London for two and a half years and (so I was told) became slightly "Anglicised".

It's noticeably Scottish but in an educated sort of way, if you know what I mean, but I'm quite capable of lapsing into the broader Scots tongue.  A lot depends on the company I'm in.  I also pick up accents very easily, e.g. talking to Americans is a bit of a problem, so I suppose you could say I'm a linguistic chameleon.
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Daisy
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Quote from: Aileen on September 06, 2010, 09:27 pm
Um - the dentist kept being put off, but yesterday a filling popped out so I have no alternative but to go and see her now. nervous

I've no idea what Mark and Andrew sound like - how did you get to speak to them?

My accent is a bit of a mongrel.  My mother paid for me to have elocution lessons as a child in order to rid me of what she called "my appalling Fife accent", then I went to London for two and a half years and (so I was told) became slightly "Anglicised".

It's noticeably Scottish but in an educated sort of way, if you know what I mean, but I'm quite capable of lapsing into the broader Scots tongue.  A lot depends on the company I'm in.  I also pick up accents very easily, e.g. talking to Americans is a bit of a problem, so I suppose you could say I'm a linguistic chameleon.

You can hear and see Mark on YouTube and Andrew was talking about MW on the radio.
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eira_arian
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I tend to pick up the accent of people I'm speaking to if they're Welsh or Northern....otherwise, I'm pretty neutral. I believe Neil thinks I sound posh...
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Aileen
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Quote from: Daisy on September 06, 2010, 09:31 pm
You can hear and see Mark on YouTube and Andrew was talking about MW on the radio.
Thanks.  Must have a look at YouTube.

Quote from: eira_arian on September 06, 2010, 09:33 pm
I tend to pick up the accent of people I'm speaking to if they're Welsh or Northern....otherwise, I'm pretty neutral. I believe Neil thinks I sound posh...
For me the British accent that I pick up the most easily is N.Irish.  Went there for a 2 week holiday and came back talking almost like a native, but it got very difficult when I had to share an office for 2 years with a lady who came from Belfast.  I was constantly having to check myself.  The last thing I want is for people to think I'm deliberately trying to parody them.
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Quote from: eira_arian on September 06, 2010, 09:33 pm
I tend to pick up the accent of people I'm speaking to if they're Welsh or Northern....otherwise, I'm pretty neutral. I believe Neil thinks I sound posh...

I honestly can't place where I would put your voice now, it's been that long Shrug

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Quote from: Neil on September 06, 2010, 10:30 pm
I honestly can't place where I would put your voice now, it's been that long Shrug



It depends who I'm talking too lol I don't have a distinct regional accent- I don't think but everyone agrees I sound Scottish and places me as such automatically Very Happy However, my manner of speaking is normally quite proper, my mum didn't want me sounding like I was from West Lothian because the accents are awful lol and that's coming from a Geordie Very Happy
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