I was up at the crack of dawn this morning, headed for a 9.00 dental appointment. It should have been the last appointment in the ongoing saga of my dental implant. It’s rather a good job I didn’t throw away the annoying denture that has been filling the gap in my front teeth since this treatment started. Half way through doing this final stage, actually fitting a crown to the dental implant, the dentist realised that the dental laboratory which prepares these things had messed things up and the crown could not be attached to the post implanted what seems like months ago. How very annoying!
The annoying denture! It will now have to go to Portugal with me on Friday. And then on our return I’ll go back to the dental clinic and have another go. These things are sent to try us!
As we walk around places, which we do a lot, Phil and I are often amazed at some people’s tendency to stop suddenly, usually to answer or make a phone call, in the middle of the pavement, quite oblivious to those who must narrowly avoid crashing into them. Thee are also those who slow down with their phone at right angles to their head and share a loud conversation with all and sundry. We used to think this was a singularly Spanish bad habit, along with stopping in a group to chat and to block the pavement or walking out of shop doorways without looking to see if there is anyone waited to be bumped into. But it seems to have become ubiquitous. Mobile phones have just made it worse.
A young man called Cameron Roh seems to agree with us that such practice is not just annoying but positively anti-social. He has taken to filming ‘bad walking etiquette’ on his mobile phone and shaming people, but not actually naming them, by posting his videos onto social media. He has a range of assessments of pavement misbehaviour. Some he regards as mild but riding hired bikes on city pavements ranks as a serious offence. Here’s a link to an article about him. For the article he seems to have been interviewed in London but he: was born and brought up in Ohio and lived for some time in New York.
Over in the USA, Zohran Mamdani, Muslim and Democrat, is the newly elected mayor of New York. I hear that Mr Trump is not best pleased and is thinking of reducing funding to New York City.
And here in the UK, the hero of the Huntingdon train stabbing turns out to be Algerian born Samir Zitouni, 48, from southeast London. He has worked for LNER for 20 years and was on the LNER Doncaster to King’s Cross service when the knifings took place. He is described as ‘critically unwell but ‘stable’ in hospital with his wife and child believed to be at his bedside in hospital in Cambridge.
It’s rather a good job he’s not been sent back to where he came from, as some people would like to see happen to people such as Samir. It must be quite disappointing for some of those who want us to be purely British, whatever that means!
Life goes on. Stay safe and well everyone!
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