Never smile at a crocodile...

I seem to be going from one extreme to the other. Woke up this morning with a stuffed head - my cold has come back after yesterday's rainy walk (and will my parents accept responsibility for it? will they heck as like!). So I went back to sleep for a couple of hours. Now this is good in theory, I like to sleep when I'm ill, but bad in practice as it means I'm going to find it difficult to sleep tonight.

Still chasing dentists. And, by god, don't they fancy themselves! It is often reported here that it's difficult to find a good dentist and when you do, dental treatment is expensive. Well, they aren't joking. I've been quoted £55 and £95 just to have an orthodontist look at my teeth, £120 per hour for any work done plus £75 to £100 per retainer (I need two) and then only with a referral letter from my Argentine dentist! And everyone wonders why the British have such bad teeth.

I'll may be going abroad to get them done, I certainly can't afford to get any of the other work done in this country. In fact, dentists have come from Hungary to set up a mobile practice in the UK, charging about a third of the local prices (and even then, dental treatment is out of the reach of many people).

Shakespeare said (Second Part of King Henry VI, Act Iv, Scene II) "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." I think they would be swiftly followed by the bankers and dentists.