goodness, pop out for some root canal treatment and the whole place is refurbished, the old east wing reopened, though still no door labelled Biddies. I read somewhere that the greatest pain any human could endure would be root canal treatment when the anaesthetic didn't work, and am in a position to confirm this. I feel as if I have been hit in the face by a cricketing implement. Have to go back on Friday for further study, and in the meantime I am guzzling cocodamols like sweeties as the dentist thinks it may get worse before it gets better. He also apologised for the non-working of the anaesthetic - he pumped me full of it but said severely traumatised nerves sometimes reject it and this was what happened. Extremely<i/> painful. I suppose we are overrun with Polish dentists too by now, Vinny, but this one is a nice gentle Iranian.