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ST. DAVID'S DAY
Posted Mar 1, 2004
March already.
If I were outside of Wales, I'd wear a daffodil or leek as a symbol of pride in my country; but here, the emblems partly symbolise unity against the English, the so-called "imperialist immigrants". This is one of the few places in the world where the English are hated more than the Americans. Americans are our friends, because many of them are descended from imperialist Welsh emigrants.
Fireworks are going off outside as I write this.
I once saw St. David's bones, in a crevice in the wall of the cathedral named after him. They looked well past their sell-by date. Who was the guy, anyway? Llewellyn was our last "true" Prince of Wales; Merlin and his dragons gave us our flag. But what did St David do for us? Perhaps he was a keen gardener.... 
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BUSY DOING STUFF
Posted Feb 27, 2004
Snow... old ladies... fish... Paradise Lost... forms and letters... neighbours... cats... amblongusses.
Trying to find a new direction. Going round in circles.
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DENTIST
Posted Feb 20, 2004
Saw the dentist this morning: a breezy South African chap, who whistled while he worked. He left my root in, in case I find myself a dentist who can put a cap on it. He yanked out the wobbly bit with pliers, ground away the spiky remains of my tooth, and covered the top of the root over with amalgam and white stuff. It's all very smooth and flat there now. I'm very pleased.
While I was there, I asked him what he thought of the NHS situation. He told me that the government has promised dentists they'll come up with a deal that will make NHS dentistry competitive with private dentistry; but most dentists are highly sceptical, and will be unlikely to take any offers until they've seen them working for other dentists. Not much hope of that.
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BAD TOOTH
Posted Feb 19, 2004
I am one of the many victims of the Great British Dentist Shortage, owing to the fact that dentists are paid peanuts on the NHS. I bit down on a piece of cottage cheese today, and my tooth split in half. (Lethal stuff, that cottage cheese.) I've got a big slab of tooth wobbling around, attached to the gum by a strip of skin. Lovely.
Emergency treatment on the NHS will take three days. Sod that for a lark! Tomorrow morning I'm paying a private dentist to sort me out.
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MEAOWRRR
Posted Feb 18, 2004
Well, the buds are coming out on the trees and the doves are cooing at each other and the female undergrads are mincing about in skimpy dresses and goose pimples. It is springtime in Wales.
Last night, something was prowling around our garden.
"MEAOWRRR," it stated. It had a deep voice; the sort of voice you don't want to mess with.
It said it again. And, emphatically, again. We could see nothing but blackness through the kitchen window. After an hour or so of this, I decided it was time to investigate properly. I opened the back door and peered into the gloom.
"Hello?" I said.
"MEAOWRRRrrr?" replied the Thing.
"Who's there?"
"MEEAAOWWWRRrr?"
"Um... have we met?"
A very small black cat trotted out of the shadows, rubbed its head against my leg, and stepped smartly into the kitchen.
"MEAOWRRR," she said to Gothly, and trotted back into the garden and disappeared. We could hear her meaowrring in the shrubbery.
Yup. It's springtime in Wales.
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