Hygienist woman had a good poke around in my mouth and then declared that although I had nice teeth, I had shit gums and that she was going to put an end to the gum disease. Mildly concerning, but my own fault for having not been to a dentist for five years, I suppose.

Anyway. I was poked and scraped and had all sorts of things done to my chops, after which I was told that Listerine was shite, my Actibrush was shite and that I should replace them both. Oh well. I think she was shocked when she pointed out that Listerine had alcohol in and I corrected her when she explained that was a bad thing.

So. That was a nice a £70 spent having my teeth cleaned. Admittedly, the polishing bit was quite groovy and I do feel clean and lovely afterwards. I've got to have another hour's work done (serves me right) and a filling, which is next week or something.

The irony is that when I was at school, we paid huge attention to our teeth and tooth decay. So now, I have fantastic teeth (one filling at 27 can't be bad) but the rest is fucked. Annoying, really. I should've been to the dentist more often. Oops! Anyway - I'm sure she's over-playing it anyway just to guilt me into flossing every day.

Am trying to work out what to do for the first Bank Holiday in May. Manchester or Stockholm. Hm.

Mild crisis about mouth/shags. Should probably do something about that. grepped last year for the word "shag" and noted 54 occurences. Hm.