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queen_ypolitaAfter finishing work on Thursday, I then spent a couple of hours hoovering, making beds, and dealing with a mountain of washing up before I headed out to the airport to meet my mum and sister. It was quite late when we all got back to my place and I don't think any of us slept particularly well. I had guessed as much and hadn't planned anything except chatting and unpacking for the morning. We had lunch at home and then we travelled to Oxford for the afternoon. The main event I'd planned was having afternoon tea at the Ashmolean rooftop restaurant, as afternoon tea had been one of my mum's requests for this trip. It was gorgeously sunny and the afternoon tea was delicious. We also did a little bit of browsing in the shops afterwards but it was just about too warm for that to be enjoyable.
On Saturday, we went to Windsor and visited the castle. None of us have any major interest in the royal family, but it was something to see and do somewhere that was relatively easy to get to. We also had lunch and did some little shopping.
Yesterday, we walked over to the university campus and spent some time wandering around in the Harris garden there, before taking the bus to town, doing a little bit of shopping and having lunch. Mum was initially a bit wary about the walking plans—her operated knee isn't always that co-operative—but she found it OK.
This morning, I saw them to the bus stop for the coach to the airport and then made my way to the office. Apparently, the coach journey and the first flight went fine, but checking up on things from afar, it seems their second flight ended up being a little delayed, so it'll be late before they're at home tonight.
On Saturday, we went to Windsor and visited the castle. None of us have any major interest in the royal family, but it was something to see and do somewhere that was relatively easy to get to. We also had lunch and did some little shopping.
Yesterday, we walked over to the university campus and spent some time wandering around in the Harris garden there, before taking the bus to town, doing a little bit of shopping and having lunch. Mum was initially a bit wary about the walking plans—her operated knee isn't always that co-operative—but she found it OK.
This morning, I saw them to the bus stop for the coach to the airport and then made my way to the office. Apparently, the coach journey and the first flight went fine, but checking up on things from afar, it seems their second flight ended up being a little delayed, so it'll be late before they're at home tonight.
Formula 1 2025 - Canadian Grand Prix
Jun. 16th, 2025 10:46 pmredfiona99In keeping with my previous rant about the cars being too wide for the tracks (https://fulltimesportsfan.wordpress.com/2025/04/16/formula-1-2025-japanese-grand-prix/), I present the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix as evidence. A Canadian Grand Prix where the most interesting thing is the tyre strategy is no kind of Canadian Grand Prix at all.
But, because of the unexpectedly high tyre wear, it was interesting. Well done to Ocon and Sainz jnr for making a single stop work out.
I am still trying to understand Ferrari's strategy. On the other hand, I think that puts me in good company, which includes one of their drivers. I try not to rag on the strategy team, because this is a huge step up from the indecisive years, but ... exactly how was that strategy supposed to work. Was the intention long, long, short? Leclerc wasn't in a position to do anything useful with that strategy given where he qualified.
In other people whose race was compromised by qualifying - McLaren. I think that crash was McLaren's fault as much as it was Norris's. You have two drivers going for the world title and you let them race. Now, thankfully due to the other teams having cars that are not as good, there's no real damage done, except to Norris's title bid and probably his spirit. For what?
This is why I will never object to teams using team orders.
After the race, it was fascinating how differently Toto talked to his two drivers. Although, could Bono sound more like a proud Papa - so adorable. Antonelli on the radio afterwards - also adorable!!
But, because of the unexpectedly high tyre wear, it was interesting. Well done to Ocon and Sainz jnr for making a single stop work out.
I am still trying to understand Ferrari's strategy. On the other hand, I think that puts me in good company, which includes one of their drivers. I try not to rag on the strategy team, because this is a huge step up from the indecisive years, but ... exactly how was that strategy supposed to work. Was the intention long, long, short? Leclerc wasn't in a position to do anything useful with that strategy given where he qualified.
In other people whose race was compromised by qualifying - McLaren. I think that crash was McLaren's fault as much as it was Norris's. You have two drivers going for the world title and you let them race. Now, thankfully due to the other teams having cars that are not as good, there's no real damage done, except to Norris's title bid and probably his spirit. For what?
This is why I will never object to teams using team orders.
After the race, it was fascinating how differently Toto talked to his two drivers. Although, could Bono sound more like a proud Papa - so adorable. Antonelli on the radio afterwards - also adorable!!
Trailers
Jun. 15th, 2025 09:09 amselenakProper Trailer for the third season of Foundation on Apple:
So looking forward to this! (Not least because of all the other depressing cancellation news.)
Teaser traiiler of season 3 of The Diplomat, featuring the next West Wing alumnus:
The Diplomat: more cynical than The West Wing, but still believing in the basic drive of people to actually work for what they see as their couintry's benefit in addition to themselves. Neither universe would allow for the poisonous cesspit currently governing not just the US.
So looking forward to this! (Not least because of all the other depressing cancellation news.)
Teaser traiiler of season 3 of The Diplomat, featuring the next West Wing alumnus:
The Diplomat: more cynical than The West Wing, but still believing in the basic drive of people to actually work for what they see as their couintry's benefit in addition to themselves. Neither universe would allow for the poisonous cesspit currently governing not just the US.
Fencers Club London Open 2019 and why you can't leave medical play/no play decisions to players
Jun. 14th, 2025 09:55 pmredfiona99Content warning: some mentions of COVID and sporting injury
The 2019 Fencers Club London Open does feature one of my better stories of utter sporting terribleness - it is down in the books as "the time I lost to someone with a broken rib".
Now J is one of my favourite nemesises (and is aware I call her that) but still.
Even now, nigh on 6 years later, I can still tell you what I did wrong - I rushed it, I pushed too hard, I chased the victory. I learnt from it.
As you can imagine, at the time, I was livid with myself.
Other than uselessness on the fencing front, it was a nice competition. It was at Rickmansworth School, or, to quote what I said to the Italian fencer who was on the same tube as me, "I don't think I'm rich enough to be here." For someone of my political persuasion, I spend too much time at posh schools.
One of the fencing parents ran the food and it was delicious bacon bun time (it remains an all-time best fencing food).
We will skip over L offering me space in his flat, forgetting that he was in France that weekend, sending me his spare keys in the post and banning me from putting the "cheese wedge" (stinky fencing kit bag) in his flat, me having to put it in the loft space, there being engineering work so I had to go a very round about route there and back and a train delay on the way back.
The bonus was because the competition was on the Sunday, I got to go to the Smoke and Mirrors exhibition (https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/W_vuwBQAACoA_SY2), which I really enjoyed. I really enjoy magic, but I was brought up with the Houdini and Conan Doyle story so whenever anyone claims ghosts or the supernatural, I go looking for the trick.
So, if we ignore the fencing, I had a great time, and even that wasn't too bad, because I'd deliberately done the FCL as a stretch competition. FCL the club is one of the best fencing clubs in the country so you can imagine what the standard was like.
It was also there that C told me my excuses for not doing the Welsh Open weren't good enough, which is why the Welsh Open (3rd strongest competition in the country) was the first competition I did after COVID. Too many fencers are aware that 'I dare you' works on me.
J, and her broken rib, do highlight that you can't trust athletes to make sensible play/no-play decisions. In fencing, at our level, we're amateurs. So no prize money (FCL is actually one of the few exceptions to this).
We pay to attend.
We pay transport and any necessary hotel costs because the competitions (unless you are a sabreur) start too early to get there easily.
And, for me and J, we did this, knowing we're not going to win.
J is a sensible person, normally. She's a vet tech (guess how the rib bust). She needs to be able to move. She really ought to have been at home recovering.
But she wanted to fence.
Imagine what that's like if you're a young man or woman with money on the line. That sort of decision should be in the hands of someone whose not got money on the line, because Bloodgate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgate) showed that team doctors can be suborned.
The 2019 Fencers Club London Open does feature one of my better stories of utter sporting terribleness - it is down in the books as "the time I lost to someone with a broken rib".
Now J is one of my favourite nemesises (and is aware I call her that) but still.
Even now, nigh on 6 years later, I can still tell you what I did wrong - I rushed it, I pushed too hard, I chased the victory. I learnt from it.
As you can imagine, at the time, I was livid with myself.
Other than uselessness on the fencing front, it was a nice competition. It was at Rickmansworth School, or, to quote what I said to the Italian fencer who was on the same tube as me, "I don't think I'm rich enough to be here." For someone of my political persuasion, I spend too much time at posh schools.
One of the fencing parents ran the food and it was delicious bacon bun time (it remains an all-time best fencing food).
We will skip over L offering me space in his flat, forgetting that he was in France that weekend, sending me his spare keys in the post and banning me from putting the "cheese wedge" (stinky fencing kit bag) in his flat, me having to put it in the loft space, there being engineering work so I had to go a very round about route there and back and a train delay on the way back.
The bonus was because the competition was on the Sunday, I got to go to the Smoke and Mirrors exhibition (https://wellcomecollection.org/exhibitions/W_vuwBQAACoA_SY2), which I really enjoyed. I really enjoy magic, but I was brought up with the Houdini and Conan Doyle story so whenever anyone claims ghosts or the supernatural, I go looking for the trick.
So, if we ignore the fencing, I had a great time, and even that wasn't too bad, because I'd deliberately done the FCL as a stretch competition. FCL the club is one of the best fencing clubs in the country so you can imagine what the standard was like.
It was also there that C told me my excuses for not doing the Welsh Open weren't good enough, which is why the Welsh Open (3rd strongest competition in the country) was the first competition I did after COVID. Too many fencers are aware that 'I dare you' works on me.
J, and her broken rib, do highlight that you can't trust athletes to make sensible play/no-play decisions. In fencing, at our level, we're amateurs. So no prize money (FCL is actually one of the few exceptions to this).
We pay to attend.
We pay transport and any necessary hotel costs because the competitions (unless you are a sabreur) start too early to get there easily.
And, for me and J, we did this, knowing we're not going to win.
J is a sensible person, normally. She's a vet tech (guess how the rib bust). She needs to be able to move. She really ought to have been at home recovering.
But she wanted to fence.
Imagine what that's like if you're a young man or woman with money on the line. That sort of decision should be in the hands of someone whose not got money on the line, because Bloodgate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodgate) showed that team doctors can be suborned.
Ghost in the Shell (2017 film)
Jun. 13th, 2025 08:58 pmredfiona99Catching up on film reviews
Wiser heads than me have written about how weird, wrong and bad it is to have Scarlett Johansson as Major Kusanagi, so I shan't be writing about that.
The thing that freaked me out was how things that the Major did in the animated film version became things that happened to her in this.
Obviously it's not a shot for shot remake but there's several scenes that are blocked to look and play out in really similar ways.
The example I'm going to use is from towards the end, so there's slight spoilers.
In the big end fight, in the animated film, already injured and knowing that interfacing with the wild killer robot guards will do her further damage, the Major chooses to plug herself in to solve the mystery.
In the equivalent scene in the live-action film, the robot plugs the Major into itself.
It's not the only example, but it's probably the clearest because of how similarly the two scenes are shot.
It gives the film (and the Major) a very different vibe than in the animated version, and I do not approve.
Batou is my favourite, but if Batou isn't my favourite in any version, that's probably a signal that I'm trying to tell you I've been kidnapped and am being held against my will.
Wiser heads than me have written about how weird, wrong and bad it is to have Scarlett Johansson as Major Kusanagi, so I shan't be writing about that.
The thing that freaked me out was how things that the Major did in the animated film version became things that happened to her in this.
Obviously it's not a shot for shot remake but there's several scenes that are blocked to look and play out in really similar ways.
The example I'm going to use is from towards the end, so there's slight spoilers.
In the big end fight, in the animated film, already injured and knowing that interfacing with the wild killer robot guards will do her further damage, the Major chooses to plug herself in to solve the mystery.
In the equivalent scene in the live-action film, the robot plugs the Major into itself.
It's not the only example, but it's probably the clearest because of how similarly the two scenes are shot.
It gives the film (and the Major) a very different vibe than in the animated version, and I do not approve.
Batou is my favourite, but if Batou isn't my favourite in any version, that's probably a signal that I'm trying to tell you I've been kidnapped and am being held against my will.
Wednesday reading
Jun. 11th, 2025 05:44 pmqueen_ypolitaFinished since the last reading post
Heaven on Earth, with lots of beautiful photos and other illustrations, and a brief history of the construction process of each cathedral included. Short chapters made it easy to read one chapter at a time, but on the whole, it was a bit bulky and heavy to hold.
Embers by Sándor Márai in Carol Brown Janeway's English translation of the German translation (the translator's name not included in the English edition) of the Hungarian original. That was something of a surprise to me, for the English edition to be a translation of a translation rather than of the original text. For about the first half, I rather enjoyed what seemed to be a slow build-up to a significant moment, but for the second half, I was getting increasingly irritated by what seemed to be a life wasted on getting hung up on something he was pretty sure had happened but he wasn't going to discuss, until now, but not really even now. The title did seem rather appropriate.
Currently reading
Nothing, so I obviously need to pick up something new.
Reading next
As above, at least I've got a few options on my shelves. I'm not sure how much reading I'll do over the next few days as my mum and sister are coming to visit.
Heaven on Earth, with lots of beautiful photos and other illustrations, and a brief history of the construction process of each cathedral included. Short chapters made it easy to read one chapter at a time, but on the whole, it was a bit bulky and heavy to hold.
Embers by Sándor Márai in Carol Brown Janeway's English translation of the German translation (the translator's name not included in the English edition) of the Hungarian original. That was something of a surprise to me, for the English edition to be a translation of a translation rather than of the original text. For about the first half, I rather enjoyed what seemed to be a slow build-up to a significant moment, but for the second half, I was getting increasingly irritated by what seemed to be a life wasted on getting hung up on something he was pretty sure had happened but he wasn't going to discuss, until now, but not really even now. The title did seem rather appropriate.
Currently reading
Nothing, so I obviously need to pick up something new.
Reading next
As above, at least I've got a few options on my shelves. I'm not sure how much reading I'll do over the next few days as my mum and sister are coming to visit.
Doctor Who: The War Doctor
Jun. 10th, 2025 03:56 pmselenakAbout a month ago, I bought the Big Finish episodes around the War Doctor in which the late John Hurt reprises his role. They're basically three episode storyarcs - "Only the Monstrous", "Infernal Devices", "Agents of Chaos" and "Casualties of War" - all set during the Time War. Now, because of the setting, the usual Doctor-Companion combinations are out, though the Doctor meets a likeable idealistic person in each of these three episode adventures (and can save some though not all). But the great charm of any Doctor Who tale are those relationships. So what did Big Finish do? It had the inspired idea of pairing up John Hurt with Jacqueline Pearce, playing, no, not Servalan, but a ruthless female politiician nonetheless, a member of the Gallifreyan War Council named Cardinal Ollista. She and the Doctor are the sole characters in all the four story arcs I've listened to, and the way their relationship develops was probably my favourite aspect in these stories.
Because this is the Time War, and this regeneration of the Doctor specifically is on a self loathing maximum while fighting it, Ollista is initially a good foil because she, who really does only prioritize Gallifrey and initially sees everyone not a Time Lord as expendable, shows that despite what he's telling himself, he is still the Doctor, he still has ethics and lines he won't cross and will fight for and have another way. But Ollista isn't simply an Evil McEvil megalomaniac, either, hence me saying "Gallifrey" and not "her personal power", and so the Doctor in the course of those stories develops a grudging respect for her while she while denying she does so finds herself defending, in the last story arc, precisely the kind of (non-Gallifreyan) people she in the first story arc would have dismissed as necessary casualties of war. Whether they argue or work together, all the Doctor-Ollista scenes are golden, and with both John Hurt and Jacqueline Pearce now gone, I am really glad they had the chance to work together near the end of their lives and create two more remarkable characters for us to appreciate.
Because this is the Time War, and this regeneration of the Doctor specifically is on a self loathing maximum while fighting it, Ollista is initially a good foil because she, who really does only prioritize Gallifrey and initially sees everyone not a Time Lord as expendable, shows that despite what he's telling himself, he is still the Doctor, he still has ethics and lines he won't cross and will fight for and have another way. But Ollista isn't simply an Evil McEvil megalomaniac, either, hence me saying "Gallifrey" and not "her personal power", and so the Doctor in the course of those stories develops a grudging respect for her while she while denying she does so finds herself defending, in the last story arc, precisely the kind of (non-Gallifreyan) people she in the first story arc would have dismissed as necessary casualties of war. Whether they argue or work together, all the Doctor-Ollista scenes are golden, and with both John Hurt and Jacqueline Pearce now gone, I am really glad they had the chance to work together near the end of their lives and create two more remarkable characters for us to appreciate.
Fic - Don't Look Back (1/1, Captain America gen)
Jun. 9th, 2025 08:26 pmredfiona99Title: Don't Look Back
Fandom: Marvelverse
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they themselves do. This is not fiction. No money being made from this.
Series: Soldier of Tomorrow
Characters: Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Avengers: Endgame
Notes: The third part of my Allegiance swap AU. The original prompt say bad guys as good guys and vice versa. I have decided to have fun. The first part is Out of the Ice and the second part is Price Willing Paid
Summary: It might feel like someone's punched a hole straight through him, but Bucky will support Steve in this.
( Bucky looked at Steve and knew exactly what he was planning. )
End notes: In much the same way as the second part was my favourite scene of Civil War, I really liked the way it felt that Steve and Bucky had a whole conversation in a glance when Steve went through the portal (I am on team "Bucky knew what he was going to do") which is why Bucky isn't shocked at the end. So this is my take on how that scene would go in this AU.
Fandom: Marvelverse
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters, they themselves do. This is not fiction. No money being made from this.
Series: Soldier of Tomorrow
Characters: Bucky Barnes and Steve Rogers
Rating/Warnings: Gen fic, spoilers for Avengers: Endgame
Notes: The third part of my Allegiance swap AU. The original prompt say bad guys as good guys and vice versa. I have decided to have fun. The first part is Out of the Ice and the second part is Price Willing Paid
Summary: It might feel like someone's punched a hole straight through him, but Bucky will support Steve in this.
( Bucky looked at Steve and knew exactly what he was planning. )
End notes: In much the same way as the second part was my favourite scene of Civil War, I really liked the way it felt that Steve and Bucky had a whole conversation in a glance when Steve went through the portal (I am on team "Bucky knew what he was going to do") which is why Bucky isn't shocked at the end. So this is my take on how that scene would go in this AU.
Birthday weekend
Jun. 8th, 2025 09:19 pmceitfiannaThis weekend was lovely, my parents and I headed out to Gloucester for the Peabody Essex museum, Hammond Castle and getting rained on a lot, but it was a nice break. Today started early and I ended up actually having a quiet day after getting on the road as I've felt sick most of the day. Which is annoying as today is my actual birthday but I'm from a family where birthdays spread out.
I have things that will make it last in great ways like a Lego to put together and money to spend on books and other fun stuff. I'm tired but hopeful as I watch the Tonys and head into my next year.
I have things that will make it last in great ways like a Lego to put together and money to spend on books and other fun stuff. I'm tired but hopeful as I watch the Tonys and head into my next year.
Saints Ahoy - Game 25 and the 2024 season to date
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:57 pmredfiona99Game 25 in 2024 was an unfortunate loss to Hull KR - https://www.saintsrlfc.com/matches/2024/first-team/saints-v-hull-kr-2024-08-24-2/?swcfpc=1
I don't care that Hull KR were the coming force, I don't like losing to them. Blake getting a yellow card and then Makinson getting a red didn't help, although I'm pleased that Whitby got his first try and conversion (and on his debut too).
The game-specific figures don't really add much so I'm not sharing them.
Whitby's two point-scoring moments move him to the bottom of the middle of the "who scores for Saints?" diagram.
( Under the cut )
That might be a bad sign that either Saints's scoring pool wasn't diverse in 2024, or that they needed to score more points.
When do Saints score?
( Under the cut )
That Saints didn't score while Blake or Makinson were off the pitch due to their cards means they maintain their positions on the "Who is present when Saints score?" chart.
( Under the cut )
The matrix chart is back to being dark in one corner (bottom right) fading as it goes up and left.
( Under the cut )
The network graph, interestingly, doesn't quite match. Whitby and Vaughan aren't present on the network graph, and Bennison is clearly outside the "frequently plays together" central blob, while he's in the second darkest area of the matrix chart. Davies has moved the other way.
In an amusing coincidence, both matches vs Hull KR in 2024 featured Hull KR having the same number of point-scoring moments.
( Bar chart under the cut )
When do Saints concede?
The evidence for "in the last 10 minutes" is really building up.
( Underneath the cut )
Who is present when Saints concede?
( Under the cut )
Understandably, because he is also present for the most scoring moments, Blake is top of this chart. There's a large drop off until you hit Lomax in second.
The "who is present when Saints concede" matrix looks like the top left quadrant of a Roman mosaic of the sun. If nothing else, it's pretty.
I think it looks like that because of how often Blake played with some of the "second most frequently playing" cluster of players (Robertson, Davies, Ritson, Vaughan, Stephens, Paasi, Batchelor, Knowles and Bennison).
The network graph is less spread out than equivalent one for point-scoring moments, with most players being in the central blob. The players that stick out are Wingfield, Walmsley, Royle, Whitby and Burns. Although there are a ring of players that are either coming out of the main blob or being eaten by it (Knowles, Bennison, Batchelor, Vaughan, Paasi, Stephens and Davies)
( Network graph under the cut )
I don't care that Hull KR were the coming force, I don't like losing to them. Blake getting a yellow card and then Makinson getting a red didn't help, although I'm pleased that Whitby got his first try and conversion (and on his debut too).
The game-specific figures don't really add much so I'm not sharing them.
Whitby's two point-scoring moments move him to the bottom of the middle of the "who scores for Saints?" diagram.
( Under the cut )
That might be a bad sign that either Saints's scoring pool wasn't diverse in 2024, or that they needed to score more points.
When do Saints score?
( Under the cut )
That Saints didn't score while Blake or Makinson were off the pitch due to their cards means they maintain their positions on the "Who is present when Saints score?" chart.
( Under the cut )
The matrix chart is back to being dark in one corner (bottom right) fading as it goes up and left.
( Under the cut )
The network graph, interestingly, doesn't quite match. Whitby and Vaughan aren't present on the network graph, and Bennison is clearly outside the "frequently plays together" central blob, while he's in the second darkest area of the matrix chart. Davies has moved the other way.
In an amusing coincidence, both matches vs Hull KR in 2024 featured Hull KR having the same number of point-scoring moments.
( Bar chart under the cut )
When do Saints concede?
The evidence for "in the last 10 minutes" is really building up.
( Underneath the cut )
Who is present when Saints concede?
( Under the cut )
Understandably, because he is also present for the most scoring moments, Blake is top of this chart. There's a large drop off until you hit Lomax in second.
The "who is present when Saints concede" matrix looks like the top left quadrant of a Roman mosaic of the sun. If nothing else, it's pretty.
I think it looks like that because of how often Blake played with some of the "second most frequently playing" cluster of players (Robertson, Davies, Ritson, Vaughan, Stephens, Paasi, Batchelor, Knowles and Bennison).
The network graph is less spread out than equivalent one for point-scoring moments, with most players being in the central blob. The players that stick out are Wingfield, Walmsley, Royle, Whitby and Burns. Although there are a ring of players that are either coming out of the main blob or being eaten by it (Knowles, Bennison, Batchelor, Vaughan, Paasi, Stephens and Davies)
( Network graph under the cut )
Weekend with cleaning
Jun. 8th, 2025 06:58 pmqueen_ypolitaMy mum and sister are going to come over for a few days towards the end of next week, so my weekend has largely been about tidying up, getting rid of junk, and figuring out what more I'll need to do next week. I also rearranged things on my desk, which wasn't really necessary for the cleaning or next week but something I'd been thinking about for a couple of weeks. The work laptop I've been using since April is a bit bigger than the older one was, so the way I had monitors and stuff set up before didn't work as well any more.
And I'll need to be on the phone to the dentists first thing on Monday. Starting from Friday afternoon, one of my molars has been super painful with any pressure on it and I strongly suspect I've got an infection at the root. Painkillers and eating very, very carefully have kept things tolerable—I don't like taking painkillers unless I really have to, and this has really been one of those times. I can't remember the last time I resorted to taking both ibuprofen and paracetamol at intervals. No idea how quickly I can be seen, but hopefully between tomorrow and Thursday. I might need to replan my office days though.
And I'll need to be on the phone to the dentists first thing on Monday. Starting from Friday afternoon, one of my molars has been super painful with any pressure on it and I strongly suspect I've got an infection at the root. Painkillers and eating very, very carefully have kept things tolerable—I don't like taking painkillers unless I really have to, and this has really been one of those times. I can't remember the last time I resorted to taking both ibuprofen and paracetamol at intervals. No idea how quickly I can be seen, but hopefully between tomorrow and Thursday. I might need to replan my office days though.