Sore Tooth Sunday Selfie

Hello, and welcome to our latest selfie Sunday! 

I shall skip the bit where I tell you about how bad the weather has been, and rather tell you about Mrs H's sore tooth. Not mine thankfully, but a decidedly cheeky molar that has been her personal burden for some years. Despite taking her previous dentist to task and saying how it hurt, she was told no issues. 

Thankfully, good karma bought a new dentist surgery in Much Deeping-Hollow and the dentist, Dr Ali, said after a re-exam and new X-Rays, that a filling had likely been leaking! Have it out, Mrs H advised straight away, and wasn't contradicted by Dr Ali, who said even with a crown on it the tooth would slowly rot away and cause more issues. 

I am not sure why Mrs H would warrant a crown, I mean, that is my place and position. But the day arrived, and after a necessary double dose of pain killing injections (Mrs H is a tough old bird and of the 5% that cant be numbed in the usual places (maybe due to too much sherry!)) she was soon safely numbed up and the tooth duly extracted. 

The down side is she is on soft food and warm drinks only for a few days as well as paracetamol (which does not cause autism) and Ibuprofen. It also means she is now unusually crotchety. So with that in mind I have been spending more time at Ol'Ned the gardeners place.

Normal service will be resumed in a week or so. Thankfully, I am not forced to eat mushy food, or drink warm tea!

Anyways, here is my not so numbed up selfie taken an hour ago by Ol' Ned.

 

Whatever room or cottage today finds you in, or however your teeth may feel, we hope you have a good week, filled with sunshine, love and joy.


We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin & Mrs H.

Sunday Selfie Time

Hello, and welcome to our first February selfie.

This week (as per preceding weeks) we have been busy looking after a stray cat and writing book 3 of our Chumley and Hudson Investigate series. Both have required a lot of TLC but in different ways. 

The cat, whom we in the locality have now called Thomas, spends a lot of his sleeping time on our combined doorsteps. He came to our attention some months back, doing what stray cats do: lurking in the background and getting on with life. But when our neighbour became concerned about some blood on his face, which turned out to be a massive burst abscess so big we could see into his teeth and jaw, we had to act quickly. 

With swift work, Thomas was lured inside one evening by our neighbour for a bite to eat, and he was then crated up and driven to the vet for emergency attention. Antibiotics and painkillers were administered and the wound trimmed to facilitate healing. Thomas returned to the hood and has seemingly recovered quite well over the last three weeks. The hole has closed enough that we can't see his teeth, but there is a scab/wound area that needs to heal, too. Thankfully, the cold and generally not-so-good weather has kept the flies away and Thomas resting up and eating to pass the hours of the wintery days.

A huge shout out to both George and Sammy for all they have done for Thomas the Cat. Such selfless kindness and prompt action deserves recognition and much good karma.

As to the book, Mrs H and I have been posting chapter progrss updates on Bluesky. We are heading into the final two/three chapters. But as this is the first draft, albeit a pretty complete draft, we know we have additional work to do. For instance, to keep the word count up and to add some extra peril and flavour to the scene, we need to add an additional chapter early on. This, of course, means we need to re-jig the wording of other chapters, before and after, to accommodate the changes. But such is to be expected. Writing Middle-Grade books has its challenges, but once you're in the flow it can be highly rewarding. 

If you've ever thought about giving writing a go, do try. Mrs H says that if folks can put together a good blog, and enjoy creative reading, then they can write. Confidence, speed and capability come from doing and not doubting.

And as Mrs H suffers from, amongst other things, a form of dyslexia, thankfully we have an excellent editor and an excellent typesetting publisher to assist. Plus, awesome Beta Readers to point out technical errors and silly mistakes. 

There are also some great writing software packages out there. Some are free and others, for a small sum, can do a lot of the editing and set-up work on your book for you. To the point they will even create the file to download straight onto Amazon to print a self publishable book. Such as 'Pro Writing Aid', 'Atticus', or 'Vellum'. Click on the blue text to link to the appropriate websites.

OK, enough of our writing and stray cat updates, let's get on with a selfie!

We are joining the Sunday Selfies, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue and their mum, Janet Blue, from the Cat on My Head blog in America. Click this sentence to visit Janet Blue's site.

 

Till Laters!

ERin