@administrator It is quite tasty - I've been there and tried it. But you have to beware of two Icelandic specials. The first is avoidable - grilled ewe's head. But the second comes along treacherously: In the supermarket shelves, it looks like smoked salmon. And if you buy it under this impression, you are in for a shock as soon as you open it. The smell can be described as cigarette smoke x train station bathroom...
it is in fact smoked fermented shark. STAY CLEAR!
@Trumpetb Dreams and their outcomes can be quite different... you mentioned Columbus. His dream was to reach India by going westward. He never got there - some fat ass unknown continent got in the way, but he never grasped that idea during his lifetime. The results of his dream were definitely not what he originally wanted...
@administrator We would be happy to donate some to Portugal - they are fighting wildfires there...
The garden is now fully inundated, and all the stuff we had stored underneath the house has gone aswim - firewood, garden furniture, some empty gas cylinders from the caravan, a full suite of upholstery and a set of antique massive oak furniture inherited from my grandparents... fortunately, everything is still inside the garden, not all over the place like some of the neighbours' stuff... Our garden now looks like this...
@administrator It is still raining heavily - it receded a bit over night, but now it is rising again...
For those who have not seen my post about our flooding in Austria yet (water, water everywhere), here is a pic taken this afternoon...
Almost the whole of Austria is a disaster zone just now, with continuous torrential rain over the last week... many communities are flooded, and the first deaths have occurred. Luckily, our house is built on stilts so that we can still hope to escape relatively unscathed; but at this moment, our garden is almost three feet under water.
Luckily, we were able to save about three weeks' worth of firewood - our only heating source! - all the garden appliances are now in the house, and we have filled every container with water, and the larder is full of dry and canned foods, and over the last weeks, we preserved many hundreds of jars of our home-grown fruit (cherries, apples, pears, peaches, apricot, grapes, plums and quince) which is good because our community is now isolated from outside. Fire service and army are helping or evacuating those that are not so fortunate... so if any appeals for help reaches you, be so good as to donate. Many people have already lost everything; and in many areas of Austria, you can't get flood insurance.
Our street
Our and the neighbour's garden
"Dad, where can I do my number twos now?"
Allegro optics in Meltham have done good work for the eyecare of musicians in the past, with their SeeTheMusic programme. Now, they have added a wonderful new service - eyecare for musicians in your home, or at your bandhall. Look out for Performing Arts Vision Care.
www.performingartsvisioncare.com
@Charles77 Nice. But what about the branding on the bell?
@Charles77 Better put pictures in. Then people can find out for themselves, and you will probably get some valuable knowledge about your horn...
@Bruce I've seen the x-rays - no doubt about it. No roots any more. As to gums/jaw - did not know the exact terminology. And yes, I know about the risks.
Just got this message from my friends at allegro optical - the Musicians' Optician:
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@ROWUK said in HELP! Wobbly teeth...:
@barliman2001 I have been there and after 4 years, am almost back to where I was before. In my case, an accident knocked the 4 front jaw teeth loose beyond repair. In addition, that started a chain reaction that ultimately resulted in me losing all of my teeth. There seems to be bacteria in the mouth just waiting for trauma.
Dentures were the first step and I learned all about dental cremes and other methods to "glue" them in. I learned that a cup of hot coffee dissolved those dental adhesives, so my diet changed during that time too. As the dentures were pretty much the same as the teeth preceding them, my playing was stable. After the gums all healed (6 months), implants were the solution. After that, the geometry of the mouth changed only by microns, but it still was a very dramatic change and it took a year to get back on track. Fortunately, that was during the Covid pandemic so I did not disappoint any of the people that book me.If you have any questions, let me know.
I'll contact you directly. Thanks.
Dear friends,
for the last few months, I have a growing problem: My two central lower incisor teeth have become wobbly. Very much so - in fact so much that it heavily impacts my playing. Most of the practising I do now is on trombone.
My dentist says that due to continuous pressure from the front (you know what THAT means) the tooth roots have decayed so much that those teeth are not anchored in the gum any more and only hold on by the skin of their teeth... Implants or a bridge are not an option at this time as my insurance will only pay for it in two years' time.
So, I now need some kind of temporary solution that will allow me to play to some extent while preventing my teeth from unlawfully absconding... any ideas?
A set of wine and water communion vessels (18th century, silver gilt) that were supposed to have been stolen by marauding Soviet troops but which I, during a job photographing the whole church inventory of a small parish church, re-discovered in a cardboard box behind the loo...
Our family teddy bear Wendelin who came into the family in the early 1890s... sitting in the rocking swan my grandfather made for me... I used to sit in there in a suit of plastic armor, listening to Lohengrin...
