🦷 A swollen gum and a free prescription 🚑 Humanity is still alive 🎣 Five days to go and another pike on the bank
I’ve had some pain in my gum for a day or so and, with my wife being an ex-dental nurse, when she saw that it had swollen, she contacted our dental practice and they said to go in right away.
I did and, after an X-Ray, the dentist wrote me a prescription for some antibiotics and I made an appointment to return in two weeks.
Signing the prescription I realised that, due to my age, I didn’t have to pay.
It’s the first time that I’ve had a prescription for years – decades even, I can’t remember – but it’s the way it should be for elderly people, who are often the ones that rely on health care the most.
Talking of those who are getting on in years, when we came out of the pharmacy – which was based in a supermarket – an elderly lady had tripped over the kerb and landed face down on the ground.
We assisted her husband, helped her on a chair and made sure an ambulance had been called before we left her in the capable hands of the supermarket staff.
She had a nasty-looking cut but hopefully after treatment she’ll be fine.
It was nice how several people came over to enquire.
Humanity isn’t quite dead yet, is it.
Including today, there are just five days remaining of the pike fishing season, with bait that is.
I was up early again, and on the bank of a small pool ready to go, with the dawn chorus still in full swing.
Before I even had time to set up the tripod, or pour my first cup of tea, one of the floats disappeared as a pike picked up the sardine tail.
That was the bait on both rods, which I fished towards the middle of the pool and just beyond.
There aren’t any depth – or otherwise – features so it’s a case of waiting for a patrolling pike.
Unless you happen to drop on one in the immediate area, of course.
Tackle: Wychwood Extremis 3lb pike rod/Wychwood Extremis 50 reel and Shakespeare 3lb rod/Regal X 4050BRT reel. 16lb Sufix Synergy line. Greys Prowla 30g and Drennan Zeppler 35g floats.
Nature notes: Song thrush singing. Two ring-necked parakeets in silent flight. Grey Heron in margins on the pool. A pair of wagtails in flight across the pool.