Freezer done and blimmin dentists

 We got both freezers defrosted yesterday and the up to date inventory done.  I found several packs of bread oddments, I'll use those to make a bread pudding for husband.  Nothing else needed to be thrown out, thankfully, although there were 2 tubs of turkey and chicken stocks that I'm fairly sure are from last year, so I'll be making soup with those next week to use them up.  The freezer de-icer spray certainly speeded up the defrosting, but it needed longer than the stated 10 minutes to work.....more like 20 mins, scrape out some of the softened ice, then another spray and waiting another 20 mins...several times.  It all got done quicker than our normal hairdryer method though.  Only one casualty - husband broke my wooden spatula - he normally breaks the plastic ones so thought using the wooden one would be better....obviously not!  He does go at things like a bull in a china shop.

I got a letter from my dental practice yesterday, saying they are no longer going to provide NHS services and wanting me to sign up to a monthly private plan, for which limited places are available, apparently (rubbish, that's just to panic people into signing up for it).  The closing date for signing up to this plan is (or rather, was) the 16th October - I received the letter on the 18th.  It wasn't dated or postmarked so I have no idea when it was sent - but we have been having ongoing problems with postal deliveries in this area for months (not enough staff) so it's possible the letter has just been sitting around in the sorting office for days.  We only really get post once or perhaps twice a week.  I don't know what I'm going to do about the dentist at the moment - I expect they'd bend the rules if I rang and told them I'd only just received the letter, but I'm not sure whether I want to be coerced into paying a monthly fee after having NHS dentistry all my life.  Having said that, I doubt whether I'd find it easy to sign up with a different NHS dentist - there are hardly any practices offering NHS treatment now, or accepting new patients on the NHS.  Oh, and the monthly fee for this new private plan has quite a lot of treatment exclusions, so I'd still have to pay extra for some things!  It's no wonder that all the dentists at my practice have very expensive cars (a top of the range, Range Rover and some bright yellow expensive looking low-slung sporty thing being 2 of them).

Odd weather yesterday - we had some really heavy showers, with periods of bright sunshine in between.  I want to get washing out on the line today, so hope that's possible, nobody likes wet washing hanging around on airers indoors do they?  I've done my little shopping list, so will be going to Aldi today.  I'm much better at sticking to the list nowadays - unless there's a really good reduction on something we always have, then it makes sense to get it.

I feel really tired this morning - a few nights of very disturbed sleep have caught up with me.  Oh, by the way Jayne - the sleep book arrived yesterday, not had chance to look at it yet.