Toothache, Storm, Rain and Snow…

Is Time in a rush, or is it me getting slower and slower? – I think I’ll pass on trying to sort out the answer to that right now, or I’ll never catch up…

It did not help that on Wednesday evening I broke a tooth, which meant that on Thursday afternoon I had to go out in a rainstorm and spend the afternoon at the dentist’s. I’m very thankful that they managed to fit me in, though!

Actually, even the horrible weather sort of worked to my favour – as I had to take the bus; and not wanting to risk being late, I was early. (I had brought my Kindle – well wrapped in an extra plastic bag inside my other bag! – prepared to spend at least half an hour reading in the waiting room…) But as it turned out, when the nurse saw me, she called me in almost directly, as they had just had another cancellation.

As suspected, the extra time came in handy, since fixing my tooth turned out to be a Big Job. (The tooth in question already had a root filling, but to make a long story short I’m getting a new and better kind of cap fitted on it now. He did all the preparations and put in a temporary one yesterday; and I’ll get the proper one the week before Christmas.)

To the left: a reflex tag hanging on my backpack.
To the right: the same picture turned upside down…
(Put together as a collage in Picasa.)

Awful as the rainstorm yesterday afternoon was, at that point of day it was still ‘just’ rain (and wind) here – it had not yet turned to snow. I had on double layers of rainwear, though, and after the dental treatment, I sat down in the waiting room again… not leaving until I needed to in order to be sure to catch my bus…

Still, when I got home, it was off with all the cold wet clothes and into a hot shower! …

Before I went to bed at night, it had started snowing:

 

… and this morning I woke up to a frozen white world (which has not thawed during the day).

I’ve had no compelling reason to go out today though – so I’ve been perfectly  warm and snug inside.

However, from radio and TV news I learn that there have been major traffic problems in all of south Sweden ; hurricane winds along the coast, the Öresund bridge to Denmark closed, trains standing still again, roads blocked, trucks and buses and cars caught for hours on snowy roads (also near my town)… Worse this time than in the last storm earlier in the autumn, as it’s colder now.