Tuesday, April 30

I started the morning with a visit to Tero to see what he could do about the two teeth that lost their fillings in Kerala. Archana fixed them but, just as she prophesied, the fillings fell out again.

Tero agrees with her about one tooth. It has a vertical fracture that will make any filling impossible. That will jump out of my mouth in a couple of weeks time.

He suggests that with some unprecedented dental wizardry, using an unorthodox technique he read about once, he might manage to save the other tooth, or at least give it five more years in my mouth.

An hour later I stagger out.

As I arrive home I notice the odd number and range of vehicles our neighbours own. I photograph one of the Hummers and the thing it tows from time to time.