Just finished my sit up and squat challenge for today. My brother Nathan challenged our whole family to 100 sit ups and 100 squats per day for the month of September. I’ve only missed one day so far, but did double the following day to make up for it. I had hoped to see a… Continue reading On the hunt for new chips →

Lovely day today spent going for a nice walk in the sun then out for a delicious Sunday roast in Milngavie. Someone sent me this photo during the week and I don’t know if this is true for all families but it certainly is for us: It’s also true for my own first and second… Continue reading 9 years first class service →

Celebrating our 5th wedding anniversary today which apparently is the ‘wooden’ year. I can think of some other words to describe this year but we’ll ‘stick’ with that I suppose !🤷🏻‍♂️ I got Raashi a wooden chess set as a gift and so far she’s 2-0 up. I’ve never actually played chess before though so… Continue reading 5 🖐🏼 →

We were back to our normal rota at work this week after an initial period of opening just 1 surgery per day. It was a good week and we’re in the really fortunate position of having a much bigger place now to accommodate us all and allow us to follow the social distancing guidelines even… Continue reading Fancy a swim? 🏊 →

This week I’ve absolutely made the most of the ‘eat out to help out’ scheme. First of all we had a team meeting on Monday at work so we all had a McDonalds lunch. Obviously. I was then off work on Wednesday so after dropping the kids to nursery Raashi and I went to a… Continue reading Free Lunch! →

It’s taken a long time to get to this point so it’s a huge relief for us to finally open our new practice. Planning started in early 2017 when I first dropped off a few letters to properties along Springburn and Kirkintilloch road that I thought had the potential to become a dental practice. Ann… Continue reading WE ARE OPEN! →

Last week I enjoyed my first visit to the pub since February with a few friends. You may have noticed I took a week off from writing my blog too – purely co-incidental 😏 I was actually quite impressed with our local pub to be honest. They’d removed more than half of their tables, had… Continue reading Open next week! 🤞🏼 →

Unfortunately our planned opening date of 15th July has been delayed and we’re now aiming for the 27th. It’s frustrating as we’re excited to open but we’re having some trouble getting inspections organised. I was going a bit bald on top anyway but that seems to have accelerated lately, fingers crossed it’s all sorted for… Continue reading Wall ideas welcome! →

I mentioned in my last blog post that we’d hopefully have a date for opening pretty soon. We’re hoping for that to be on the 15th July now so fingers crossed all our dominoes fall into place for that to happen. Closer to the time we’ll be contacting patients to book appointments from our priority… Continue reading The final straw! →

It’s great to hear that today’s the third day in a row with no Covid-19 deaths in Scotland. Hopefully that continues as we go into phase 3. I think we’re all aware of the risk of a second wave and how devastating that would be to see tougher restrictions come back. It is a bit… Continue reading Fridge-gate 2020 →

What other way is there to start Father’s day off than with a lie in! My day got even better when the kids all fancied a nap at the same time so we had our McD’s in the car rather than risk waking them up: I’d love to be getting back to work tomorrow like… Continue reading Happy Father’s Day →

Finally got everything out of our old premises this week and said our final goodbye’s to 1347B Springburn Road. The 3D Xray machine was the last thing to go and I’m glad it wasn’t me that had to move it. The thing weighs a tonne so fair play to the engineers involved. We (the family)… Continue reading Netflix and Drill →

Back to work for dentists in England tomorrow – I’m hoping it goes well for them although it’s a shame that they only found out recently on BBC news and have since been scrambling for PPE and to finalise their new protocols, I’ve read that only a third of practices are in a position to… Continue reading Wet suit it is.. →

How nice have the past few days been?! 😎 Nicola Sturgeon picked a cracking weekend to lift the lockdown – it was great to finally be able to see friends & family again (not all at the same time obviously). Like most we’ve spent the last couple of days bbq’ing, sunbathing and paddling pooling. Funny… Continue reading Freedom 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 →

This week we received some guidance from the chief dental officer for Scotland about the routemap to re-opening dental practices. It ties in with the Scottish Government one that i’m sure you have all seen by now. I am also sure you are now aware of the urgent dental care hubs that have been set… Continue reading F***ing Gazelles →

Groundhog day #56. Not great weather today so seems we’re stuck inside. At least it might give me a chance to finish my book off as I’m nearly there with it. One of my new years resolutions was to read at least 1 book per month and despite getting off to a flyer by doubling… Continue reading Groundhog Day →

So Mr Johnson and Mrs Sturgeon have now provided us with the update that I think we all expected anyway; Lockdown goes on as is for now. Most days have been groundhog days for me, enjoying the sun when possible, reading, playing with the kids, walking the dog, eating Wotsits and watching TV. Seems like… Continue reading Adios 1347b →

This week we enter week #6 of lockdown and come to the governments review date on the 7th May. It’ll be interesting to see at that point what the plan is, as we’ve had a lot of hints about easing the lockdown measures. I think I, along with a lot of others, naively thought at… Continue reading QuaranTea anyone? →

As you will be aware by now we are moving our premises and the official opening at the new location was supposed to happen in mid April. Obviously with the pandemic that’s all been put on hold just now. In terms of the building works we’re still 1 staircase short but other than that most… Continue reading VIDEO TOUR OF TWDC →

Spent a lot of today dozing in and out of sleep in the garden. What a day! Really tried my best to get up and do some exercise but the furthest I got was to get my training gear on then I went back to sit in the exact same spot. I did manage to… Continue reading Pain free home dentistry →